Re: Looking Back - Herald files
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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 24, 2009
150 YEARS AGO in June 1859
MR James Strachan treasurer of the Free Church, Kilbirnie, for 12 years was presented with a silver box containing a sum of money for his valuable service to the church.
THE steamer Isle of Arran is easily caught in the morning by getting up at 5.30am. The visitors leave at six and are driven down for a trifling sum to Brodick. The steamer arrives at Ardrossan shortly after eight.
THE Earl of Eglinton, the gallant Peer of tournament fame, who has twice discharged so popularly the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has in the Honours List advanced a step in the Peerage and will henceforth sit in the House of Lords as Earl of Winton instead of Baron Ardrossan.
100 YEARS AGO in June 1909
WEST Kilbride Parish Council have appointed Mr William Gray as registrar for the principal division of the parish of West Kilbride at a salary of £12 per annum.
THE first sports organised by Ardrossan Academy (and the first under scholastic auspices in the district) were held in the Glebe Park last Saturday. There were 33 events.
AT the AGM of Ardeer Thistle FC the following office-bearers were elected: - President, Mr Fred Small; vice-president, Mr William Marshall; treasurer, Mr Alex Wilson; secretary, Mr John Bell; committee, Messrs G Hynds, F Stevenson, J Dow, H Leckie junior, J Hamilton, H Lockhart, T Patrick, J McWhinnie, J Fairbairn, P Logan and A Celso.
AT a pianoforte playing examination in Kilmarnock the following local pupils were successful: - Miss Janet Ford, Miss Jeanie Scott, Miss Martha Keddie, all pupils of Miss Stirrat, Saltcoats, and Miss Cathie Herdman, Miss Kate Andrew and Miss Agnes Campbell, pupils of Miss Mackay, Ardrossan.
50 YEARS AGO in June 1959
AFTER considering letters from four tenants of shops in Central Avenue, Ardrossan Town Council have agreed to stick to a previous decision that shop tenants desiring gates or doors to the back porches of the shops will require to provide these themselves.
MEMBERS of Ardrossan Town Council's Housing Committee are to inspect housing scheme gardens on June 22. The council have given authority to the Burgh Factor to arrange for the cutting of grass for tenants considered to be in need of assistance.
On June 29 the Committee are carrying out another inspection-this time they are to visit houses erected by Messrs William Loudon and Son at the Community Centre site.
SALTCOATS Beach Pavilion opens for the season with a carnival dance tonight (Friday), when the first heat of A Saltcoats TV queen contest will be held. The Saltcoats Pierrots Show has its first performance tomorrow (Saturday).
AFTER consideration of circulars from the Board of Trade and the Department of Health on the subject of derelict sites under the Distribution of Industries ATC, 1945, Ardrossan Town Council are to write to the Departments and inquire whether a grant would be available to cover the demolition of condemned dwelling houses and the clearing of sites for the purpose of housing redevelopment
BEHIND a house at 28 South Crescent, Ardrossan, where a goose was sitting in nine eggs, someone broke the eggs and injured the bird.
SIX trips will arrive at Ardrossan South Beach Green, Ardrossan tomorrow (Saturday) and the total number of persons expected is 1770.
ARDROSSAN Town Council are taking part in the national anti-litter campaign this summer and have taken steps to procure a supply of posters and bills
KILBIRNIE Fire Brigade was called out on Monday night to deal with a fire in a caravan at Glengarnock.
A SUDDEN squall on Sunday evening overturned the Arran Monarch belonging to Mr John Thomson, and he and Miss Letitia McLardy were rescued by other boats that were quickly on the scene.
LAST Sunday three buses left the Milton scheme in Kilbirnie bound for Barassie.
This trip is organised annually by Mr D Sneddon, and it was a suntanned party who returned after a happy day.
ON Sunday about 5pm a Glasgow man and his wife and daughter were involved in an accident at the junction of Blair and Cemetery Roads, Kilwinning. Their car fell over on its side and the driver received slight injuries.
25 YEARS AGO on June 27, 1984
WILSON'S Dairy in Lochwinnoch is being closed, with the loss of 25 jobs. The redundancies follow a merger between J & J Wilson Dairies and the Glasgow-based Scottish Farm Dairy Foods.
A merger took place on June 17, but Wilson's dairy at Markethill, Lochwinnoch. is being run down over the coming weeks before total closure. Some equipment is being transferred and the buildings will be sold.
And the managing director of Scottish Farms Dairy Foods, Mr Gordon Shaw, blamed problems over services to Markethill for part of the reason for Wilson's closure.
In particular he cited difficulties with the electricity, water supply and sewerage.
"The Lochwinnoch operation over a period of time has expanded to such a level that it could not get efficient services to Markethill," he said.
According to Mr Shaw the biggest problem arose from handling effluent from the dairy,
"Wilson's was under continuing pressure to do something about the effluent. As a result it became a very expensive operation," added Mr Shaw.
He agreed that Wilson's may have been a victim of its own success.
Far from being a one-man business run by Mr John Wilson it became one of the bigger dairy companies in Scotland, supplying several retail multiples, including Fine Fare stores.
AN MP has slammed the Govemment's "veil of secrecy" over the possibility of nuclear weapons being stored in Beith.
David Lambie (Cunninghame South) has tried several times to discover if the RNAD store outside Beith will house nuclear weapons.
In the latest Government reply Lord Trefgarne at the Ministry of Defence has again refused to disclose the information.
"I cannot depart from the longstanding policy of neither confirming nor denying their presence at particular locations."
Mr Lamble has now passed on the reply to Cunninghame District Council, which had been concerned at the possibility of nuclear weapons being sited within its boundaries. The MP said: I condemn the fact that the Government is maintaining a veil of secrecy over its intentions about RNAD.
TWENTY-eight-year-old Highlanders Les Oliphant was a convincing winner of the first Scottish Junior Highland Games Championship. During on-off rain at Beith on Sunday he won two of the first five events to take the overall title. Oliphant, from Wick, recorded a 45ft 2in shot putt and managed to throw the 56lb weight a height of 13 feet. He was among four competitors, who made the journey from the north of Scotland. Their efforts were worthwhile though, with each taking a prize.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original
150 YEARS AGO in June 1859
MR James Strachan treasurer of the Free Church, Kilbirnie, for 12 years was presented with a silver box containing a sum of money for his valuable service to the church.
THE steamer Isle of Arran is easily caught in the morning by getting up at 5.30am. The visitors leave at six and are driven down for a trifling sum to Brodick. The steamer arrives at Ardrossan shortly after eight.
THE Earl of Eglinton, the gallant Peer of tournament fame, who has twice discharged so popularly the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has in the Honours List advanced a step in the Peerage and will henceforth sit in the House of Lords as Earl of Winton instead of Baron Ardrossan.
100 YEARS AGO in June 1909
WEST Kilbride Parish Council have appointed Mr William Gray as registrar for the principal division of the parish of West Kilbride at a salary of £12 per annum.
THE first sports organised by Ardrossan Academy (and the first under scholastic auspices in the district) were held in the Glebe Park last Saturday. There were 33 events.
AT the AGM of Ardeer Thistle FC the following office-bearers were elected: - President, Mr Fred Small; vice-president, Mr William Marshall; treasurer, Mr Alex Wilson; secretary, Mr John Bell; committee, Messrs G Hynds, F Stevenson, J Dow, H Leckie junior, J Hamilton, H Lockhart, T Patrick, J McWhinnie, J Fairbairn, P Logan and A Celso.
AT a pianoforte playing examination in Kilmarnock the following local pupils were successful: - Miss Janet Ford, Miss Jeanie Scott, Miss Martha Keddie, all pupils of Miss Stirrat, Saltcoats, and Miss Cathie Herdman, Miss Kate Andrew and Miss Agnes Campbell, pupils of Miss Mackay, Ardrossan.
50 YEARS AGO in June 1959
AFTER considering letters from four tenants of shops in Central Avenue, Ardrossan Town Council have agreed to stick to a previous decision that shop tenants desiring gates or doors to the back porches of the shops will require to provide these themselves.
MEMBERS of Ardrossan Town Council's Housing Committee are to inspect housing scheme gardens on June 22. The council have given authority to the Burgh Factor to arrange for the cutting of grass for tenants considered to be in need of assistance.
On June 29 the Committee are carrying out another inspection-this time they are to visit houses erected by Messrs William Loudon and Son at the Community Centre site.
SALTCOATS Beach Pavilion opens for the season with a carnival dance tonight (Friday), when the first heat of A Saltcoats TV queen contest will be held. The Saltcoats Pierrots Show has its first performance tomorrow (Saturday).
AFTER consideration of circulars from the Board of Trade and the Department of Health on the subject of derelict sites under the Distribution of Industries ATC, 1945, Ardrossan Town Council are to write to the Departments and inquire whether a grant would be available to cover the demolition of condemned dwelling houses and the clearing of sites for the purpose of housing redevelopment
BEHIND a house at 28 South Crescent, Ardrossan, where a goose was sitting in nine eggs, someone broke the eggs and injured the bird.
SIX trips will arrive at Ardrossan South Beach Green, Ardrossan tomorrow (Saturday) and the total number of persons expected is 1770.
ARDROSSAN Town Council are taking part in the national anti-litter campaign this summer and have taken steps to procure a supply of posters and bills
KILBIRNIE Fire Brigade was called out on Monday night to deal with a fire in a caravan at Glengarnock.
A SUDDEN squall on Sunday evening overturned the Arran Monarch belonging to Mr John Thomson, and he and Miss Letitia McLardy were rescued by other boats that were quickly on the scene.
LAST Sunday three buses left the Milton scheme in Kilbirnie bound for Barassie.
This trip is organised annually by Mr D Sneddon, and it was a suntanned party who returned after a happy day.
ON Sunday about 5pm a Glasgow man and his wife and daughter were involved in an accident at the junction of Blair and Cemetery Roads, Kilwinning. Their car fell over on its side and the driver received slight injuries.
25 YEARS AGO on June 27, 1984
WILSON'S Dairy in Lochwinnoch is being closed, with the loss of 25 jobs. The redundancies follow a merger between J & J Wilson Dairies and the Glasgow-based Scottish Farm Dairy Foods.
A merger took place on June 17, but Wilson's dairy at Markethill, Lochwinnoch. is being run down over the coming weeks before total closure. Some equipment is being transferred and the buildings will be sold.
And the managing director of Scottish Farms Dairy Foods, Mr Gordon Shaw, blamed problems over services to Markethill for part of the reason for Wilson's closure.
In particular he cited difficulties with the electricity, water supply and sewerage.
"The Lochwinnoch operation over a period of time has expanded to such a level that it could not get efficient services to Markethill," he said.
According to Mr Shaw the biggest problem arose from handling effluent from the dairy,
"Wilson's was under continuing pressure to do something about the effluent. As a result it became a very expensive operation," added Mr Shaw.
He agreed that Wilson's may have been a victim of its own success.
Far from being a one-man business run by Mr John Wilson it became one of the bigger dairy companies in Scotland, supplying several retail multiples, including Fine Fare stores.
AN MP has slammed the Govemment's "veil of secrecy" over the possibility of nuclear weapons being stored in Beith.
David Lambie (Cunninghame South) has tried several times to discover if the RNAD store outside Beith will house nuclear weapons.
In the latest Government reply Lord Trefgarne at the Ministry of Defence has again refused to disclose the information.
"I cannot depart from the longstanding policy of neither confirming nor denying their presence at particular locations."
Mr Lamble has now passed on the reply to Cunninghame District Council, which had been concerned at the possibility of nuclear weapons being sited within its boundaries. The MP said: I condemn the fact that the Government is maintaining a veil of secrecy over its intentions about RNAD.
TWENTY-eight-year-old Highlanders Les Oliphant was a convincing winner of the first Scottish Junior Highland Games Championship. During on-off rain at Beith on Sunday he won two of the first five events to take the overall title. Oliphant, from Wick, recorded a 45ft 2in shot putt and managed to throw the 56lb weight a height of 13 feet. He was among four competitors, who made the journey from the north of Scotland. Their efforts were worthwhile though, with each taking a prize.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original