Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 SEPTEMBER 1892

ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD

Rev. J. D. McCall presiding.

A communication was read from the secretary to the Saltcoats Temperance Union asking the Board to sanction the introduction of a temperance reading book in the schools.

Mr. Kirkhope moved that the secretary of the Union be asked to send a specimen of the class book, to be considered by the Board at next meeting.

Mr. Morris seconded.

Mr. Shearer objected to a change in the class books, on the ground that it meant more expense to the ratepayer who had several children at school. He moved that the matter be left over till the Board came to consider the general question of making a change in the class books.

Rev. Mr. Halden seconded.

After some discussion Mr. Shearer withdrew his motion, and Mr. Kirkhope’s motion became the finding of the meeting.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 SEPTEMBER 1897

SANITARY PROSECUTIONS

At the instance of Mr. Charles J. Shaw, burgh surveyor, several householders, shopkeepers, &c., in Princes Street, Ardrossan, were charged at the Burgh Court yesterday with having failed to keep a common close clean. Some ashes had been allowed to gather round the receptacle provided by the Commissioners under the daily collection of ashes system, and straw had been allowed to accumulate in places.

Several of the accused cross-questioned the burgh surveyor very closely, particularly about the absence of one of their number, who had not been summoned to appear.

Fines of 2s 6d each were imposed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 SEPTEMBER 1886

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Galway, 26 September – The schooner RATCLIFF BOYD, from Ardrossan, with coals, took the ground when coming into the dock here last night, and remains. Vessel making a little water. She is lighting cargo, and will probably dock next tide with the assistance of a tug.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 SEPTEMBER 1885

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

There was launched yesterday from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs James & John Thomson, Ardrossan, a neatly modelled smack. She was built to the order of Mr. James Hamilton, Whiting Bay, Arran, and was named JEANIE WALLACE, of Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 SEPTEMBER 1897

SMACK ASHORE NEAR ARDROSSAN

About nine o’clock on Monday night the sailing smack MARYS – Greenock, 23 tons register, Captain McMillan, Rothesay, master – bound from Rothesay to Ardrossan for coal, failed to take Ardrossan Harbour in a stiff north-westerly breeze, and being driven to the southwards grounded on the beach.

She was floated off at three o’clock yesterday morning, but the tow-rope parted and the vessel drifted on to the Campbell Rock, where she still lies in imminent danger of breaking up.

The captain and the mate, who were the only men on board, came ashore with the pilot in a small boat.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 SEPTEMBER 1898

ARDROSSAN BOWLING TIES

The final tie for the vice-president’s prize was played between Mr. Harry Hogarth and Mr. John Brown.

The game was one of the best in the competition, peels being called at 12, 15, 16, and 18. In the final head Brown was short with two of his bowls, while Hogarth put three round the kitty. With his last bowl Brown attempted to spring the Kitty, but missed, leaving Hogarth victor by three shots.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 SEPTEMBER 1898

GLASGOW STEAMER SINKS

The Glasgow steamer TINA, belonging to Mr. Logan, Glasgow, which went ashore some time ago in West Loch Tarbert, sank on Sunday off the Mull of Kintyre while being towed to the Clyde for repairs.

Five of the men on board the TINA were drowned, and four of them saved.

One of the deceased was William Stewart, diver’s attendant, Ardrossan.

ARDROSSAN & SALTCOATS HERALD
23 SEPTEMBER 1898

DEATH

STEWART: Drowned off the Mull of Kintyre, WILLIAM GARDINER STEWART, (30), Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 SEPTEMBER 1898

DEATH

AULD: At Maxwellton, North Crescent, Ardrossan, on the 21st instant, J. P. W. Auld, aged 50 years.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 SEPTEMBER 1898

MARRIAGE

WALLACE – ANDERSON: At the Cockburn Hotel, Glasgow, on the 21st instant, by the Rev. A. H. Charlton, Free Church, Kilwinning, Andrew Wallace, Falkirk, to Agnes, youngest daughter of the late Peter Anderson, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 SEPTEMBER 1983

DEATH

MACFARLANE: At the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, Paisley, on 22 September, 1983, Daniel Macfarlane, (former rector of Ardrossan Academy), dearly loved husband of Janet M. Allison, Thornly Park Avenue, Paisley.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 SEPTEMBER 1899

ARDROSSAN AND BELFAST DAYLIGHT SERVICE

The travelling facilities offered by the various shipping companies during the summer season are now gradually being withdrawn for another period, and in this connection we observe that Messrs Burns’s daylight service between Ardrossan and Belfast will be discontinued after Saturday, 30th current.

After the withdrawal of this service the usual winter Saturday afternoon service from Belfast to Ardrossan will be conducted by Messrs Burns’s new R.M.S. VULTURE.

Commencing 7 October, the VULTURE will leave Belfast every Saturday at 2.30 p.m. in connection with a special express train from Ardrossan, due at Glasgow Central Station at 9.5 p.m.

Messrs Burns’s night mail services will he maintained during the winter months, as at present, in connection with the Caledonian and Glasgow & South-Western Railways, via Ardrossan and Greenock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 SEPTEMBER 1896

ARDROSSAN CYCLING CLUB

During the week races under the auspices of the Ardrossan and District Cycling Club have been run off on the West Kilbride road. A large number of prizes have been offered for competition.

The results are as follows: -

FIVE MILE SCRATCH RACE (FOR CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE CLUB)
1ST Hugh Jamieson
2nd David McDowall
3rd William Jamieson

ONE MILE HANDICAP RACE
1st D. McDowall
2nd H. Jamieson (scratch)
3rd T. Wylie

THREE MILE OPEN HANDICAP RACE –
1st Duncan McInnes, Saltcoats
2nd Hugh Jamieson (scratch)
3rd D. McDowall