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GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1875

ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD

On Thursday afternoon this board met in the secretary’s office – Provost Barr in the chair.

The Clerk reported the following as the prices of sites and contracts for new schools, the building of which has just commenced: -

Ardrossan (No. 2) School, £5,860; Saltcoats School, £5,600.

He also intimated that he had applied to the Public Works Loan Commission for £10,000 payable in 50 yearly instalments, and he had received a form from the Commissioners for filling up.

The Clerk’s action in the matter was approved.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1875

THE COAST SEASON AND THE RIVER STEAMERS

The steamer ROTHESAY CASTLE has resumed her daily sailings to Arran via Ardrossan.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1878

VESSEL SPOKEN

NYMPH, from Ardrossan bound for Berbice (Guyana), May 14th.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1879

DEATH

CAMPBELL: At 26 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on the 16th instant, in her 83rd year, Mary Brownlie, relict of John Campbell, formerly Glasgow.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1900

BIRTH

CHRYSTIE: At 18 The Crescent, Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, Mrs James B. Chrystie; a daughter.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1904

PORT PARAGRAPH

Messrs Renfrew Brothers, engineers, Irvine, are to repair the Irvine Harbour dredger and tug-boat.

After dredging 10,500 tons from the river at Irvine last month, the dredger is now lying at the Black Wharf, Ardrossan.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1905

DEATH

STEWART: At Glasgow, on the 16th instant, Captain Alexander G. Stewart (Allan Line), aged 51 years, eldest son of Captain James Stewart, Ardrossan. Funeral from Maryland, Caledonia Road, Ardrossan, on Thursday 18th current, to Ardrossan Cemetery.

GLASGOW HERALD
18 MAY 1870

VESSEL SPOKEN

FRANCIS, (brig), of Ardrossan, from Bristol to Cadiz, 14 days out, all well, April 20, in latitude 45 12N, longitude 37W.

GLASGOW HERALD
18 MAY 1901

DEATH

SHEARER: At 214 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 17th instant, Alexander Shearer, aged 41 years.

GLASGOW HERALD
19 MAY 1900

BIRTH

DICKINSON: At Kingarth, Ardrossan, on the 17th instant, the wife of William Dickinson; a daughter.

GLASGOW HERALD
19 MAY 1908

DEATH

ALLAN: At the Eglinton Stables, Ardrossan, on the 17th instant, John H. Allan, in his 37th year.

CASUALTY OF WAR
19 MAY 1917

Died on service, Rifleman ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS MEIKLE, Service No. 553251, 16th Battalion London Regiment – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – enlisted at Stevenston; resident of Ardrossan.