Re: Looking Back - Herald files
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:41 pm
From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on December 19, 2007
100 YEARS AGO on December 20, 1907
Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston Choral Society rendered The Messiah in Saltcoats last night, the conductor being Mr WG Burgoyne.
Building operations have commenced in connection with the new extension to Stevenston Secondary School and work has began making the new road at Ardoch Crescent
Ardrossan Army Cadets, to the number of 33, travelled to Glasgow yesterday to attend a lecture by Lord Baden-Powell.
There has been an epidemic of burglaries locally. On Sunday morning, early on, thieves entered the premises of Saltcoats Laundry Company and attempted to blow up the the safe. They were unsuccessful.
The annual meeting of the Hope Of Saltcoats Tent of Rechabites was held in the Canal Street Hall on Wednesday
A concert under the auspices of the IOGT Anchor Lodge was held on Saturday in the Good Templars' Hall, with a variety of contrasting singers and a comedian.
The new committee were appointed at the annual meeting of the William Knox Institute, Kilbimnie.
50 YEARS AGO on December 20, 1957
There were 25 arrivals, including three all tankers, at Ardrossan Harbour for the weekend December 14.
Mr James B Morton, Director In Charge, Ardrossan Harbour, invited us last week to look over the many alterations made to the different tradesmen's departments. A transformation has been affected since we last visited the premises some years ago.
The first visit was to the general store, which has taken in a tenement building and an old eating house. This place has been modernised and has in stock almost everything that the tradesmen may require at short notice.
This store is so situated that engineers, Joiners and blacksmiths do not require to to leave the building to reach the store, which is built in two flats, with the office of the foreman engineer, on top. This also has been modernised. At one time the dockers had no set place to keep their tools, but now there is a place set apart where each man has his own lock-up.
Our next visit was to the old Transformer House, which is the old power station. This building controls the electricity coming throughout the harbour and contains a great deal of valuable machinery. The Ardrossan Harbour has certainly been given a new look which places it among the most modern ports in the country
At Ardrossan Burgh Police Court on Monday morning, a 17 year-old Ardrossan youth admitted assaulting a 12-year-old Saltcoats boy by striking him with his fist. The fiscal said the 17-year-old was the owner of a canoe which was beached on the shore. Two schoolboys who had been walking on the beach turned it over - because they said. they wanted to see if it had a name - and the youth, who was observing nearby, thought they were interfering with the craft and ran up and struck one of them.
He said later: "I lost my temper." He added that it was for their own safety as they could have drowned and that they had sworn at him. The youth was admonished.
By the death on Tuesday morning of Mr James Campbell, Snr, WS JP, the district has lost one of its most prominent citizens. He was 81 years of age, and he passed away at his home, Kerelaw, Stevenston, after a short illness. He is survived by his widow and a family of two sons and three daughters, to whom much sympathy will be extended. Mr Campbell's youngest son, Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell, was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously during the Second World War.
25 YEARS AGO on December 31, 1982
Council dogcatcher Janis Patterson was at the centre of a Christmas Eve drama when her quick actions saved an elderly Stevenston woman's life. Mrs Catherina MacFarlane, of New Street, had collapsed in her home as Janis called in to collect a neighbour's keys. Straight away she went to the woman's aid, applying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
"I knew Mrs McFarlane had been in for an operation. When I heard her collapse I immediately rushed to her aid," said Janis. Fortunately, Janis had received nursing training which helped her diagnose Mrs MacFarlane's heart trouble,
A Christmas Eve tragedy stunned the congregation of a Saltcoats church. Mrs Flora Johnston, wife of St Cuthbert's Church minister the Rev John Johnston, died suddenly at their home just before 9pm. She had been watching television with her husband and her mother when she was taken Ill. The Christmas Eve service due to stake place at St Cuthbert's from 11.15pm was cancelled, Mrs Johnston (50) had taken an active part in local church life since moving to Saltcoats from Glasgow with her husband about two years ago. She was also a member of the local Inner Wheel, the female branch of the Rotary movement
A young mother is living in fear in her Ardrossan council home after the central heating boiler burst into flames. Now the incident has sparked a controversy over the safety of the central heating system for houses in the town's Chapelhill Mount area. On Christmas Sunday night, 25-years old Adrienne Guthrie fled from her house at 47 Chapelhill Mount, clutching her three year old daughter Cheryl and screaming for help. According to friends and neighbours in the house at the time, black smoke started billowing from the central heating boiler, followed by flames. "I just panicked," Miss Guthrie told The Herald. Now she dreads using the heating at all. Two fire tenders continued the damage to the kitchen.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original
100 YEARS AGO on December 20, 1907
Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston Choral Society rendered The Messiah in Saltcoats last night, the conductor being Mr WG Burgoyne.
Building operations have commenced in connection with the new extension to Stevenston Secondary School and work has began making the new road at Ardoch Crescent
Ardrossan Army Cadets, to the number of 33, travelled to Glasgow yesterday to attend a lecture by Lord Baden-Powell.
There has been an epidemic of burglaries locally. On Sunday morning, early on, thieves entered the premises of Saltcoats Laundry Company and attempted to blow up the the safe. They were unsuccessful.
The annual meeting of the Hope Of Saltcoats Tent of Rechabites was held in the Canal Street Hall on Wednesday
A concert under the auspices of the IOGT Anchor Lodge was held on Saturday in the Good Templars' Hall, with a variety of contrasting singers and a comedian.
The new committee were appointed at the annual meeting of the William Knox Institute, Kilbimnie.
50 YEARS AGO on December 20, 1957
There were 25 arrivals, including three all tankers, at Ardrossan Harbour for the weekend December 14.
Mr James B Morton, Director In Charge, Ardrossan Harbour, invited us last week to look over the many alterations made to the different tradesmen's departments. A transformation has been affected since we last visited the premises some years ago.
The first visit was to the general store, which has taken in a tenement building and an old eating house. This place has been modernised and has in stock almost everything that the tradesmen may require at short notice.
This store is so situated that engineers, Joiners and blacksmiths do not require to to leave the building to reach the store, which is built in two flats, with the office of the foreman engineer, on top. This also has been modernised. At one time the dockers had no set place to keep their tools, but now there is a place set apart where each man has his own lock-up.
Our next visit was to the old Transformer House, which is the old power station. This building controls the electricity coming throughout the harbour and contains a great deal of valuable machinery. The Ardrossan Harbour has certainly been given a new look which places it among the most modern ports in the country
At Ardrossan Burgh Police Court on Monday morning, a 17 year-old Ardrossan youth admitted assaulting a 12-year-old Saltcoats boy by striking him with his fist. The fiscal said the 17-year-old was the owner of a canoe which was beached on the shore. Two schoolboys who had been walking on the beach turned it over - because they said. they wanted to see if it had a name - and the youth, who was observing nearby, thought they were interfering with the craft and ran up and struck one of them.
He said later: "I lost my temper." He added that it was for their own safety as they could have drowned and that they had sworn at him. The youth was admonished.
By the death on Tuesday morning of Mr James Campbell, Snr, WS JP, the district has lost one of its most prominent citizens. He was 81 years of age, and he passed away at his home, Kerelaw, Stevenston, after a short illness. He is survived by his widow and a family of two sons and three daughters, to whom much sympathy will be extended. Mr Campbell's youngest son, Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell, was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously during the Second World War.
25 YEARS AGO on December 31, 1982
Council dogcatcher Janis Patterson was at the centre of a Christmas Eve drama when her quick actions saved an elderly Stevenston woman's life. Mrs Catherina MacFarlane, of New Street, had collapsed in her home as Janis called in to collect a neighbour's keys. Straight away she went to the woman's aid, applying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
"I knew Mrs McFarlane had been in for an operation. When I heard her collapse I immediately rushed to her aid," said Janis. Fortunately, Janis had received nursing training which helped her diagnose Mrs MacFarlane's heart trouble,
A Christmas Eve tragedy stunned the congregation of a Saltcoats church. Mrs Flora Johnston, wife of St Cuthbert's Church minister the Rev John Johnston, died suddenly at their home just before 9pm. She had been watching television with her husband and her mother when she was taken Ill. The Christmas Eve service due to stake place at St Cuthbert's from 11.15pm was cancelled, Mrs Johnston (50) had taken an active part in local church life since moving to Saltcoats from Glasgow with her husband about two years ago. She was also a member of the local Inner Wheel, the female branch of the Rotary movement
A young mother is living in fear in her Ardrossan council home after the central heating boiler burst into flames. Now the incident has sparked a controversy over the safety of the central heating system for houses in the town's Chapelhill Mount area. On Christmas Sunday night, 25-years old Adrienne Guthrie fled from her house at 47 Chapelhill Mount, clutching her three year old daughter Cheryl and screaming for help. According to friends and neighbours in the house at the time, black smoke started billowing from the central heating boiler, followed by flames. "I just panicked," Miss Guthrie told The Herald. Now she dreads using the heating at all. Two fire tenders continued the damage to the kitchen.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original