Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 APRIL 1894

ARDROSSAN – ACCOMMODATION TO LET

To let furnished, that handsome and commodious house known as “GLEN FOOT,” containing 3 public rooms, 13 bed rooms, servants’ room, bath rooms, pantries, kitchen, and conservatory. There is also a good stable and coach-house and a large garden. Extent of ground, 2 acres 3 roods and 34 poles.

Apply to Jameson, McClae & Baird, writers, 149 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, or to John Stewart & Gillies, writers, 204 West George Street, there.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 APRIL 1892

ARDROSSAN FREE CHURCH – MEMORIAL OF THE LATE REV. JOHN STEWART

A bronze medallion portrait of the late Rev. John Stewart, which has been placed in the porch of Ardrossan Free Church, was unveiled on Saturday afternoon.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 APRIL 1893

NEW STEAMER FOR THE SCOTCH AND IRISH MAIL SERVICE

The Royal Mail steamer HOUND, which has been built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited for Messrs G. & J. Burns’s accelerated mail service between Ardrossan and Belfast, went on her official trials on Saturday.

The contract speed was easily maintained, the mean on the measured mile being 15.10 knots.

The vessel, which has been fitted with every convenience, will be placed at once on the Ardrossan station, where during the summer she will run in conjunction with the same company’s S.S. HARE.

The superior speed and comfortable accommodation of the HOUND will doubtless make the service more popular than ever.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1899

DEATH

McKENZIE: AT 18 Winton Street, Ardrossan, on 8th instant, Kenneth McKenzie, aged 53.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1895

ARDROSSAN LANDWARD COMMITTEE

At the meeting of Landward Committee held in Old Town Hall, Saltcoats, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Alexander Hamilton was appointed to represent the committee on the Parish Council.

The newly elected body met as provisional committee last night. Mr. John Morris was elected chairman.

The first meeting of the Parish Council was fixed for Thursday, 16 May, to be held in Town Hall, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1898

COWARDLY ASSAULT

At Ardrossan Burgh Court yesterday morning – before Provost Young – JOHN GILMOUR, labourer, residing in Harbour Lane, was sentenced to pay a fine of £1 or suffer 14 days’ imprisonment, for assaulting an old man named Thomas McCallister in Harbour Lane on Wednesday evening last.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1892

THE EGLINTON DOCK OPENING

Considerable preparations have been made to celebrate this event in a fitting manner. To take part in the trades’ procession bands have drawn from various towns and villages throughout Ayrshire, and due regard has been paid to the decoration and illumination of the town.

The first ship to pass into the dock, after Lady Gertrude Montgomerie has cut the ribbon is Messrs Burns’s Royal Mail steamer MASTIFF.

[George Ardrossan]

12 APRIL

NEWSAGENTS TO STOP DELIVERIES
Because of the regulation governing the employment of children under fifteen, newsagents meeting in Ayr last night decided to stop the delivery of morning and evening newspapers from 23 April. The decision, it was stated, will affect the majority of newsagents in the town. Newsagents in Kilmarnock, Troon, Girvan and Ardrossan have already decided to stop deliveries.
Glasgow Herald, 12 April 1949
George

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 APRIL 1894

ARDROSSAN – ACCOMMODATION TO LET

To let furnished, that handsome and commodious house known as “GLEN FOOT,” containing 3 public rooms, 13 bed rooms, servants’ room, bath rooms, pantries, kitchen, and conservatory. There is also a good stable and coach-house and a large garden. Extent of ground, 2 acres 3 roods and 34

My neice now owns the Coachouse.

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Lovely location to live. What a morning walk! Would I turn left or right at the end of the driveway Big decision!

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 APRIL 1897

MARRIAGE

COWIE – HAMILTON: At the Alexandra Hotel, Glasgow, on the 12th instant, by the Rev. J. D. McCall, Ardrossan, assisted by the Rev. John Hamilton, brother of the bride, Captain Robert K. Cowie, S.S. “Clan Mackinnon,” to Martha, youngest daughter of the late Angus Hamilton, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 APRIL 1892

DEATH

WYLLIE: At 142 Quarry Lane, Ardrossan, on April 11, aged 82, William Wyllie, of Corsehill, Kilwinning.