Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 JUNE 1892

BOWLING
ARDROSSAN v. WEST KILBRIDE

On Friday night a friendly match – four rinks a-side – was played on the Ardrossan Bowling Club green between the above two teams. The green was in good condition, and the weather was fine.

The following was the result – Ardrossan, 94; West Kilbride, 61.

ARDROSSAN BOWLING CLUB IN BELFAST

It may be stated that the Ardrossan Club were not present at the opening of the public bowling green at Ormonde Park, and did not play the Belfast Club. The Ardrossan players had a match with Belmont Bowling Club at their private green, and gained a victory by 66 to 38.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 JUNE 1900

DEATH

BOA: At 1 Hill Place, Ardrossan, on the 19th instant, Elizabeth Gillies, aged 54 years, wife of Peter Boa.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 JUNE 1908

DEATH

GALLOWAY: At 87 Princes Street, Ardrossan, on the 19th of June, James Galloway, aged 27 years, son of James and Elizabeth Galloway.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 JUNE 1894

ARDROSSAN AND BELFAST DAYLIGHT SERVICE

Messrs Burns announce that the ADDER will resume sailing from Ardrossan on Friday, and that through connections with the daylight service to the West of Scotland, Edinburgh, and the north will be maintained on after that date.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 JUNE 1882

VESSEL SPOKEN

CITY OF BRUSSELS (barque), from Ardrossan for Rangoon, 29 days out, June 4, in latitude 46N, longitude 30W.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 JUNE 1882

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The AUT, which went ashore at Kyleakin, Skye, on Sunday, 13th June, has been taken off.

The lifting operations were under the superintendence of Mr. James C. Anderson, Glasgow, and were carried out by a squad of workmen from Messrs Barr & Shearer’s shipyard, and only six days elapsed from the time the men left till the steamer was back in Ardrossan.

The steamer is owned by Messrs Horsfall & Son, Liverpool.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JUNE 1890

BOWLING
ARDROSSAN v. ARDEER

A match between these two clubs, six rinks a-side, took place on Ardrossan bowling green on Friday night with the following result –

Ardrossan, 104; Ardeer, 152.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JUNE 1899

MARRIAGE

KING – BAIN: At 11 Winton Street, Ardrossan, on Wednesday, 21st June, by Rev. John Masterton, minister of the Congregation Church, Ardrossan, assisted by the Rev. John L. King, M.A., of Melrose, brother of the bridegroom, the Rev. Joseph L. King, M.A., to Elizabeth P. Bain, elder daughter of John Bain, Winton Street, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JUNE 1892

SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS

The schools under the Ardrossan School Board close this week for the holidays, and the annual examinations began with Ardrossan No. 1 School yesterday.

The Board was represented by Miss Moffat, the Revs. J. D. McCall and William Rossie Brown, and Mr. John Morris.

Mr. Morris presided, and Miss Moffat distributed the prizes.

Appropriate addresses were delivered by Mr. Morris and the Rev. Messrs McCall and Brown.

The attendance of parents and friends of the children was large.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JUNE 1898

DISASTER TO AN ARDROSSAN SMACK – ACTION FOR LOSS OF CARGO

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday, Sheriff Hall gave judgment in an action at the instance of J. & G. Forrest, builders, Whiting Bay, Arran, against Alexander Wright, shipmaster, Ardrossan, in which the pursers sought to recover the sum of £24, being the value of the cargo of building materials belonging to them which was shipped by them on board the defender’s smack ELIZABETH FYFE at Ardrossan on 21st December last for conveyance to Whiting Bay, and which cargo was so seriously damaged in the course of the voyage in consequence of the alleged unseaworthy state of the ship as to be rendered quite useless.

His Lordships finds that on 10th December, 1897, the pursers chartered the smack ELIZABETH FYFE, then belonging to the defender, to convey a cargo of building materials, which was the property of the pursuers, and which included a quantity of lime shells, from Ardrossan to Whiting Bay, Arran.

The smack was loaded in Ardrossan Harbour on 20th December, 1897, and sailed on the morning of 21st December, manned by two able-bodied seamen – Montgomerie as master, and the witness Greer – and put into Lamlash Bay on the afternoon of the same day. Though she encountered no severe weather, she leaked badly during the voyage, so as to necessitate the constant use of the pump; and on 22nd December she was taken to Lamlash Pier, where Montgomerie and Greer, overhauled her, and endeavoured to stop the leaks, but, as the event proved, without success.

On 23rd December she resumed her voyage, but it soon became apparent that she was settling down, and Montgomerie and Greer, who had then obtained the assistance of the witness Kirk, were forced to run her back to the pier. The night being dark, she took the ground a little to the north of it, and remained fast; and the cargo was in consequence so damaged by the influx of sea water as to be rendered for the most part entirely valueless. The pursuers took delivery of a portion of it which was less seriously damaged.

The Sheriff finds in fact and in law that the smack was unseaworthy when she left Ardrossan, and that the defender is liable in reparation to the pursuers for the damage thereby occasioned to the cargo, which he assesses at the sum of £20, with expenses.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JUNE 1892

MARRIAGE

BERTRAM – BROWN: At Eglinton Hotel, Ardrossan, on the 22nd instant, by the Rev. Francis Halden, John Cranston Bertram, commercial traveller, Leith, to Jane Muir, fifth daughter of the late Alexander Brown, Albion Hotel, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JUNE 1899

SCOTCH BANKRUPT
APPLICATION FOR CESSIO HONORUM

JOHN MANSON, coal agent, 210 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan – to be examined in the Court House, Kilmarnock, 5th July, at eleven o’clock.