Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 JANUARY 1886

DEATH

SHAW: At Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on 30th ultimo, after a long and painful illness, aged 39, ROBERT SHAW, passenger guard.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1928

FOOTBALL
SCOTTISH JUNIOR CUP- FOURTH ROUND

Saltcoats Victoria, 5; Forfar North End, 2.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1884

NEW YEAR - SALTCOATS

As the night was favourable, a considerable number of people was in the streets, but quickly dispersed after a slight demonstration.

Watch-night services were held in the Albert Hall, which was filled.

The streets were busy during the day. It was noticeable, however, that fewer people than usual appeared to travel by train, as the trains to and from Glasgow were lighter than last year at the same time.

The two United Presbyterian congregations had a brief service at noon in the East U.P. Church – Rev. George Philp giving an address. Children attending the Sunday school of the Established Church received their customary treat.

The morning delivery of letters was unusually heavy, a great many New Year cards passing through the post.

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 DECEMBER 1928

DEATH

RAE: Killed by accident, on 29th December, 1928, Captain Sir JAMES ROBERT RAE, Annickvale, Saltcoats, beloved husband of Willa Noble.

KNIGHT KILLED BY MOTOR 'BUS
NOTABLE MASTER MARINER
TRAGIC ACCIDENT AT SALTCOATS

Sir JAMES ROBERT RAE, the Commodore of the City Line, was killed in Saltcoats on Saturday through being knocked down by a motor ‘bus.

Sir James was 69 years of age, and had been a master mariner for 37 years.

Sir James was walking with Lady Rae in Saltcoats, where he resided, when the accident occurred. They were in Ardrossan Road near the footbridge over the L.M. & S. Railway line, when Sir James stepped off the footpath, with the intention it is believed, of crossing the bridge to reach his house in Caledonia Road.

Apparently, however, he failed to observe the approach of a motor ‘bus which struck him and knocked him down. In an effort to avoid the accident the driver of the bus swerved it across the road, and it mounted the pavement and demolished about twelve feet of the boundary wall at Ardrossan Parish Council office. A motor car travelling in the opposite direction collided with the ‘bus and was damaged. Apart from the conductress who received bruises, none of the occupants of the ‘bus was injured.

Sir James Rae was found to have received very severe injuries. He was carried into the Parish Council Office, where he died a few minutes after the accident.

VALUABLE WAR SERVICE

A native of Glasgow, where he was born in 1859, Captain Rae served his apprenticeship to the sea with Messrs Patrick Henderson & Co., and joined the City Line in 1887. He obtained his first command in 1891, and at the time of his death was spending a few weeks at home while his latest command, THE CITY OF NAGPUR, was being refitted for a world cruise.

During the war he was the master of the CITY OF EXETER, and performed valuable service in the transportation of troops. Thousands of soldiers were conveyed in his ship from India and elsewhere to the various fronts without a single life being lost.

On June, 1917, the CITY OF EXETER, struck a mine 23 miles outside Bombay and was badly damaged, but Captain Rae, by the exercise of great courage and fine seamanship, brought her safely into port.

Captain Rae was given the O.B.E. in 1918 and created K.B.E. in 1920.

GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1930

FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN SIR JAMES RAE

The funeral of Captain Sir JAMES ROBERT RAE, commodore of the City Line, who was accidentally killed by a motor ‘bus at Saltcoats on Saturday, took place yesterday from his residence in Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, to Ardrossan Cemetery.

The funeral was largely attended and included representatives from the City Line, the Imperial Merchant Services Guild, and the Provosts of Saltcoats and Ardrossan and local public men, while the route to the cemetery was lined with sympathisers.

The funeral service in the house was conducted by the Rev. James Adams, M.A., Trinity Church, Saltcoats, and the Rev. J. R. Spottiswood, North Parish Church, officiated at the graveside.

The chief mourners were Captain Rae’s four sons.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1888

STORE BROKEN INTO

A provision store at the head of Raise Street, Saltcoats, in connection with the new railway, was forcibly entered on Friday night and some boots stolen.

The police are inquiring into the case.

This is the third time in two years that this store has been broken into.

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1ST FEBRUARY 1972

Bus gets lost in blizzard....

ROADS BLOCKED AS BLIZZARD SWEEPS THE COUNTY

Blocked roads, burst pipes and Arctic blizzard conditions which cast a blanket of white over the area were the result of North Ayrshire's first heavy snowfall this winter.

The Dalry-West Kilbride and Kilbirnie-Largs roads were the worst affected on Tuesday ( 1st February ) and the latter was not officially opened until 11am on Wednesday when clearing work was completed.

Many vehicles were abandoned on the roads during the blizzard and at Highthorn, West Kilbride, the snow held up bus services from Saltcoats to Largs. The Clyde Coast bus service managed to pick up workers at Hunterston on Tuesday afternoon but several of the later journeys were cancelled because of bad road conditions.

A bus company spokesman said that the crew of the 9 am bus from Saltcoats to Largs went missing for several hours en route and were not seen back at the depot until 3 pm.

There were several road accidents in the district during the snowfall. On Monday evening at Saltcoats High Road's junction with McGillivray Avenue two cars collided and one of the drivers was taken to Kilmarnock Infirmary where he received treatment for abrasions to his forehead. On Tuesday morning a Kilmarnock man was driving a tractor unit on the High Road when the vehicle skidded and collided with a telegraph pole and fence. Fortunately, the driver was not injured.

In the evening of the same day an Ardrossan man was driving his car along Ardrossan Road, Saltcoats, when the vehicle skidded and collided with a Keep Left sign at the roundabout. The sign was demolished and the car slightly damaged but the driver escaped injury.

Apart from road accidents Saltcoats police report that the only trouble the worst snowfall in some years has caused is numerous complaints about youngsters throwing snow at doors, windows and street lights.

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 4th February 1972

Susan

the buses were driven to hunterston house and parked there, my father helped pulling the buses to safety with his tractor

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 JANUARY 1921

WINDOWS UNVEILED AND DEDICATED

Yesterday in South Beach U.F. Church, Saltcoats, in the presence of a large congregation, two windows were unveiled and dedicated in memory of 11 men belonging to the church who fell in the Great War.

The Rev. Charles Lamont, M.A., minister in the church, conducted the service, and the windows were unveiled by General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, M.P. for North Ayrshire.

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DIED IN SERVICE
3 JANUARY 1919

Died on service on home soil, Lance Corporal DAVID WHITE, (32), Royal Army Service Corps – husband of Mary McNairn White, 93 Raise Street, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 JANUARY 1921

WINDOWS UNVEILED AND DEDICATED

Yesterday in South Beach U.F. Church, Saltcoats, in the presence of a large congregation, two windows were unveiled and dedicated in memory of 11 men belonging to the church who fell in the Great War.

The Rev. Charles Lamont, M.A., minister in the church, conducted the service, and the windows were unveiled by General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, M.P. for North Ayrshire.

Now owned by S.B Baptist Church sadly windows removed in place of clear glass. I loved those stain glass windows but I guess upkeep too costly.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JANUARY 1926

FOOTBALL
SCOTTISH JUNIOR CUP – FOURTH ROUND

Banks o’ Dee, 0; Saltcoats Victoria, 5.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JANUARY 1924

CANARY SHOW AT SALTCOATS

Under the auspices of the Glasgow and Scottish Joint Roller Canary Club a successful open exhibition of roller canaries was held in the Masonic Hall, Saltcoats, yesterday.

There were over 100 exhibits.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JANUARY 1889

SALTCOATS – FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GLASGOW & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY

Early yesterday morning the body of Mr. ROBERT JAMIESON was found lying at the side of the railway near Springburn Cottage, about midway between South Beach and Saltcoats stations.

It appears that on Wednesday evening Mr. Jamieson had gone to the Holm Gardens at South Beach for flowers. He was, it is supposed, walking along the railway to return to Saltcoats, when in the darkness and fog he was run down by a train going in the direction of South Beach. He was struck on the forehead, and fell dead beside the railway wall. The flowers which he carried in his hand were scattered about.

It was quite dark when the accident occurred, and the body was not discovered till daylight next morning.

Mr. Jamieson resided in Uddingston, and was employed in a wholesale drapery warehouse in Glasgow. He was 32 years of age, and unmarried. He had been visiting his father, Mr. John Jamieson, who resides in Saltcoats, and for whom much sympathy is felt.