Stevenston - On This Day In History

[John Donnelly]

Thanks PT.
The lack of permanence of such theatres would explain things.
You would have thought that there would have been memories of and references to a regular theatre or theatres in the towns.
JD.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 DECEMBER 1895

FOOTBALL
STEVENSTON THISTLE v. IRVINE
At Stevenston

Result: - Thistle, 3; Irvine, 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 DECEMBER 1896

ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday JAMES MUIR, Townhead Street, Stevenston, was charged with having, on the 7th instant, assaulted his wife, Janet McCartney or Muir, by striking her two severe blows on the face, and with having assaulted Constable Peter Gammie, while on duty, by kicking him on the stomach and biting him on the left hand.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 DECEMBER 1894

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

The monthly medal competitions took place on Saturday. James Donaldson won the Heys medal with 83 net, and the Robertson medal fell to William Stewart with a net score of 84.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 DECEMBER 1893

FOOTBALL
STEVENSTON THISTLE v. KILWINNING MONKCASTLE

At Stevenston, and resulted in favour of Thistle by 8 goals to 0.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 DECEMBER 1893

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

The monthly medal competitions took place on Saturday. The weather was stormy, with occasional showers.

Results – Heys Medal, W. C. Cunningham; Robertson Medal, W. Tulloch – 102 (14) 88; James Mackintosh – 104 (13) 91. Mr. Mackintosh wins the medal, Mr. Tulloch having been a previous winner.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 DECEMBER 1895

BURGLARY AT STEVENSTON CO-OPERATIVE

Early yesterday morning it was discovered that the Co-operative Stores had been broken into, and a quantity of goods and some money stolen. The building is of two storeys in Boglemart Street, the ground floor being a grocery and bakery, and upstairs a drapery and committee rooms.

The thieves had tried the front and back doors of the grocery shop, but found an easier mode of access by the back door of the close, between the bakery and the grocery. The door was wrenched off at the hinges, and the door into the grocery forced open at the lock.

The thieves rummaged the till, and regaled themselves with bread, butter, and ham. A large safe, containing a considerable amount of money, was untouched, probably because the thieves had not the appliances for breaking into it.

A visit was paid to the bread shop, and loose cash in the till removed. Going upstairs to the drapery department, a thorough search seems to have been made for money, and several drawers were broken open, but only a few coppers were got.

The burglars divested themselves of their clothing, and proceeded to select boots, underclothing, and a new suit each. They left behind them their old clothing and four pairs of boots, so it is thought that four men were engaged on the job. The floor was covered with boots and clothing which had been thrown down in the process of selection and fitting on.

About £3 in money, besides goods, was taken away.

The Police are investigating the matter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 DECEMBER 1896

DEATH OF MR. ALFRED NOBEL – REUTER’S TELEGRAM – SAN REMO, ITALY

Mr. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish engineer and chemist, died last night at his villa here.

Deceased was first to recognise the value of nitro-glycerine, which he introduced as a blasting agent for industrial purposes.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 DECEMBER 1899

FOOTBALL – NORTH AYRSHIRE CUP
STEVENSTON THISTLE v. BEITH
At Stevenston

Result: - Thistle, 3; Beith, 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 DECEMBER 1896

THE LATE MR. ALFRED NOBEL

In Ayrshire, where Nobel’s Dynamite Works are situated, although he was personally known to but a few, the news of Mr. Alfred Nobel’s death has created a sense of loss, and stirred over a wide district, a feeling of much regret.

On the Ardeer sands, naturally as barren a region as the desert of the Sahara, a flourishing colony of which the late Alfred Nobel was the founder, has the since the year 1876, sprung into existence.

The area enclosed extends to about 400 acres, and in this place, formerly the haunt of screaming sea-fowl, employment is now given to about 1200 comfortably situated and well-paid workpeople.

The buildings in which the explosives are manufactured and the magazines in which they are stored, the latter surrounded by great ramparts of sand, are scattered amongst the dunes, only the tops of the taller buildings and the stalk vents being visible from the public roads in the neighbourhood.

Mr. Nobel seldom visited this scene of activity which he had as it were conjured into existence, and which was the main source of his enormous wealth. The “factory” has always been in the hands of able managers whom he could trust implicitly. He was, however, occasionally seen at Ardeer, and the complete absence of “showiness” and ostentation in his personal appearance and manner was in the Stevenston district subject of common remark.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 DECEMBER 1897

FOOTBALL – AYRSHIRE CUP – 3RD ROUND – SECOND GAME
STEVENSTON THISTLE v. ANNBANK
At Stevenston

Result: - Thistle, 3; Annbank, 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 DECEMBER 1890

MASONIC FESTIVAL

Dalry Blair Lodge (No. 290) held their annual festival last night. Deputations were forward from Kilbirnie, Beith, Irvine, Stevenston, Saltcoats, and Kilbride, and after mustering at the lodge room a procession was formed, and all the leading streets paraded.

The brethren were headed by the Dalry Instrumental Band.