Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 FEBRUARY 1889

FOOTBALL
ARDROSSAN ENSIGN (SCRATCH) v. 2ND KILBIRNIE
Played at Ardrossan

Kilbirnie won by 2 goals to 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 FEBRUARY 1937

DEATH

McCALL: At Mavisbank, Aberfeldy, on 15th February, 1937, ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, elder daughter of the late Rev. John D. McCall, New Ardrossan Parish Church.

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CLYDESHIPS.CO.UK
18 FEBRUARY 1892

THE JESSIE STEWART

The wooden schooner JESSIE STEWART, built by Joseph Russell, Ardrossan, for Blackburn & Company, Fleetwood, and launched on the 5th of March 1862, foundered near Milford Haven, while on a voyage from Newport to Wexford with a cargo of coal.

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EVENING TIMES
18 FEBRUARY 1960

TRAINS, BUSES ARE STUCK IN SNOW

Ayrshire:
Snowdrifts on the line near Ardrossan held up early trains. Among the stranded passengers were 50 pupils of Ardrossan Academy.

In Saltcoats there were drifts several feet deep. Workmen used a mechanical shovel to clear the main streets.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 FEBRUARY 1889

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The CHASE, of Fowey, (Pollard, master), from Rochester for Ardrossan, with cement, put into Newhaven on Sunday, making water, after stranding in Dungeness Bay on Wednesday night.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1894

BIRTH

GUTHRIE: At Seton Street, Ardrossan, on the 8th instant, the wife of T. S. Guthrie, butcher; a son.

GLASGOW HERALD
16 JANUARY 1894

DEATH

GUTHRIE: At Seton Street, Ardrossan, on the 14th instant, Agnes McCall, beloved wife of T. S. Guthrie.

GLASGOW HERALD
20 FEBRUARY 1894

DEATH

GUTHRIE: At Seton Street, Ardrossan, on the 19th instant, John McCall, infant son of T. S. Guthrie, butcher.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 FEBRUARY 1891

ARDROSSAN DOCK

Work has commenced for the season in earnest. The sluices of the coffer dam have been closed in order to get 6 feet or 8 feet of water cleared out before excavation is gone on with.

A number of men are engaged, and when the water is out a large number more will be put on the work, which is to be proceeded with rapidly.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 FEBRUARY 1878

BODY FOUND

Yesterday, the body of a man in an advanced state of decomposition was washed ashore at Burnfoot, Ardrossan.

The only articles of clothing on deceased were checked tweed trousers, oilskin trousers, blucher boots, and stockings.

The body was removed to the dead-house at the hospital.

A seaman named HUGH BUCHANAN, of the steamer AFTON, went amissing on 21st ultimo, and his friends have been communicated with with a view to the identification of the remains.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 FEBRUARY 1896

VESSEL SPOKEN

BRUSSELS (barque) of Ardrossan, steering E.N.E. – all well – February 15, 47N. 22W.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 FEBRUARY 1896

BIRTH

GILFILLAN: February 19, the wife of Robert Gilfillan, 22 Winton Street, Ardrossan; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 FEBRUARY 1894

DEATH

HENDERSON: At North Crescent, Ardrossan, on the 20th instant, Matthew Henderson, late of Mill Farm.

DEATH OF WELL KNOWN AYRSHIRE FARMER

Early yesterday morning Mr Matthew Henderson, for many years tenant of Mill Farm, Ardrossan, died at his residence, North Crescent, Ardrossan.

Mr Henderson began life in the grocery trade, carrying on a prosperous business for many years in Princes Street.

All his life he took a keen interest in agricultural affairs, and about thirty years ago he became the tenant of Mill Farm.

In November last he retired from active work.

He was well known in agricultural circles, and at all the more important agricultural meetings in the county his was a familiar figure.

He died between 70 and 80 years of age.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 FEBRUARY 1916

SALE OF WORK

Ardrossan Women’s Liberal Association held a sale of work in aid of the Red Cross Society’s funds.

The sale was opened by Miss Russell of Seafield, and the sum realised was £11 18s.