Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 MAY 1913

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

Foursome competition for Mr Thomas Harvey’s prizes: -

Won by F. A. F. Crawford and D. Docherty.

Inter-Club match: -

West Kilbride Ladies, 6; Ardeer Ladies, 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 MAY 1915

DEATH – AITKEN

At Muirston, Oxhill, Dumbarton, on Friday, 28th May, Grace Hewat, relict of Andrew Aitken, and a daughter of the late Peter Hewat, Stevenston, Ayrshire.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 MAY 1915

ARDEER EXPLOSION – FATAL ACCIDENT INQUIRY AT KILMARNOCK

A public inquiry under the Fatal Accidents Inquiry Acts was held at Kilmarnock yesterday before Sheriff Robertson and a jury, regarding the recent explosion at Ardeer Dynamite Works, in which three men, Thomas McCubbin, Andrew McAllister, and Samuel Telford, lost their lives.

Formal evidence was led as to the locus of the explosion and the identity of the men involved in it, and the jury returned a simple verdict that the three men were killed in the course of their employment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 MAY 1919

DIED ON SERVICE - SMITH

Sapper Alexander Smith, R.E., amissing on 11th April, 1918, aged 22, now presumed killed, son of the late James Smith and Susan Alston Smith, Maryville, Garven Road, Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 MAY 1919

EVADING RAILWAY FARE

At Irvine J.P. Court yesterday, William Walker, 9 Limekiln Road, Stevenston, pleaded guilty to having travelled from Glengarnock to Stevenston on the Glasgow & South-Western Railway on April 28 last and giving up a Kilwinning and Stevenston ticket for the journey, thereby evading payment of the fare Glengarnock to Kilwinning.

He was fined for 30s.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 JUNE 1916

NOBEL’S WORKERS’ WAGES

A meeting of the workers in Messrs Nobel’s factory, Ardeer, was held in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, on Tuesday evening, when Mr Andrew Lennox presided over a crowded gathering.

Mr James Houghton, general secretary of the Scottish Union, who addressed the meeting, said they had met to discuss the demand for an increase in wages.

Since the war commenced the workers in Nobel’s factory had received by bonuses and advances in wages an increase of 7s 3d per week. The increase in the cost of living had been greater than the increase in their wages.

Under their agreement with the company they could not request an increase in wages till October, but they could apply for an additional bonus, and that was what he suggested should be done.

The meeting decided to request an additional bonus of 1d per hour on the actual hours worked.

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 JUNE 1915

DEATH – CUNINGHAME

At Auchenharvie, Stevenston, Ayrshire, on Monday the 7th instant, Cunningham Glencairn Robertson Cuninghame of Auchenharvie.

GLASGOW HERALD
8 JUNE 1915

THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN CUNINGHAME OF AUCHENHARVIE

Captain Cunningham Glencairn Robertson Cuninghame of Auchenharvie, Stevenston, died at his residence yesterday. He was formerly in the 4th Hussars, but retired some years ago, and spent most of his time at London and Auchenharvie. While in the Army he was on active service in Egypt, and was present at the capture of Arabi Pasha. He was a member of the Ayrshire Hunt, and engaged in big game hunting in Abyssinia. His estate in Ayrshire was famous for its minerals, and parts of Saltcoats and Stevenston are built on it.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JUNE 1917

DEATH – CRAWFORD

At Jesmond, Stevenston, on 7th instant, John Crawford, late of Knockewart, Dalry.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JUNE 1916

GOLDEN WEDDING – PATON and ORR

Mr and Mrs Paton celebrated their golden wedding in a quiet way at their residence, 2 Alexandra Terrace, Kilbirnie.

Mr Paton was born at Hayocks, Stevenston parish, in 1841, and went to Kilbirnie 54 years ago, for 51 years of which he has been in the employment of Messrs W. & J. Knox, and for 32 years foreman bleacher to that firm. Mrs Paton, whose maiden name is Margaret Orr, was born in Kilbirnie in 1838.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 JUNE 1919

ELECTRIC LIGHT

At a meeting of the Northern District Committee of Ayrshire County Council at Kilwinning yesterday it was pointed out that permission was granted in December last to Kilmarnock Corporation to pass through the district an overhead power cable from Irvine to Stevenston, and that the cable had since been extended to Ardrossan.

The County Council, it was announced, had granted a further application for a branch cable from Ardrossan to Dalry.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JUNE 1915

STEVENSTON COTTAGE DESTROYED

Early yesterday morning fire broke out in Bydand Cottage, Dynamite Road, Stevenston, the property of William Taylor, and occupied by him.

The fire originated near the roof, and it is supposed to have been caused by a fire in the chimney. It spread quickly and in a short period the cottage was burned.

The loss will amount to about £500.

A section of Nobel’s Explosives Factory fire brigade turned out and rendered assistance.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 JUNE 1915

BOWLING

Result: - Glengarnock, 81; Ardeer, 104.