Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 JUNE 1867

DROWNED WHILE BATHING

On Wednesday night about nine o’clock, a lad named JOHN TRAINER, 17 years of age, belonging to Kilwinning, entered the Mill-Dam, Stevenston, for the purpose of bathing. He was accompanied by a companion, who did not enter the water. Trainer was only a short time in the water when his comrade observed him suddenly sink once or twice. He at once raised an alarm, when a crowd speedily collected; but owing to the depth of the water (about 18 feet), and the absence of appliances, nothing was done to rescue the unfortunate lad from his perilous position.

It is supposed that Trainer had been overheated before entering the water, and that cramp had prevented him using means to save himself, as he was a good swimmer.

He was an apprentice cabinetmaker in Saltcoats.

The body was recovered about two hours after the accident.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 JUNE 1883

BIRTH

MALCOLM: At 1 Shore Road, Stevenston, on the 15th instant, Mrs Alexander Malcolm; a daughter.
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GLASGOW HERALD
17 JUNE 1897

EXTRAORDINARY SCENES AT STEVENSTON

The most disastrous flood that has for many years occurred in Stevenston took place yesterday.

An unusually heavy rainfall had caused Stevenston burn to rise from 10 to 12 feet above its usual level.

The burn crosses the centre of the town at Fullarton Place and is enclosed by strong parapet walls. A great volume of water had gathered at this point, and as the bridge under the road was not sufficient to give passage to the flood it was carried over the wall into the roadway.

About three o’clock in the morning the wall facing Fullarton Place gave way, and the pent-up torrent swept into the streets in the vicinity.

Boglemart Street was flooded almost its entire length, the water entering the basement of houses. The occupants in most cases were asleep in bed, and awakened by the water entering. They had to quickly escape from the houses in scanty attire to a place of safety in the higher parts of the town. Children and elderly people were lowered by ropes from the second storey windows.

Fortunately there was no loss of life, and considering the suddenness of the flood few accidents occurred.

Two men who were crossing at Fullarton Place with horses, which they were removing to a place of safety, had a narrow escape of being swept away.

The escaping torrent quickly invaded New Street and flooded the houses there.

The bridge at Caledonia Railway Station is too narrow to permit the passage of such a volume of water, and this impeded its spread in that vicinity, flooding gardens and houses.

Opposite the Public School the houses were flooded to the extent of from 4 to 6 feet, and the inmates had hurriedly to depart, leaving their furniture floating in the water.

The interior of the Free Church at the corner of New Street presented a scene of great disorder. The flood had risen above the seats, and the cushions were all saturated. Chairs and a table in the choir bench were afloat, and books spoiled. In the hall and vestry the furniture was floating, and when the water subsided lay in heaps in the utmost disorder. The floors were covered with mud and debris.

At the Public School matters were quite as bad, so that it was impossible to open it for the scholars.

A strong wooden bridge leading over the burn to the cemetery was carried away.

The flood abated considerably up till ten o’clock in the forenoon, when it again commenced to rise.

The Cross Keys public house had to be closed, as the water was 3 feet deep at the front door, and the inmates took refuge upstairs.

Fullarton Place was presented with an extraordinary appearance. The torrent had torn great furrows in the street and was again flooding Boglemart Street.

Business was at a standstill, merchants being busily engaged barricading their doors. Opposite one shop the trunk of a tree had been stranded, after pounding the pavement into fragments. Further along another huge tree trunk lay near to the Co-operative Store. As there was danger that damage might be done if they again got afloat, Mr Armour, the county surveyor, had them removed.

Articles of furniture were floating down the stream and got stranded at the lower reaches.

A pony was drowned in a stable before it could be rescued. A great many hens met a similar fate.

All the gardens in the lower parts of the town have been greatly damaged by water.

The loss entailed on those who had their houses flood must be very great.

The heaviest losers undoubtedly will be the merchants, and scarcely one of them has escaped.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JUNE 1877

DEATH

At The Manse, Stevenston, Ayrshire, on the 16th instant, Jane Ann Elizabeth Burnett, wife of the Rev. James Cruikshank.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JUNE 1881

STEVENSTON – PIT ACCIDENT

A lad, about 12 years, named GOURLAY, residing with his parent in Saltcoats, was seriously injured on Thursday by an accident at No. 5 Pit, Auchenharvie Colliery, belonging to Messrs Merry & Cuninghame.

Gourlay and another boy named KEAN were drawing a hutch up the brae, when a large stone fell from the roof upon Gourlay, breaking his leg below the knee and cutting his arm severely. He was removed home, where he is receiving medical assistance. Kean escaped narrowly with a few slight bruises.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JUNE 1950

PIPE BAND CONTEST WINNERS

The following were the results at the Renfrew Pipe Band and Scottish Pipe Band Association annual contest held on Saturday in Western Park, Renfrew: -

GRADE 3

1. Stevenston.
2. Babcock and Wilcox.
3. Ayr.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 JUNE 1893

WIFE BEATING

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday HUGH SIBBALD, moulder, Dynamite Road, Stevenston, pleaded guilty to having assaulted his wife there, on the 17th instant, by striking her a blow with his fist, and was fined in £2 with the alternative of 20 days’ imprisonment.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 JUNE 1913

UNRULY STEVENSTON STRIKERS

Shortly before midnight on Wednesday about 100 men, mainly those on strike in Stevenston, assembled near the railway station and paraded the streets of Stevenston.

When passing some houses where the inmates were believed to hold different opinions on the strike question stones were thrown, and 18 panes of glass were broken. The people in the vicinity were in a state of excitement. Nobody was injured, and after singing some songs the men dispersed.

No arrests were made.

This is the first outbreak of violence since the strike commenced.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 JUNE 1914

GOLF

Ardeer v. West Kilbride - Result: - Ardeer, 8½; West Kilbride, 7½.

Ardeer Ladies v West Kilbride Ladies - Result: - Ardeer, 1; West Kilbride, 6.
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 JUNE 1910

A CHILD’S WANDERINGS

On Sunday the Stevenston police and townspeople were engaged searching the sandhills for a boy, four years of age, who went amissing on Saturday.

The child was one of a party of Kilmarnock excursionists who arrived in Stevenston for the day, and his parents thought he had been taken home with some friends. When they arrived in Kilmarnock no trace could be found of the boy.

The father went to Stevenston on Sunday and a search was commenced.

While this search was proceeding a Kilmarnock man cycling to Stevenston to take part in the search found the child in one of the streets of Irvine and restored him to his parents.
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 JUNE 1876

STEVENSTON SCHOOL BOARD

This board met on Monday evening – Mr Lockhart in the chair.

The principal business was to confer with Mr Lithgow as to his entry to the new school. Mr Lithgow explained that his salary had been fixed by the late board at £200 per annum, and 10 per cent of the school fees, and that these emoluments were rather less than he was making under the heritors before the Education Act came into force.

After a free and friendly interchange of views, the meeting unanimously agreed that Mr Lithgow’s emoluments as teacher of the new school should be a fixed salary of £200, with 12½ per cent of the gross earnings of the school from fees and Government grant.

Mr Lithgow agreed to this arrangement.
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GLASGOW HERALD
22 JUNE 1914

SCOTTISH JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION

The annual general meeting of the Scottish Junior Football Association was hyeld o Saturday afternoon in the S.F.A. rooms, Carlton Place, Glasgow, under the presidency of Mr Robert Hay (Dunaskin Lads).

Nominations for seats on the committee included: -

Ayrshire – (34 clubs) – three seats – R. Hay (Dunaskin Lads) elected ex-officio.

For the remaining two seats: –

Mr. A. Young (Lugar Boswell);
Mr. D. MacNicol (Ayr Fort); and
Mr. J. Bell (Ardeer Thistle).
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