Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 APRIL 1915

DEATH - BAILEY

At 8 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on 12th April, in her 92nd year, Alison Waugh Douglas widow of James Lambert Bailey, solicitor and agent of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 APRIL 1913

NORTH AYRSHIRE LICENSING COURT

It was resolved to continue ten o’clock as the closing hour in the district.

It was intimated that there were three applications for the license for the Station Hotel, Ardrossan, the property of the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company – by Mr Syme, the late lessee; by Charles R. Davidson, Kilmarnock; and by Miss Catherine Law, described as the manageress of the hotel.

Mr Murray, who appeared for the railway company, stated that after making inquiries they found Mr Davidson to be a suitable person to be a tenant, and had accordingly granted him a lease.

On Mr Murray giving an assurance that the railway company would put the hotel in a proper state of repair the license was granted to Mr Davidson.

Two applications for new licensed grocers’ at Stevenston were continued.

The following license was granted to Alexander McLean, Shawlands, Glasgow, a new tenant or occupant, for licensed grocer’s premises at 8 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 APRIL 1846

SHIPPING NEWS

Strangford, April 9 – The BRITANNIA, McMillan, has proceeded to Ardrossan for repairs, after being on shore at Pladdy Lug, as previously reported.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 APRIL 1912

AYRSHIRE LICENSING COURT

In the course of the proceedings the chairman stated he had received a letter intended to influence him with regard to a certain licence, and he warned anyone likely to write similarly to members of the Court that it would injure their cause.

Three grocers’ licenses lapsed – one each at Kilwinning, Ardrossan, and Dreghorn. Applications for renewal were granted.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 APRIL 1912

ARDROSSAN DOCK EXTENSIONS

The Ardrossan Shipbuilding Company have had their dry dock lengthened by 50 feet. The work of extension was carried on during the winter and has just been completed.

The dry dock is now 310 feet in length by 40 feet in breadth.

The new portion of the dock has been constructed so that repairs to vessels can be carried out right forward to the stern as well as other parts of the hull.

The extension has necessitated a considerable alteration to adjacent properties, the railway lines which serve the lighthouse quay having been set farther back, and some buildings have been removed altogether.

It is expected that the improved facilities will stimulate the shipbuilding and repairing business at Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 APRIL 1914

DEATH - JAMIESON

At Anderson Terrace, Ardrossan, John Jamieson, watchmaker.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1916

BIRTH - SHAW

At 3 South Crescent, Ardrossan, on the 15th April, 1916, the wife of Lieutenant-Commander C. B. Shaw, R.N.; a son (still born).

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1916

DIED ON SERVICE - WALLACE

Killed in action, on 7th April, Private Tom Wallace, son of T. Wallace, Australia, and late of Holmerkollen, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1916

BODY IDENTIFIED

The body of a man which was found on the beach at Ardrossan on Sunday morning, has been identified as Henry Gilbert, 50 years of age, belonging to Belfast. He had been employed at Dornoch, and left Annan on Saturday intending to go to Belfast to visit his wife and family.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 APRIL 1913

MARRIAGE – WHITE and BAIN

At Canal Street U.F. Church, Paisley, on the 18th instant, by the Rev. H. Morston Dunlop, William White to Jean Bain, youngest daughter of the late John Bain, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 APRIL 1913

DEATH - STRUTHERS

Suddenly, at Ardrossan, on 18th April, 1913, William Struthers, marine engineer, in his 61st year, beloved husband of Mary Strathearn Morrison, 58 Pollok Street, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 APRIL 1916

NORTH AYRSHIRE LICENSING COURT

North Ayrshire Licensing Court was held in Kilwinning yesterday – Mr W. D. Russell, Maulside, presiding.

There was no application for the public-house licence in respect of the Caledonian Bar, Ardrossan, in the name of Mrs Fleming.