Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1910

DEATH - GOODWIN

At 25 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on 21st April, Jessie McCall, relict of Captain James Goodwin.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1912

THE STEAMER GUNBAR

The new twin-screw steamer GUNBAR, built by the Ardrossan Shipbuilding Company for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Sydney, New South Wales, arrived in Sydney on 22 April.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1913

REV. DUGALD McARTHUR, B.D.

At a meeting of Irvine Presbytery in the New Ardrossan Parish Church Hall yesterday the call by the New Ardrossan congregation to the Rev. Dugald McArthur, B.D., assistant Barony Parish, Glasgow, was accepted, and Tuesday, May 13, was provisionally fixed as the date of the induction.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 APRIL 1902

FIRE AT ARDROSSAN OILSKIN WORKS

A serious fire occurred in Ardrossan yesterday forenoon, completely destroying the premises of the Ardrossan Oilskin Manufacturing Company, and involving a loss of over £1000.

The building contained a large number of waterproofs and oilskins, as well as several barrels of linseed oil.

The cause of the fire is unknown.

Owing to the inflammable nature of the material the fire spread rapidly, and in a few minutes the flames enveloped the whole building, so that it was impossible to save more than a small quantity of the stock.

Water was poured into the building from all sides, but the fire was not subdued until the roof and the whole of the interior were destroyed, and only the walls left standing.

A good many workers, mostly girls, will be thrown out of employment. One girl, named Mary Ramsay, was badly burned about the face and arms.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 APRIL 1914

EPISCOPAL HOME MISSIONS

On Wednesday afternoon a sale of work was held in the hall of St. Andrews’s Episcopal Church, Ardrossan, in aid of the Home Mission work of the church.

The Countess of Glasgow, in declaring the sale open, referred to the growth in the demand of the Home Mission work. In their district the great influx of workers from England in connection with the new shipbuilding yards, and the fact that Ardrossan was now an important naval station, meant a great increase in the number of Episcopalians for whom they had to provide.

The proceeds of the sale were to go towards the expense incurred in getting the services of a curate to assist the Rev. A. Copland in his increased work in connection with the congregation.

The sum realised was about £30.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1845

LAUNCH OF THE FIRE FLY

On Tuesday, about one o’clock afternoon, a fine new steamer was launched from the building-yard of those skilful and enterprising engineers, Messrs Tod and McGregor, Glasgow.

The FIRE FLY is intended for the Ardrossan and Belfast station, as a consort to the GLOW WORM.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1864

SCHOONER PUT BACK

On Saturday the schooner ALLIES, Christopher, master, from Ardrossan to Barcelona, with pig iron, put back to the Tail of the Bank, with foretopmast carried away, loss of spars, sails, etc., having been struck by a severe squall when a little to the south of Ailsa Craig.

The ALLIES sailed from Ardrossan on Friday morning.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1866

SHIPPING NEWS

Lamlash, April 22 – The TAXIAN, Small, from Ardrossan for Swinemunde, has put in here to ship a man in lieu of one deserted at Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1868

AYR CIRCUIT COURT - ROBBERY

William Stewart and Neil McLaughlin were charged with robbery, in so far as on the 7th or 8th day of March, at or near Stanley Burn, on the road between Saltcoats and Ardrossan, they did attack and assault John McAusland, foreman blacksmith, residing in Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, and did knock him to the ground, kick him with their feet, and rob him of 12 lbs. of beef, 4 lbs. of onions, a quarter of a stone of potatoes, 1 lb. of ham, and 13s 4d of money.

Both prisoners pleaded not guilty, and the case went to trial.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and both were sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude.

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EVENING TIMES
25 APRIL 1968

AYRSHIRE MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER

A man was charged at Kilmarnock today after a young mother of three was found murdered late last night in the hills above West Kilbride, Ayrshire.

Ian Breckenridge, (26), an unemployed plumber, c/o 5 Clyde Terrace, Ardrossan, appeared on petition in Kilmarnock Sherrif Court charged with the murder of Mrs Helen Carson, aged about 23, 30 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan.

No plea or declaration was taken and Honorary Sheriff Ian Inch remanded Breckenridge in custody for further inquiries.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 APRIL 1850

MARRIAGE – ROBERTSON and McCREADIE

At Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 23rd instant, William Robertson, Esquire, engineer, to Martha, third daughter of William McCreadie, Esquire, of Her Majesty’s Customs, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 APRIL 1968

MAN REMANDED ON MURDER CHARGE

Ian Breckenridge, (26), unemployed plumber, c/o 5 Clyde Terrace, Ardrossan, appeared on petition in Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday charged with the murder at West Kilbride of a young married woman.

Breckenridge is accused of murdering Helen Patricia Thomson or Carson, aged abut 23, of 30 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on Crosbie Hill, near Woodhead Farm. She is believed to have been strangled.

No plea or declaration was taken and Breckenridge was remanded in custody.