Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 JULY 1877

DEATH - BOYD

At Boglemart Street, Stevenston, on the 23rd instant, aged 72, Margaret Cochrane, wife of John Boyd, late manager, Stevenston Gas-works.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 JULY 1888

MARRIAGE – KATER and GRAY

At Ardeer, Stevenston, on the 25th instant, by the Rev. R. J. Kyd, parish minister, assisted by the Rev. J. Livingston, Robert McCulloch Kater, to Jane Gray, eldest daughter of Mr John Gray, Ardeer Mains.

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JULY 1889

THEFT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday, Agnes McCracken, Schoolwell Street, Stevenston, was charged with the theft on the 22nd instant, from her father’s home, of a jacket and two sheets.

She pled guilty, and having been several times previously convicted, was sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment, and thereafter confined three years in a reformatory school.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 JULY 1896

ASSAULT AND BREACH OF THE PEACE AT STEVENSTON

At Ardrossan J.P. Court yesterday, William McIntyre, a tramp wire worker, was charged with having, on Saturday forenoon, assaulted Mrs Maxwell, lodging-house keeper, at her house in Townhead Street, Stevenston.

It appears that accused went to the house after getting drunk, and on being refused admittance struck the woman twice on the face.

Fined 10s 6d, or seven days.

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EVENING TIMES
29 JULY 1963

ARDEER ROCKED BY EXPLOSION

Startled holidaymakers on Ayrshire beaches heard three violent explosions today.

Clouds of black smoke then spiralled into the sky from the direction of I.C.I.’s Nobel Works, Ardeer, near Stevenston.

No one was injured, however.

“The explosions were in the black-powder department,” a spokesman said afterwards. “The men are not present while the process goes on in this particular building.”

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 JULY 1971

150 STAFF JOBS LOST AT I.C.I.

Staff jobs at the I.C.I. mainly concentrated at Ardeer, Ayrshire, will be reduced by 150 by the end of the year, the company announced yesterday.

About 200 jobs have already been affected in the division through natural wastage.

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 JULY 1914

MARRIAGE – LUNDHOLM and AUCHENCLOSS

At Gardens Church, Cape Town, on 29th July, by the Rev, Mr McClure, Gustav Lundholm, second son of Mr and Mrs C. O. Lundholm, Upper Norwood, London (formerly of Ardeer) to Agnes Barr Auchencloss, M.B., Ch.B. (Glasgow), eldest daughter of the late James Currie Auchencloss (formerly of Glenfield, Paisley), and Mrs Auchencloss, Saltcoats – by cable – residence, Modderfontein, Transvaal.

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 JULY 1926

DISTRICT COMMITTEE AND AYRSHIRE CAMPERS

As a result of the extraordinary increases in camping along the Ayrshire coast, the question of sanitary arrangements has been under consideration by the Northern District Committee of the Ayrshire County Council, and it has been remitted to the Public Health Committee to go fully into the matter and report.

In a statement to the District Committee the sanitary inspector stated that recently there were 201 tents at Stevenston, and the occupants numbered 1025 adults and 151 children. In addition, there were 41 tents in gardens.

The local authority was powerless to deal with these campers under the present by-laws.

There were 69 tents at Ardrossan and 115 tents at West Kilbride.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 AUGUST 1913

STRIKE AT NOBEL’S FACTORY

About 100 bogie-runners employed at Nobel’s Explosives Factory, Stevenston, came out on strike yesterday.

The cause of the dispute is believed to have risen in the gelatine department, where a man was asked by his foreman to do some work which he considered should be done by another worker. He refused to do it, and on the matter being reported he was suspended for six days. His fellow workers resented this being done, and they resolved not to resume work until he had been reinstated

Yesterday all the runners, including the man suspended, were at the factory gates, but they did not commence work. In consequence the girls employed in that department were unable to get to work and they were told to go home. In all between 600 and 700 are idle.

At a meeting of the men on strike held in the Temperance Institute, Stevenston, last night, Mr Gilbert Lewis, president of the Scottish Dockers’ Union, delivered an address. Subsequently a motion not to resume work until the man suspended had been reinstated was carried by a large majority.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 AUGUST 1913

STRIKE AT NOBEL’S FACTORY

There is no change in the situation at Nobel’s Explosives Factory, Stevenston. The men who ceased working because a co-worker had been suspended are still on strike, and the girls not able to commence until the men have made a start, have been sent home. Yesterday morning several hundred of these girls were at the factory expecting to get to work.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 AUGUST 1970

DEATH OF MONSIGNOR JOHN McQUILLAN

Monsignor John McQuillan, former parish priest and seminary professor has died in Kingussie. He was 81.

Monsignor McQuillan was born in Mossend, Lanarkshire, studied for priesthood at St. Mary’s College, Blairs, Aberdeen, and the Scots College, Rome.

In 1943 he was appointed parish priest at St. John’s, Stevenston, and from 1950 until his retirement in 1964 he was parish priest at Troon.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 AUGUST 1913

ARDEER FACTORY DISPUTE SETTLED

The dispute in the gelatine department of Nobel’s Explosives Factory was settled on Saturday and the following notice by Mr Nathan, works manager, was posted: -

“I have investigated the case of F. Bowers, and after hearing him I am satisfied that he was guilty of a breach of the factory rules. Mr Bowers admitted his offence to me, and moreover as certain extenuating circumstances exist, I have reduced Bowers’s suspension from six to four days.”

The strike arose through the suspension of Bowers for refusing to do some work which he considered should not be done by him. His co-workers resolved to cease working until he was reinstated. Their action caused about 400 girls and nearly 100 other men to be temporarily thrown out of employment.

It is expected that work will be resumed today.