Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 SEPTEMBER 1911

A GOVERNMENT GRANT TO SALTCOATS TOWN COUNCIL

Saltcoats Town Council has resolved to allocate a Government grant of £310 by applying £210 towards relief of rates and crediting the Town Hall revenue account with the remaining £100.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 SEPTEMBER 1914

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB

Lord Eglinton’s Cup and Gold Medal for best aggregate of spring and autumn meetings: –

G. Sinclair, (scratch) 165.

Club prizes: –

1. F. Gordon, (scratch) 77; and
2. J. Kilpatrick, (13) 79.

A subscription was taken for the Red Cross Society, and £ 3 19s was realised.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 SEPTEMBER 1914

THE PRINCE OF WALES’S FUND

The Saltcoats subscription to the Prince of Wales’s and to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association now amounts to £496 19s 5d.

Included in that amount is £72 5s 5d, being proceeds of benefit entertainment given in La Scala picture house by Messrs G. H. Kemp & son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 SEPTEMBER 1888

TRAVELLING ON THE RAILWAY WITHOUT A TICKET

Yesterday, at Paisley Sheriff Court – Hon. Sheriff-Substitute McGown on the bench – Robert Boyd, labourer, Saltcoats, who pleaded guilty to having travelled, on Thursday night, from Saltcoats to Lochwinnoch without a ticket, was fined in 10s 6d, with 25s expenses, or suffer 10 days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 SEPTEMBER 1910

THE HOLM PLANTATION

At the next meeting of Saltcoats Town Council, Councillor Fulton will bring forward a motion to appoint three members to constitute, along with three members of Ardrossan Town Council (should the latter also be appointed), a committee to inquire as to the possibility of the two burghs conjointly acquiring the Holm Plantation grounds and developing them into pleasure gardens and recreation grounds, and that the clerk be instructed to communicate with Ardrossan Town Council inviting their co-operation in the proposed inquiry.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 SEPTEMBER 1976

DOUBLE CHILD KILLER SENT TO CARSTAIRS

Alan Albert Eastham, (32), a Preston man, a misfit who lived in a garden shed at 213 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, yesterday admitted the killing in May of Saltcoats teenagers Robert and Margaret Monan.

Robert and Margaret lived with their mother Irene at 18 Mulgrew Avenue, Saltcoats, and three sisters, Alice, aged 12; Theresa, aged 16; and Janie, aged 17.

Mrs Monan and her husband Robert have lived apart for some years, but both shared the grief which swept Saltcoats at their children’s deaths.

After submitting a plea of culpable homicide, which was accepted by the Crown and endorsed by a formal verdict from the jury, Eastham was committed to the State Hospital at Carstairs without limit of time.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1914

NORTH AYRSHIRE VALUATION APPEAL COURT

On Monday the North Ayrshire Valuation Appeal Court was held in the Town Hall, Ardrossan, when Colonel Sturrock presided.

Mr Kirkland appealed on behalf of the Saltcoats Pavilion Company Limited against the proposal to raise the valuation of the pavilion from £80 to £150, and pointed out that there was now another picture house in the town dividing the business. If £80 was a proper valuation when the pavilion had had a monopoly of the business, he did not see why such an increase should be made now, when, as everyone knows the pavilion was of less value than it had been two years ago.

The Court fixed the valuation at £130.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1913

HEAVY RAIN IN SALTCOATS

Heavy showers fell in Saltcoats from Friday till Sunday night. The rainfall for 24 hours on Friday and Saturday was .93 of an inch. This equals over 20,000 gallons to the acre. Notwithstanding the heavy rain it is not supposed that much of the water would go to the reservoirs, the bulk of being absorbed by the parched land.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1913

BIRTH - DAVIDSON

At 6 Ardrossan Road, Saltcoats, on 14 September, to Dr. and Mrs Davidson; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1912

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB

Ladies Competition: –

Miss Kay, (12) 76;
Miss Stitt, (11) 78;
Miss Bryan, (18) 80; and
Miss Chrystie, (5) 82.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1910

HOLIDAY RESORT – SALTCOATS

Visitors this week have been favoured with ideal weather – bright sunshine with a pleasant breeze. A great many people gather in the morning at the Northpans Pond for their daily swim, and they find the water in excellent condition, its temperature on Thursday being 59 degrees. Harvesting is now in full swing in the district, and some of the farmers have got a portion of their crops stacked. The mineral well continues to secure large measures of support, and the attendance at the skating rink at the evening sessions is keeping up well. The band concerts which continue till the end of the month attract large crowds to Melbourne Park.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 SEPTEMBER 1910

DEATH - BLACK

Suddenly, at 77 Dockhead Street, Saltcoats, on 5th September, Grace Miller Gray, beloved wife of Robert Black, baker.

GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1910

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - BLACK

Mr Robert Black desires to thank his many friends for kind expressions of sympathy received in his sad bereavement – 77 Dockhead Street, Saltcoats.