Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JULY 1954

15 YEARS FOR CULPABLE HOMICIDE

A plea of guilty to culpable homicide by a Saltcoats man charged with the murder of his mother was accepted by the Crown at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday because medical reports had shown a degree of diminished responsibility in his case.

Lord Russell sentenced Owen Kane Ryan, (36), to 15 years’ imprisonment.

A married man with one child, he was separated from his wife and was living with his mother at 38 Quay Street, Saltcoats, on the night of her death.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 JULY 1910

HOLIDAY RESORT – SALTCOATS

Unsettled weather has prevailed for a few days. Tuesday was breezy with a low temperature, and on Wednesday morning there was a heavy downpour of rain. Towards noon the rain ceased, and with bright sunshine visitors could det out of doors for recreation. The concert by Mrs Hampson’s Pierrots in the Town Hall last night was a great success. There are a good many enquiries for houses in August, and there is every prospect of that month being a busy one.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 JULY 1910

THE PRIVILEGES OF ICE-CREAM DEALERS

At Saltcoats Police Court yesterday - before Bailies Christie and Millar - Francis Adolphus, Winton Buildings, Ardrossan, and Vittoria Guidi, Countess Street, Saltcoats, both ice-cream salesmen, pleaded not guilty to a charge of loitering and obstructing the thoroughfare at the esplanade and Melbourne Park while disposing of their goods on the dates during Glasgow Fair week.

Mr Joseph Kirkland, writer, appeared for the accused and pointed out that they had caused no more obstruction than that caused regularly by the minstrels.

The Fiscal, Mr T Smith, held that it was for the court to decide whether the use made of the roadway was unreasonable or unnecessary and amounted to an obstruction.

The accused were found guilty.

Adolphus was fined £2, or 20 days’ imprisonment, and Guidi, against whom there were two charges, £4 or 40 days’ imprisonment.

A case against a youth of 16 was withdrawn.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 JULY 1911

MARCHED FROM ELGIN TO SALTCOATS

This issue of the Glasgow Herald includes an extract of a brief memoir by Alexander Patterson who, in 1806, ran away from his uncle's smallholding in Elgin to enlist in the 92nd Highlanders.

He describes being marched from Elgin to Forres, and thence to Nairn and Inverness, eventually coming to Blair Atholl, and from there to Dunkeld, Crieff and Stirling. They then marched from Stirling to a seaport called Saltcoats.

At "the seaport called Saltcoats", he said, "the men embarked on a collier for Dublin where the 92nd were in barracks and where the grimy conditions of the recruits on their arrival, fresh from the coal dust in the collier's hold, gave rise to many a sally hard enough to swallow."

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 JULY 1912

DEATH - MARTIN

At 10 Montgomerie Crescent, Saltcoats, on the 28th instant, Captain William Martin, late ship “LOCH BROOM”.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 JULY 1912

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB

Mixed foursome competition – Miss Taylor and A. Beard, 79; and Miss Keys and H. McGillivray, 80.

Gentlemen’s foursome – Wilson and M. Hattie, 90.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 JULY 1912

WIND DAMAGES PROPERTY AT SALTCOATS

A strong south-west gale was experienced at Saltcoats on Sunday evening, accompanied by heavy rain. Considerable damage was done at the West Beach, where a photographer’s studio was blown down, part of boat hirer’s gangway destroyed, and the barricade separating the men’s and women’s dressing-rooms at the North Pans bathing pond levelled.

About midnight the wind altered and the storm abated.

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 JULY 1914

BIRTH - ARNOTT

At Dunragit, 6 Sorbie Road, Saltcoats, on 29th July, to Mr and Mrs Alexander M. Arnott; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 JULY 1914

MARRIAGE – LUNDHOLM and AUCHENCLOSS

At Gardens Church, Cape Town, on 29th July, by the Rev, Mr McClure, Gustav Lundholm, second son of Mr and Mrs C. O. Lundholm, Upper Norwood, London (formerly of Ardeer) to Agnes Barr Auchencloss, M.B., Ch.B. (Glasgow), eldest daughter of the late James Currie Auchencloss (formerly of Glenfield, Paisley), and Mrs Auchencloss, Saltcoats – by cable – residence, Modderfontein, Transvaal.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 AUGUST 1910

DEATH - DUNKELD

At Saracen’s Head Hotel, Saltcoats, on 31st July, John Dunkeld, proprietor, in his 57th year.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 AUGUST 1910

DEATH - McKAY

At Saltcoats, on the 30th July, David McKay, late chief engineer, s.s. CASTALIA, Anchor Line, beloved husband of Janet Blackely.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 AUGUST 1911

HOLIDAY RESORT – SALTCOATS

After the thunderstorm at the end of the week we have had fine weather. Large numbers of people left for home on Monday. A good many day-trippers were in town, so that the streets were busy. Houses are pretty well let for August, and there are still many enquiries for accommodation. Arrangements are being made for a swimming gala to clear off the debt on the swimming club pavilion.