Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1913

VIPs TRAVEL FROM ARDROSSAN

The Marquis of Headfort and the Right Hon. Lord Athlumney crossed from Ardrossan to Belfast by the R.M.S. PARTRIDGE last night.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1913

DEATH - WALKER

At Crichton Institution, Dumfries, on 13th September, William Greig Walker, aged 37 years, late teacher, Ardrossan Academy, eldest son of the late John Walker, Langside, Dalry.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 SEPTEMBER 1872

A SAVAGE WIFE BEATER

At the Police Court yesterday, before Provost Barr and Bailie Hogarth, Robert Craig, fireman, residing in Glasgow Street, whose respectable appearance betokened better conduct, pleaded guilty to committing serious assault on Mary McGhee or Craig, his wife, on the previous Saturday night.

It appeared from the evidence of Dr Wallace that the poor woman was in a sad condition, her face having been disfigured, while various parts of her body revealed some dangerous wounds, the result of different blows with clenched fists and kicks from the feet.

According to the evidence of the medical man the woman was not quite out of danger; and in the circumstances the Magistrates remitted the prisoner to the Sheriff. He was therefore conveyed to Kilmarnock yesterday afternoon.

The Provost remarked it was a pity the lash could not be applied in this case.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 SEPTEMBER 1911

FATAL SHUNTING ACCIDENT AT ARDROSSAN

A locomotive fireman, Frank Fingland, (20), who resided in Park Road, Ardrossan, succumbed in Kilmarnock Infirmary on Saturday afternoon to injuries received on Friday night while shunting operations were being conducted in the Ardrossan goods yard.

The two large driving vehicles on one side of the engine on which he was fireman passed over his legs, practically severing them on below the knee and the other above the ankle.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 SEPTEMBER 1912

PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO ARDROSSAN ACADEMY

At a meeting of Ardrossan School Board yesterday – Rev. J. Kirkland Cameron presiding – there was submitted a letter from the Education Department calling upon the Board to provide, without further delay, adequate gymnasium accommodation at the Academy, and also rooms for the practical teaching of housewifery.

The chairman said it was but a few years since the Board had been required to make certain additions to the academy, and they had then built six additional rooms, although the demand of the Department was for four.

At that time, they were assured that no further demands would be made for a considerable time, and now they had not only the present demand, but they were faced with the necessity of adding to the accommodation at Saltcoats Public School.

In view of these facts, and seeing that only five members of the Board were present, it was agreed to delay further consideration of the gymnasium in question till after the new Year.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 September 1912

VIPs TRAVEL FROM ARDROSSAN

The Duke and Duchess of Abercorn travelled from Ardrossan to Belfast last night per Messrs G. & J. Burns’s R.M.S. PARTRIDGE. Lady Alexandra Hamilton also travelled by this route.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 SEPTEMBER 1913

RETIRING ARDROSSAN COUNCILLORS

The members of Ardrossan Town Council who retire next month are Bailie Flinn, Bailie Fawcett, and Mr Stewart.

Bailie Flinn and Mr Stewart have served the full term of three years. One of other three members who had served only two years, and all of whom were elected to the Council without a contest, had to make the third retiring member, and in order to save a ballot, Bailie Fawcett volunteered to retire and seek re-election.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 SEPTEMBER 1914

MARRIAGE – MAGOWAN and IRVINE

At Rockmount, Ardrossan, the residence of the bride, on 15th September, by the Rev. Campbell Stephen, minister of Park United Free Church, Ardrossan, Dr. Samuel MacDonald MacGowan, Provincial Bank, Belfast, to Elizabeth Good, fourth daughter of the late Archibald A. Irvine, Cumnock, and Mrs A. Irvine, Rockmount, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 SEPTEMBER 1971

POLICE CHASE ENDS IN FATAL CRASH

A young man died and his two companions were seriously injured early today when the van in which they were being pursued by a police car failed to negotiate the Cross at Irvine, Ayrshire, and crashed into the front of a shop.

The vehicle in which the three were trapped, caught fire. Police put out the blaze with extinguishers. Then firemen extricated the occupants.

A doctor found one of the men was already dead. His companions were given a police car escort as an ambulance took them to hospital in Kilmarnock. Both had serious injuries.

[Later newspaper reports indicate that William Nicol Slaven, 27 Winton Street, Ardrossan, died in this accident, and that John Cameron Robertson, (20), also 27 Winton Street, lost his left leg. The third person was someone the former two had stopped and given a lift to from Stevenston.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 SEPTEMBER 1910

HOLIDAY RESORT – ARDROSSAN

During the past week the weather has been fine, with misty frosty mornings, followed by warm sunshine. The grain crops are mostly well secured in the neighbourhood. Visitors are few, and the steamers at the harbour are no longer busy.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 SEPTEMBER 1912

VIP TRAVELS FROM ARDROSSAN

Sir James Bell, Baronet, travelled from Ardrossan to Belfast last night per Messrs G. & J. Burns’s R.M.S. WOODCOCK.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 SEPTEMBER 1913

VIP TRAVELS FROM ARDROSSAN

Lord Dunleath crossed from Ardrossan to Belfast with the R.M.S. WOODCOCK last night.