Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 FEBRUARY 1919

BOARD OF TRADE LONG SERVICE MEDAL

Ex-Chief Boatman James Dimmick, who already holds the Long Service Medal for nearly 30 years’ service in the Navy and Coastguard, was presented on Saturday with the Board of Trade’s Long Service Medal for 20 years’ service in the Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus Brigade in Ardrossan.

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EVENING TIMES
11 FEBRUARY 1974

WITNESS TELLS OF FIGHT OUTSIDE CLUB

A witness told the High Court in Glasgow today of a pavement fight outside a Port Glasgow club in which a man died.

Robert Bell, (25), of 23 East Crawford Street, Greenock, described how he saw an unconscious man lying on the ground with blood coming from the back of his head.

In the dock was Ian Hargie, (24), of 69 Marloch Avenue, Port Glasgow, who denies a charge of murder.

The charge alleged that on November 15 last year in Highholm Street, Port Glasgow, Hargie assaulted Emile Robertson, (36), of 11 Winton Court, Ardrossan, whereby he was so severely injured that he died in Greenock Royal Infirmary the following day he “did murder him.”

Hargie has put forward a special defence of self-defence.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 FEBRUARY 1974

SPECIAL PLEA AT TRIAL

Ian Hargie, (24), pled self-defence at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday when he denied the murder of a workmate who called his wife a “dirty cow.”

Hargie, a burner of 69 Marloch Avenue, Port Glasgow, admitted that he Emile Robertson, aged 36, twice with a piece of brick outside a club, but maintained he had done so out of fear of Robertson who had been attacking him.

The trial continues.

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EVENING TIMES
12 FEBRUARY 1974

HE KILLED MAN AFTER WIFE INSULT

Port Glasgow shipyard plater, Ian Hargie, (24), was jailed for four years today at the High Court at Glasgow after the jury found him guilty of culpable homicide.

Hargie of 69 Marloch Drive, had pled not guilty to murdering Emile Robertson, (36).

The jury had returned a culpable homicide verdict after 30 minutes.

Yesterday the jury heard how Hargie met Robertson in the Royal Artillery Club in Highholm Street, Port Glasgow, last November.

Hargie said that the dead man told him his wife was a dirty cow. Hargie claimed Robertson threw a stone at him outside the club and kept coming at him.

Robertson of 11 Winton Court, Ardrossan, died in hospital next day.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 FEBRUARY 1974

FOUR YEARS FOR PORT GLASGOW KILLING

Ian Hargie, a plater, of 69 Marloch Avenue, Port Glasgow, was jailed for four years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday, after a jury by a majority found him guilty of a reduced charge of culpable homicide.

Hargie denied having murdered Emile Robertson, aged 36, of 11 Winton Court, Ardrossan, outside a social club in Port Glasgow on November 15.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

BIRTH - McARTHUR

At Elrig, Ardrossan, on the 12th instant, the wife of the Rev. Dugald McArthur, B.D. (Black Watch); a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

MARRIAGE – McDOWALL and MacMILLAN

At the Eglinton Hotel, Ardrossan, on 12th February, by the Rev. R. M. Adamson, M.A., David McDowall, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to Mary MacClymont, elder daughter of the late Gilbert MacMillan and Mrs MacMillan, Glasgow Street, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

PROHIBITION

At a meeting of Ardrossan U.F. Presbytery a resolution was passed demanding prohibition during the war and for the period of demobilisation.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 FEBRUARY 1916

BOARD OF TRADE LONG-SERVICE MEDAL

On Saturday afternoon, Mr Robert Hastings, Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, was presented with a long-service medal by the Board of Trade for 30 years work in connection with the life-saving apparatus.

Provost Chrystie made the presentation and Divisional Commander Graham, from Greenock, represented the Board of Trade.

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EVENING TIMES
16 FEBRUARY 1965

AWARD FOR RESCUE BID SEAMAN

A 35-year-old Ardrossan seaman who went to the rescue of a shipmate has been awarded a Royal Humane Society testimonial on parchment.

Able Seaman Stanley Haggart, of Kirkhall Drive, Ardrossan, went to the rescue of another member of the crew of the motor vessel CAERNARVONBROOK, who had fallen into Portishead Dock, Somerset.

Haggart, a poor swimmer, put on a lifebelt and jumped into the water after his shipmate, who had slipped and fallen from the ship’s gangplank on October 27.

At the time a Dutch vessel was berthing alongside the CAERNARVONBROOK increasing the danger of the rescue.

Haggart swam to the other man and got him back to the quay.

Another member of the crew applied artificial respiration for half an hour, but the man was dead.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 FEBRUARY 1915

ARDROSSAN MINISTER RESIGNS

At a meeting of the members of Ardrossan E.U. Congregational Church last night, the Rev. John MacMillan tendered his resignation as minister of the congregation.

The Rev. Mr MacMillan has been over six years in Ardrossan, and prior to that was in Blantyre.

He is giving up his Ardrossan charge in order to devote himself to mission work.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 FEBRUARY 1915

ASSISTANT ENGLISH TEACHER – ARDROSSAN ACADEMY

Mr Alexander Penman, M.A., Dalbeattie, assistant teacher in the Higher Grade School, has received an appointment as assistant English teacher in Ardrossan Academy. Mr Penman was secretary of Dalbeattie Choral Society, and also rendered much service to the cricket club.