Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 MAY 1897

DEATH

WALLACE: Suddenly at Laurel Bank, Dunoon, on the 27th instant, R. C. Wallace, late engineer, Glasgow and Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 MAY 1897

ARDROSSAN – FATAL RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT

On Saturday morning PATRICK DRANEY, employed as a coal trimmer on the harbour, died in his lodgings, Harbour Lane, Ardrossan, as the result of an accident he met with on Tuesday evening.

Draney was engaged with others in loading the steamer CILURNUM with coal when he slipped from the gangway and fell between the side of the steamer and the quay wall.

When picked up he was able to walk home with the assistance of two fellow-workmen, and serious results were not at first anticipated.

Draney was 53 years of age and unmarried.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 JUNE 1896

SERIOUS BREACH OF THE PEACE

At Ardrossan Burgh Court on Saturday morning, JOHN GARDNER, baker, Saltcoats, and COLIN ROSS, canvasser, Glasgow, were charged with breach of the peace.

Ross pleaded not guilty and Gardner guilty.

It appeared Ross and Gardner met in the train at Saltcoats, and travelled to Ardrossan in the same compartment. When they alighted at Ardrossan Gardner struck Ross several blows on the face with a bottle, inflicting ugly wounds.

The charge against Ross was found not proven. Gardner was sentenced to pay a fine of £1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 JUNE 1896

ASSAULT

At Ardrossan Burgh Court on Saturday morning – before Bailie Anderson – JAMES MORGAN, tramp, pleaded not guilty to having the previous night in Princes Lane, Ardrossan, (1) assaulted William Murphy, pedlar, and (2) committed a breach of the peace.

It appears that Morgan and Murphy were in a chipped potato shop in that quarter at that time, and that the latter in mistake lifted the plate belonging to the accused. Both retired to the street, when accused caught Murphy by the throat and struck him several vigorous blows.

The charge was found proven, and a fine of 20s or 14 days’ imprisonment imposed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JUNE 1891

BIRTH

ROBERTSON: At 5 The Crescent, Ardrossan, Ayrshire, on the 31st of May, the wife of Alexander Robertson; a son.

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WIKIPEDIA
2 JUNE 1924

ARDROSSAN WINTON PIER RAILWAY STATION

Ardrossan Pier Station, which opened on the 27th of July 1840, was renamed Ardrossan Winton Pier station on the 2nd of June 1924, to avoid confusion with the station on Montgomerie Pier.

ARDROSSAN MONTGOMERIE PIER RAILWAY STATION

Ardrossan Pier station, which opened on the 30th of May 1890, was renamed Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier station on the 2nd of June 1924, to avoid confusion with the station on Winton Pier.

ARDROSSAN NORTH RAILWAY STATION

Ardrossan Railway Station, which opened on the 3rd of September 1888, and renamed Ardrossan Town Railway Station on the 1st of October 1906, was renamed Ardrossan North Railway Station on the 2nd of June 1924, to avoid confusion with the station in Princes Street.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JUNE 1898

ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD FINANCE

At the monthly meeting, held in the Town Hall yesterday, Mr. Cook, clerk to the Board, submitted a statement of estimated income and expenditure for the coming year, which showed as follows: - income, £2240; expenditure, £3805 – an apparent deficiency of £1565. He recommended that £1600 be the sum asked for from the rating authority, being £200 in excess of the sum asked last year.

The recommendation was adopted.

On the motion of the Rev. R. M. Adamson, seconded by the chairman of the Board, it was agreed to instruct the clerk to prepare a minute expressive of the Board’s sense of the services rendered to education in the parish by the late ex-Provost Hogarth, and of the sympathy with the bereaved widow and family, to whom an excerpt is to be sent.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JUNE 1892

MESSR BURN’S DAYLIGHT SERVICES

The Royal Mail paddle steamship ADDER yesterday began her summer sailings between Ardrossan and Belfast.

By this route the mail from port to port is made in four hours.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JUNE 1892

THE NEW STEAMER GLEN SANNOX – EXTRAORDINARY SPEED

On a trial run yesterday in the Firth of Clyde the new steamer GLEN SANNOX, recently built by Messrs James & George Thomson Limited, for the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company’s Ardrossan and Arran service, attained an extraordinary speed 20-25 knots.

The weather was very stormy.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JUNE 1899

ARRAN STEAMERS IN COLLISION

Yesterday morning, on the early run from Arran, a collision of a somewhat alarming character took place between the passenger steamers of the two steamship companies.

The Caledonian steamer DUCHESS OF HAMILTON was replaced by the MARCHIONESS OF LORNE. The Caledonian steamer is timed to leave Brodick 10 minutes before the Glasgow and South-Western steamer. Yesterday morning the GLEN SANNOX overtook the MARCHIONESS OF LORNE outside Ardrossan Harbour. The two steamers collided, the GLEN SANNOX being struck on the sponson, the MARCHIONESS OF LORNE in the bows. The latter was slightly damaged, the former not at all.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JUNE 1884

DISCHARGING A LOADED GUN

On Saturday, 31st May, at a special Justice of the Peace Court held in the Town Hall, Ardrossan – Provost Hogarth presiding – CHARLES WOTHERSPOON, master of the schooner LAVINIA of Campbeltown, at present lying in the harbour of Ardrossan, was charged with committing a breach of the peace and discharging a loaded gun on Friday evening while in a state of intoxication.

The accused pleaded not guilty, and after several witnesses had been examined, Provost Hogarth found the charge proved, and inflicted a fine of 5s or three days’ imprisonment. The fine was paid.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 JUNE 1896

DEATH

OSBORNE: Drowned at Ardrossan Harbour, Samuel Osborne, ship steward. Funeral today from Cardonald Station at 3 o’clock.