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Re: Previous Post Mrs J. Paterson.

The Paterson family lived through the wall from us when I was born in 1942, they at 9 and we at 11 Whitlees Crescent in Ardrossan. The mid-wife according to my aunt Elsie Hand who was also there was a lady by the name of McBride, a sister of Mrs Jeanie Paterson. I remember the Patersons moving up to 47 Kirkhall Drive when I was about 5 or 6.

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette
February 22, 1952

Cost Prohibitive
The Garden of Remembrance in Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, in the opinion of the Town Council, is not a suitable site for the war memorial which at present stands on South Beach Green. In any case the cost of removal and re-erection would be prohibitive. The local branch of the British Legion who made the request to the Council that the memorial be moved is to be notified of the decision,

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette
February 24, 1952

Parkhouse Reservoir
The suggestion that Parkhouse reservoir might be abandoned as such, drained off and used as a controlled tip for refuse disposal was also considered by the committee, who recommended that consideration of this matter be deferred to a later date until the Council were satisfied that the supply of water to the burgh was properly safeguarded.

HORSE TROUGH.
The water manager reported that the cost of repairs to the horse trough in Glasgow Street would amount to £13. It was agreed to recommend that the repairs be carried out. All the recommendations contained in the minute were adopted by the Council.

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette
March 6, 1942

Taffy Was A Welshman
In my young days there was a rhyme in my school books that went like this:-

Taffy was a Welshman
Taffy was a thief
Taffy came to my house
And stole a lump of beef.

Another Taffy, he must surely be another, came to Ardrossan in a ship the other day and stole a model of the barque "Loch Torridon," in a glass case, from Nicoll's pub. Probably beef was not on show. In fact I'm sure it wasn't for I haven't seen it for months. If it had been mutton - but that would be another story.
However to get back to Taffy, or Albert Edward (how patriotic) Jenkins, second cook. He was in the boozer, along with others, seated at the fireplace, and when he left the model went too. Or that's how it turned out. He was intercepted at the entrance to the Harbour with the "doings" on him. Police-Judge Hunter fined him £2.

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette
March 10, 1950

Dog in car crash won race
Two greyhounds, Tripod and Glass, were being taken by their owner, Mr Renato Marroni of 111 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, to run at Ayr Stadium on Monday, when the car in which they were travelling was involved in a collision with a motor lorry at Tam's Brig, Ayr. The car was overturned but Mr Marroni, a companion and the dogs emerged miraculously unhurt.

They proceeded to the track where Tripod won the first race, favourite at even money. Glass Iran in the sixth race but was unplaced.