Re: Looking Back - Herald files
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 10:55 am
From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on July 11, 2007
100 YEARS AGO July 12, 1907
A SOMEWHAT rare event for Saltcoats, a church wedding, took place on Tuesday, the contracting parties being Mr Lewis Fullerton, Hamilton Street, and Miss J Greenhill, EU Church manse.
BUSINESS people in Stevenston will be pleased to learn that a telephone public call office has been opened in the shop of Messrs Lawson Bros, Shore Road.
ARDROSSAN Town Council have complained to the G&S W Railway Company that vehicular traffic is being delayed at the level crossing in Princes Street
KILWINNING Town Council have agreed to proceed with the erection of a town hall on a site at the Byres. The estimated cost is £1851 Including furnishing and fittings.
MISS Janette Logan Kirkwood, Saltcoats, has been granted a certificate by the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
ON Friday a social gathering was held by members of Erskine EU Church, Saltcoats, to make a marriage presentation to the Rev WM Bingham.
ARDROSSAN bowlers (James Cook. RH Dunlop. W Tannock, J Barclay. J Lambert, JP Wallace) beat Saltcoats bowlers (J Breckenridge, A McIntyre, G Armour, J Hamilton, A Thom, J Yuille) by a majority of six shots.
50 YEARS AGO July 12, 1957
ARDEER Factory Safety Fuse Canteen was packed on June 28 when workers in that department gathered to say goodbye to a popular foreman. Mr John Arnott, who was retiring that day after 42 years' service with the Company. Even before the meeting, Mr Amott had been the recipient of a gift when as a complete surprise to him, girls in spinning and yarn winding sections presented him with a Parker Pen and Pencil Set.
In the canteen, Mr MG Thomson, chief superintendent of the department, recalled that Mr Arnott was one of the stalwarts who came from Regent Factory, Linlithgow, which he joined In September, 1915, and that he was one of that fine body of men who came from that Factory in 1935 to lay the foundations of Ardeer Safety Fuse department. Mr Thomson presented Mr Amott with the Company Scroll recording his long service. For this company gift Mr Amot had chosen a table, which was too bulky to be presented at the meeting.
Mr James McKenzie, 10 Paisley Street, Ardrossan, and his wife, were injured when their motorcycle was involved in a road accident on the Maybole Road, four miles south of Ayr, last Sunday. They were taken to Ayr County Hospital. Mr McKenzie suffered a leg injury and Mrs McKenzie received head injuries.
THE Housing Factor has reported to Saltcoats Town Council that certain gardens in housing schemes are not up to standard, and the Housing Committee have decided to visit some gardens and thereafter decide what steps are necessary to effect an improvement
TRAFFIC in Main Street, West Kilbride, was dislocated for a few hours on Monday when a large commercial van broke down and all buses and heavy vehicles had to be diverted via the Glen Road and Alton Street.
LAST Saturday saw the retiral of a former Ardrossan railway goods guard, Gabriel Haddon, 6 Smith Street, Ayr. He began his railway life at Ardrossan on February 3, 1919. During the depression he moved to Ayr and resided there until his retiral last Saturday. Changes that have taken place during his service included the passing out of the solid wooden buffers and the disc used as a tail lamp. Mr Haddon was popular with his fellow workers and he had a great sense of humour. His fellow workers wish him every happiness in his retirement.
25 YEARS AGO July 23, 1982
AFTER a four month tour of duty in the Falklands Islands, West Kilbride man Angus McMillan, returned home this week safe and sound. Twenty-two-years-old Angus was welcomed by his parents, Mr and Mrs Archie McMillan at their home in 10 Meadowfoot Road, West Kilbride. He has been a member of 45 Royal Commando for six years.
A FAILURE in a public address system meant a big disappointment for 20 animal lovers at South Beach on Wednesday. For the breakdown In the equipment meant that the scheduled pet show, which they had all high hopes of winning, had to be postponed. Beach Leader John McCann, was the man who had to break the bad news to the crowd. And although the system was finally fixed, it was too late to save the competition. This was a blow for all the entrants, and the disappointment in the face of 15-year-old Lilian Fleming. Elm Park, Ardrossan, and her pet. Radar, sum up their feelings. The organisers hope to reschedule the show for about two weeks.
AN ambitious £200,000 scheme which will transform the appearance of Countess Street in Saltcoats, has just been launched by Cunninghame District Council and the Scottish Development Agency. The established shopping street has felt the pinch during the past few years and now the two bodies intend reversing its decline by encouraging shoppers to retum. The three stage programme to upgrade Countess Street will begin in September and the whole process will cost £200,000.
Shop owners are being asked for agreement to the work. They will only have to pay for essential repairs while the SDA will smarten up their shop fronts for them. Phase one will begin with the CDC-owned Town Hall and two adjoining premises having their fronts painted. This work is expected to be completed in six to eight weeks. The remainder of the shops, including those on the corners of other streets, will get their facelift in phase two of the project, which is due to begin at the end of October or the beginning of November this year. With a one month break, so as not disturb Christmas shoppers, the work is due to be completed at the beginning of 1983.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original
100 YEARS AGO July 12, 1907
A SOMEWHAT rare event for Saltcoats, a church wedding, took place on Tuesday, the contracting parties being Mr Lewis Fullerton, Hamilton Street, and Miss J Greenhill, EU Church manse.
BUSINESS people in Stevenston will be pleased to learn that a telephone public call office has been opened in the shop of Messrs Lawson Bros, Shore Road.
ARDROSSAN Town Council have complained to the G&S W Railway Company that vehicular traffic is being delayed at the level crossing in Princes Street
KILWINNING Town Council have agreed to proceed with the erection of a town hall on a site at the Byres. The estimated cost is £1851 Including furnishing and fittings.
MISS Janette Logan Kirkwood, Saltcoats, has been granted a certificate by the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
ON Friday a social gathering was held by members of Erskine EU Church, Saltcoats, to make a marriage presentation to the Rev WM Bingham.
ARDROSSAN bowlers (James Cook. RH Dunlop. W Tannock, J Barclay. J Lambert, JP Wallace) beat Saltcoats bowlers (J Breckenridge, A McIntyre, G Armour, J Hamilton, A Thom, J Yuille) by a majority of six shots.
50 YEARS AGO July 12, 1957
ARDEER Factory Safety Fuse Canteen was packed on June 28 when workers in that department gathered to say goodbye to a popular foreman. Mr John Arnott, who was retiring that day after 42 years' service with the Company. Even before the meeting, Mr Amott had been the recipient of a gift when as a complete surprise to him, girls in spinning and yarn winding sections presented him with a Parker Pen and Pencil Set.
In the canteen, Mr MG Thomson, chief superintendent of the department, recalled that Mr Arnott was one of the stalwarts who came from Regent Factory, Linlithgow, which he joined In September, 1915, and that he was one of that fine body of men who came from that Factory in 1935 to lay the foundations of Ardeer Safety Fuse department. Mr Thomson presented Mr Amott with the Company Scroll recording his long service. For this company gift Mr Amot had chosen a table, which was too bulky to be presented at the meeting.
Mr James McKenzie, 10 Paisley Street, Ardrossan, and his wife, were injured when their motorcycle was involved in a road accident on the Maybole Road, four miles south of Ayr, last Sunday. They were taken to Ayr County Hospital. Mr McKenzie suffered a leg injury and Mrs McKenzie received head injuries.
THE Housing Factor has reported to Saltcoats Town Council that certain gardens in housing schemes are not up to standard, and the Housing Committee have decided to visit some gardens and thereafter decide what steps are necessary to effect an improvement
TRAFFIC in Main Street, West Kilbride, was dislocated for a few hours on Monday when a large commercial van broke down and all buses and heavy vehicles had to be diverted via the Glen Road and Alton Street.
LAST Saturday saw the retiral of a former Ardrossan railway goods guard, Gabriel Haddon, 6 Smith Street, Ayr. He began his railway life at Ardrossan on February 3, 1919. During the depression he moved to Ayr and resided there until his retiral last Saturday. Changes that have taken place during his service included the passing out of the solid wooden buffers and the disc used as a tail lamp. Mr Haddon was popular with his fellow workers and he had a great sense of humour. His fellow workers wish him every happiness in his retirement.
25 YEARS AGO July 23, 1982
AFTER a four month tour of duty in the Falklands Islands, West Kilbride man Angus McMillan, returned home this week safe and sound. Twenty-two-years-old Angus was welcomed by his parents, Mr and Mrs Archie McMillan at their home in 10 Meadowfoot Road, West Kilbride. He has been a member of 45 Royal Commando for six years.
A FAILURE in a public address system meant a big disappointment for 20 animal lovers at South Beach on Wednesday. For the breakdown In the equipment meant that the scheduled pet show, which they had all high hopes of winning, had to be postponed. Beach Leader John McCann, was the man who had to break the bad news to the crowd. And although the system was finally fixed, it was too late to save the competition. This was a blow for all the entrants, and the disappointment in the face of 15-year-old Lilian Fleming. Elm Park, Ardrossan, and her pet. Radar, sum up their feelings. The organisers hope to reschedule the show for about two weeks.
AN ambitious £200,000 scheme which will transform the appearance of Countess Street in Saltcoats, has just been launched by Cunninghame District Council and the Scottish Development Agency. The established shopping street has felt the pinch during the past few years and now the two bodies intend reversing its decline by encouraging shoppers to retum. The three stage programme to upgrade Countess Street will begin in September and the whole process will cost £200,000.
Shop owners are being asked for agreement to the work. They will only have to pay for essential repairs while the SDA will smarten up their shop fronts for them. Phase one will begin with the CDC-owned Town Hall and two adjoining premises having their fronts painted. This work is expected to be completed in six to eight weeks. The remainder of the shops, including those on the corners of other streets, will get their facelift in phase two of the project, which is due to begin at the end of October or the beginning of November this year. With a one month break, so as not disturb Christmas shoppers, the work is due to be completed at the beginning of 1983.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original