Re: Looking Back - Herald files
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 12:55 am
From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 2, 2010
150 YEARS AGO on June 1860
The Earl of Eglinton and Winton presented to Kilwinning Bowling Club a gold medal for annual competition.
Saltcoats Fair is as popular as ever. A novel feature of the Fair was the services conducted by the Free Church ministers of the district at intervals from 2pm to 8pm.
The weather during the past week has been very cold along the Ayrshire coast. In Arran there were several showers of hail.
The UP Church, Thornhill has presented a call to Mr Wishart, a native of Millport, who lately preached at Ardrossan.
100 YEARS AGO on June 4, 1910
A meeting of Masonic Lodge Royal Arch West Kilbride No. 314 was held on Tuesday evening. After hearing a leet of six, which was later reduced to three, the congregation of Erskine UF Church, at a meeting on Monday night, decided to give a unanimous call to the Rev J M Dawson MA, assistant, Kirkcaldy. The meeting was presided over by the Rev Morris Moodie, Stevenston and was most harmonious.
The result of the golfing final at Beith was a tie of 79 between the two scratch men, James M Foster and Robert Ritchie
50 YEARS AGO on June 4, 1960
Last Sunday a party of bird-watchers from Kilmarnock were on Horse Island, a mile off Ardrossan Harbour. This Sunday another party who are interested in bird life will visit the island. All who visit Horse Island must have permission.
Found and handed in at Saltcoats police station a sum of money and a 14lb hammer. It is suspected the hammer may have fallen off a lorry.
Norman Wisdom's seventh film, Follow A Star, is showing all week at the Countess Cinema, Saltcoats. Devil's Bait, in support, stars Gordon Jackson and concerns the dramatic search for a loaf which had inadvertently been baked in a tin which formerly contained cyanide.
Jazzboat, which begins a week's run at La Scala, combines popular music, played by Ted Heath, and gangsterism.
The Lady And The Tramp at the Regal is a full- length cartoon from Walt Disney which tells of the friendship between a pedigree spaniel and a mongrel dog.
Nine trips are due at South Beach Green, Ardrossan tomorrow. The number of visitors will be approximately 1800.
Bill Lee, a native of Ardrossan who has been abroad for more than 30 years, is coming home for a holiday at the end of July.
Will the summer pass without there being any sanitary arrangements at the North Shore, Ardrossan, or a supply of fresh water? Both have been a big want for many years.
In Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston the burgh gardeners have been putting out bedding plants. They hope the public will assist in protecting them.
On Tuesday of this week and on Thursday of last week a special train arrived at Ardrossan from Newcastle and the passengers crossed over to Arran by steamer. The party was made up of women.
The Ardrossan Old People's Welfare trip this summer will be to Portobello.
A decrease of 1009 to 4637 is reported in the number of unemployed persons in Ayrshire and Bute compared to May 16.
Twenty-three Ayrshire schoolchildren were involved in road accidents during the months of April twelve pedestrians, three pedal cyclists, seven passengers and one horse-rider.
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25 YEARS AGO on June 7, 1985
Stevenston's brand-new electronic barrier level crossing is a danger, a Stevenston councillor said this week. District councillor Sam Gooding insisted that children were getting through the crossing barriers and on to the line when they were closed to pedestrians and traffic.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original
150 YEARS AGO on June 1860
The Earl of Eglinton and Winton presented to Kilwinning Bowling Club a gold medal for annual competition.
Saltcoats Fair is as popular as ever. A novel feature of the Fair was the services conducted by the Free Church ministers of the district at intervals from 2pm to 8pm.
The weather during the past week has been very cold along the Ayrshire coast. In Arran there were several showers of hail.
The UP Church, Thornhill has presented a call to Mr Wishart, a native of Millport, who lately preached at Ardrossan.
100 YEARS AGO on June 4, 1910
A meeting of Masonic Lodge Royal Arch West Kilbride No. 314 was held on Tuesday evening. After hearing a leet of six, which was later reduced to three, the congregation of Erskine UF Church, at a meeting on Monday night, decided to give a unanimous call to the Rev J M Dawson MA, assistant, Kirkcaldy. The meeting was presided over by the Rev Morris Moodie, Stevenston and was most harmonious.
The result of the golfing final at Beith was a tie of 79 between the two scratch men, James M Foster and Robert Ritchie
50 YEARS AGO on June 4, 1960
Last Sunday a party of bird-watchers from Kilmarnock were on Horse Island, a mile off Ardrossan Harbour. This Sunday another party who are interested in bird life will visit the island. All who visit Horse Island must have permission.
Found and handed in at Saltcoats police station a sum of money and a 14lb hammer. It is suspected the hammer may have fallen off a lorry.
Norman Wisdom's seventh film, Follow A Star, is showing all week at the Countess Cinema, Saltcoats. Devil's Bait, in support, stars Gordon Jackson and concerns the dramatic search for a loaf which had inadvertently been baked in a tin which formerly contained cyanide.
Jazzboat, which begins a week's run at La Scala, combines popular music, played by Ted Heath, and gangsterism.
The Lady And The Tramp at the Regal is a full- length cartoon from Walt Disney which tells of the friendship between a pedigree spaniel and a mongrel dog.
Nine trips are due at South Beach Green, Ardrossan tomorrow. The number of visitors will be approximately 1800.
Bill Lee, a native of Ardrossan who has been abroad for more than 30 years, is coming home for a holiday at the end of July.
Will the summer pass without there being any sanitary arrangements at the North Shore, Ardrossan, or a supply of fresh water? Both have been a big want for many years.
In Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston the burgh gardeners have been putting out bedding plants. They hope the public will assist in protecting them.
On Tuesday of this week and on Thursday of last week a special train arrived at Ardrossan from Newcastle and the passengers crossed over to Arran by steamer. The party was made up of women.
The Ardrossan Old People's Welfare trip this summer will be to Portobello.
A decrease of 1009 to 4637 is reported in the number of unemployed persons in Ayrshire and Bute compared to May 16.
Twenty-three Ayrshire schoolchildren were involved in road accidents during the months of April twelve pedestrians, three pedal cyclists, seven passengers and one horse-rider.
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25 YEARS AGO on June 7, 1985
Stevenston's brand-new electronic barrier level crossing is a danger, a Stevenston councillor said this week. District councillor Sam Gooding insisted that children were getting through the crossing barriers and on to the line when they were closed to pedestrians and traffic.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original