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GLASGOW HERALD
26 NOVEMBER 1928

RUGBY
AYR, 13 POINTS v. ARDROSSAN ACADEMICIALS, 3 POINTS
At Old Racecourse, Ayr

Ardrossan Academicals team: -

E. Davies; J. W. McNaught; R. Jones; F. J. Moore; A. Crawford; J. Lambert; P. P. Graham, J. G. Martin; A. Shedden; A. Baxter; D. McKinnon; A. S. McLellan; C. Boyd; J. Hunter, and R. Barbour.
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26 NOVEMBER

RADIOLOGIST INVESTED WITH COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

At a recent investiture at Buckingham Palace, Brigadier John Struthers Fulton, M D, received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his work with the Royal Army Medical Core during the war. He took part in the Tobruk siege and also served in Greece. In addition, he organised military hospitals in various theatres. Born at Stevenston in 1897, he was educated at Ardrossan Academy and Edinburgh University. After holding various positions in Edinburgh, be became a radiologist at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. He is now at the Radium Institute, Liverpool.
The Scotsman, 26 November 1946

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George Ardrossan wrote: Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:41 pm He took part in the Tobruk siege and also served in Greece.
This is next to my grandkids primary school in Albert Park in Melbourne. In our early days in Melbourne (1964) when pubs shut at 6pm we used to go to the Rats of Tubruk building there and have a great Saturday night dance - it was a well known place for three towners to go for a Saturday dance back then.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 NOVEMBER 1918

DEATH ON SERVICE

Died at sea of pneumonia, on 13th October, 1918, aged 30 years, Sergeant JAMES CUNNINGHAM, American Army, youngest son of Matthew Cunningham, late of Parkcrest, Lanark – inserted by his brother Robert, 1 Westbank Quadrant, Glasgow, late of Ardrossan.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 NOVEMBER 1933

Sir,

ERRONEOUS STATEMENT

In his letter published 26 November, the Rev. A. Morrison makes a very erroneous statement. He says that the Church of Scotland “summons a regiment of soldiers to wait upon her and escort her to the Assembly Hall.” This is a doubly false statement. First, there is no regiment but merely a few mounted men. Second (and this is the vital point), it is not the Church that is waited upon but the Lord High Commissioner, as representing the King.

The Assembly does not ask that the Commissioner be so escorted. It merely refrains wisely from interfering with any customary arrangements made by the usual civil authorities in honour of a royal representative who happens to be in the city. Moreover it is expressly laid down in the Plan of Union that “neither the Sovereign nor the Lord Commissioner as such is a constituent member of the assembly.”

Mr. Morrison is a minister of the Church of Scotland. He ought to know better.

A proverb occurs: “It’s an ill bird that fyles its ain nest.”

I am etc.
R. M. ADAMSON,
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 NOVEMBER 1918

WAR MEMORIAL

At a public meeting in Ardrossan it was decided to erect a memorial to the men from the town who have fallen in the war, and also to honour the men who have received decorations for gallantry.
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28 NOVEMBER 1845

SHIP NEWS

Arrived in the Clyde on Friday, the LORD MONTGOMERIE, Kelso, from Cres Stadt.

On the 20th ultimo, drove ashore at Loch Ullapool, with both anchors out, and had to discharge cargo; reloaded and sailed again on the 16th instant. On the 19th, encountered a tremendous sea, which completely swept the deck, carrying away boats, caboose, winch, bulwarks, and stanchions; the mate and four of the crew were washed overboard, but the mate was again swept back on deck, and saved, although much bruised.
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28 NOVEMBER 1841

THE DOUGLASTOWN

The vessel DOUGLASTOWN, on a voyage from Ardrossan to Marseille, France, was driven ashore at Falmouth, Cornwall.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1888

DEATH

KERR: In hospital, at Bremerhaven, on the 20th instant, Robert Kerr, master mariner, late boatswain on board the S.S. “CITY OF LINCOLN”; was a native of Ardrossan, where his friends are supposed to reside.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1885

MARRIAGE

FRASER – MEARNS: At 8 Barr Square, Ardrossan, on the 27th instant, by the Rev. John Graham, Stevenston Parish Church, John H. Fraser, marine engineer, to Mary Erskine, eldest daughter of J. H. Mearns, publisher.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1888

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS ST. JOHN’S ROYAL ARCH LODGE, No. 320

The annual meeting of this lodge was held on Monday evening, when the following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year, viz: -

R.W.M., Charles Murchie, merchant;
J.P.M., A. D. Bryce Douglas, of Seafield;
D.M., John Arnot;
S.W., William Beck;
J.W., James McDonald;
Chaplain, Rev. F. Halden;
Treasurer, Mr. George Barrie;
Secretary, Mr. Peter White;
Tyler, Mr. Alexander Fullerton.

The lodge continues in a flourishing condition.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1898

ARDROSSAN – TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE

A conference on the relation of the Church to temperance was held in the Congregational Church on Saturday afternoon – Rev. David Greenhill, Saltcoats, presiding.

Rev. W. S. Todd, Glasgow, and the Rev. J. M. Forson, Glasgow, were the principal speakers.

Rev. Mr. Todd said he regarded drunkenness as a divine visitation on a nation that drank, and argued that it was the duty of the Church to prosecute temperance work, as a result of the obligation resting upon it to keep men in a condition favourable for the reception of the Gospel.

Rev. Mr. Forson assailed the Threefold Option Alliance, and delivered a characteristic total abstinence address.

The attendance was small.
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