Re: Looking Back - Herald files
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:53 am
From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on April 7, 2010
150 YEARS AGO on April 1860
The report of the General Prison Board shows that the cost of the maintenance of convicts in the prison of Ayr for the year ended March 1860 was £3264 8s.
Saltcoats and Stevenston Rifle Corps, escorted by Saltcoats Instrumental Band, made their first public appearance.
Ardrossan Farmers' Society held their annual exhibition of stock in a field adjoining Parkhouse farm. At 3 o'clock 42 gentlemen sat down to dinner in the Eglinton Arms Hotel. Gavin Fullarton Esq, Kerelaw, was in the chair.
Six hundred and twenty-one tons of pig iron were shipped at Ardrossan in one week. Also shipped were clay pipes and 200 casks of beer for New York.
100 YEARS AGO on April 8, 1910
Mr James Edgar was last week elected to Kilwinning Parish Council in place of the late Councillor Adamson.
The breaking in of subscriptions for the advertising of Saltcoats is proceeding slowly. It is not yet know whether the amount required will be secured.
An increase in trade of over £263 over the corresponding quarter of last year was reported by Mr Wm McGhie, president, and the 149th quarterly.
Mr Robert Shanks, a 29-year-old Saltcoats labourer, set out on Tuesday morning from Kilwinning in tending to break the record of 37 days to wheel a barrow to London and back.
A marble clock and bronze side ornaments were presented, last Friday, to Mr John Barclay, retiring secretary of Ardrossan Branch of the Foresters' Society.
For so long at least as the present Parliament lasts, North Ayrshire is not to be represented in the House of Commons by a silent member. Mr A M Anderson KC delivered his maiden speech on Monday night.
Mr G G Turnbull, retiring head-teacher of the Evening Continuation Classes held under Ardrossan School Board, was presented with an ink-stand by Mr J B Cowan on Friday night.
50 YEARS AGO on April 8, 1960
The Presbytery of Ardrossan decided at their meeting on Tuesday to write to the Prime Minister, the Dominion Secretary and the High Commissioner for South Africa in the United Kingdom expressing their continuing situation in South Africa in terms of the Church of Scotland's traditional policy - namely, that the system of apartheid, as practised by the Government of South Africa, "offers no permanent solution to the problems of that Nation and is against all Christian teaching."
During a debate on the issue the Rev JA Miller Scott, Stevenston, declared that the "morality" being applied in South Africa was "a thug morality - the morality of the Gestapo".
A 13-year-old Ardrossan boy, Jack Francis of Harvey Street, has gained an award at the Scottish Schoolboys and Girls' exhibition at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. He is a pupil of Eglinton School. Jack's entry was a model tray in wood, for which he received third place in the handiwork section. This week he received his prize - a cheque for £2.
25 YEARS AGO on April 12, 1985
One thousand part-time jobs at Cunninghame's Special Employment Unit are under threat because of arguments with the Transport Union. The local branch of the T&G have refused to approve new community programme schemes in the district. They argue that full-time and not part-time jobs should be created. Unless agreement is reached within weeks the Special Employment Unit will grind to a halt.
Tenants in Ardrossan are in a blind rage - a colour- blind rage! For they are up in arms over a new colour scheme adopted by the district council for some flats in the town. Montgomerie Street residents say everything was perfectly fine until the council painted their flats bright green and yellow.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original
150 YEARS AGO on April 1860
The report of the General Prison Board shows that the cost of the maintenance of convicts in the prison of Ayr for the year ended March 1860 was £3264 8s.
Saltcoats and Stevenston Rifle Corps, escorted by Saltcoats Instrumental Band, made their first public appearance.
Ardrossan Farmers' Society held their annual exhibition of stock in a field adjoining Parkhouse farm. At 3 o'clock 42 gentlemen sat down to dinner in the Eglinton Arms Hotel. Gavin Fullarton Esq, Kerelaw, was in the chair.
Six hundred and twenty-one tons of pig iron were shipped at Ardrossan in one week. Also shipped were clay pipes and 200 casks of beer for New York.
100 YEARS AGO on April 8, 1910
Mr James Edgar was last week elected to Kilwinning Parish Council in place of the late Councillor Adamson.
The breaking in of subscriptions for the advertising of Saltcoats is proceeding slowly. It is not yet know whether the amount required will be secured.
An increase in trade of over £263 over the corresponding quarter of last year was reported by Mr Wm McGhie, president, and the 149th quarterly.
Mr Robert Shanks, a 29-year-old Saltcoats labourer, set out on Tuesday morning from Kilwinning in tending to break the record of 37 days to wheel a barrow to London and back.
A marble clock and bronze side ornaments were presented, last Friday, to Mr John Barclay, retiring secretary of Ardrossan Branch of the Foresters' Society.
For so long at least as the present Parliament lasts, North Ayrshire is not to be represented in the House of Commons by a silent member. Mr A M Anderson KC delivered his maiden speech on Monday night.
Mr G G Turnbull, retiring head-teacher of the Evening Continuation Classes held under Ardrossan School Board, was presented with an ink-stand by Mr J B Cowan on Friday night.
50 YEARS AGO on April 8, 1960
The Presbytery of Ardrossan decided at their meeting on Tuesday to write to the Prime Minister, the Dominion Secretary and the High Commissioner for South Africa in the United Kingdom expressing their continuing situation in South Africa in terms of the Church of Scotland's traditional policy - namely, that the system of apartheid, as practised by the Government of South Africa, "offers no permanent solution to the problems of that Nation and is against all Christian teaching."
During a debate on the issue the Rev JA Miller Scott, Stevenston, declared that the "morality" being applied in South Africa was "a thug morality - the morality of the Gestapo".
A 13-year-old Ardrossan boy, Jack Francis of Harvey Street, has gained an award at the Scottish Schoolboys and Girls' exhibition at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. He is a pupil of Eglinton School. Jack's entry was a model tray in wood, for which he received third place in the handiwork section. This week he received his prize - a cheque for £2.
25 YEARS AGO on April 12, 1985
One thousand part-time jobs at Cunninghame's Special Employment Unit are under threat because of arguments with the Transport Union. The local branch of the T&G have refused to approve new community programme schemes in the district. They argue that full-time and not part-time jobs should be created. Unless agreement is reached within weeks the Special Employment Unit will grind to a halt.
Tenants in Ardrossan are in a blind rage - a colour- blind rage! For they are up in arms over a new colour scheme adopted by the district council for some flats in the town. Montgomerie Street residents say everything was perfectly fine until the council painted their flats bright green and yellow.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original