Re: Looking Back - Herald files
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:11 am
From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on May 4, 2011
150 YEARS AGO on May, 1861
AT A general meeting for granting publicans' certificates held in Beith Town Hall, the following applications for the district were disposed of - Dalry, 49, all granted. Kilbirnie, 19 applications, all granted. Beith, 38 applications, all granted.
A hen belonging to Mr John Garven, Townhead, Dalgarven, dropped an egg which measured eight and a half inches by seven and a half and weighed four and a half ounces.
The Licensing Court, held in Saltcoats Town Hall, granted the following applications - Stevenston: Inns 4, public houses 10, licensed grocers 8. Saltcoats: Inns 4, public houses 10, licensed grocers 11. Ardrossan: Inns 1, public houses 15, licensed grocers 8.
On Wednesday, May 15 the City of Glasgow Bank at Ardrossan was closed. The business of the district is now concentrated at one office in Saltcoats, under the legacy of Mr James Campbell.
100 YEARS AGO on May 19, 1911
The opening of the new lawn tennis courts in Stevenston took place on Saturday afternoon. Mr Wm. Kerr presided, and introduced Mrs Wyllie of Ardeer House who declared the course open for play.
The annual general meeting of the Ayrshire Bowling Association was held at Kilwinning last Thursday night and the office-bearers were elected for the coming year.
50 YEARS AGO on May 19, 1961
The old YMCA Hall at Ardrossan Harbour, which was purchased by the Harbour Company some years ago, has been altered, redecorated and made into new offices. The building has a new entrance door and all the old stonework has been
rough-cast. The workmen have done a really good job.
With Kenya very much in the news these days, it is good to know that Mr Hugh Stevenson, son of Mr and Mrs H Stevenson, 92 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, has a thousand acre farm in Kenya and that he and his wife are enjoying life there. His farm is three hundred miles up-country and we learn that he gets on very well with the natives.
A young man from Fife, at present employed in a Civil Service Job in Ardrossan, bought a shilling ticket for the Edinburgh Students' Draw. His ticket won first prize - a new motor car.
25 YEARS AGO on May 16, 1986
A Government guillotine hangs over hundreds of Ayrshire shipyard jobs - as an Ardrossan ship- builder announces a £1M triple order.
McCrindle Shipbuilding won the orders but up to 375 jobs could be axed at the Ferguson Ailsa yard down the coast in Troon. The Ardrossan company's news will come as a lifeline for 20 workers, how- ever boss Bill McCrindle says that if the firm had not secured a major order for a fishing vessel, lay-offs would have resulted. Twenty men were axed by the firm at the completion of a contract to build a giant shiploader in March.
Purcell Meats have slashed their workforce by two-thirds the second time workers at the Saltcoats-based meat factory have been paid off. Speculation is now growing among members of Cunninghame District Council that the Irish-based firm has just months left before it closes down all together claims which are being denied strongly by the company itself.
A jubilant Labour Party is celebrating landslide victories after last Thursday's Regional Council elections. But while Tory morale took a dunt locally, the Party has stressed that it may be down - but not out. Richard Wilkinson, who has retained the Arran, Largs and West Kilbride seat on Strathclyde for the Conservatives, commented: "We have taken a light punch, but we will come out of it smiling."
Bridget McGeechan kept Saltcoats and Ardrossan in Labour hands, replacing Dan McMillan as councillor, while James Jennings and Archie Lambie continue to serve the Garnock Valley and Kilwinning & Stevenston for Labour respectively.
As in Mr Wilkinson's case, all three Labour candidates had substantial majorities over their closest rivals, but the Neil Kinnock-led Labour Party candidates all increased their majorities.
The BBC has been slammed for 'distorting the truth' about Cunninghame North's political climate. Conservatives who took part in the This Week, Next Week programme screened on Sunday accused the Corporation of ignoring evidence and misrepresenting facts.
A Naval bomb disposal squad was called in after a fishing boat trawling two miles off Ardrossan picked a torpedo up in her nets.
The device had to be cut loose at great expense to the boat's owner, and is believed to date from the Second World War.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original
150 YEARS AGO on May, 1861
AT A general meeting for granting publicans' certificates held in Beith Town Hall, the following applications for the district were disposed of - Dalry, 49, all granted. Kilbirnie, 19 applications, all granted. Beith, 38 applications, all granted.
A hen belonging to Mr John Garven, Townhead, Dalgarven, dropped an egg which measured eight and a half inches by seven and a half and weighed four and a half ounces.
The Licensing Court, held in Saltcoats Town Hall, granted the following applications - Stevenston: Inns 4, public houses 10, licensed grocers 8. Saltcoats: Inns 4, public houses 10, licensed grocers 11. Ardrossan: Inns 1, public houses 15, licensed grocers 8.
On Wednesday, May 15 the City of Glasgow Bank at Ardrossan was closed. The business of the district is now concentrated at one office in Saltcoats, under the legacy of Mr James Campbell.
100 YEARS AGO on May 19, 1911
The opening of the new lawn tennis courts in Stevenston took place on Saturday afternoon. Mr Wm. Kerr presided, and introduced Mrs Wyllie of Ardeer House who declared the course open for play.
The annual general meeting of the Ayrshire Bowling Association was held at Kilwinning last Thursday night and the office-bearers were elected for the coming year.
50 YEARS AGO on May 19, 1961
The old YMCA Hall at Ardrossan Harbour, which was purchased by the Harbour Company some years ago, has been altered, redecorated and made into new offices. The building has a new entrance door and all the old stonework has been
rough-cast. The workmen have done a really good job.
With Kenya very much in the news these days, it is good to know that Mr Hugh Stevenson, son of Mr and Mrs H Stevenson, 92 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, has a thousand acre farm in Kenya and that he and his wife are enjoying life there. His farm is three hundred miles up-country and we learn that he gets on very well with the natives.
A young man from Fife, at present employed in a Civil Service Job in Ardrossan, bought a shilling ticket for the Edinburgh Students' Draw. His ticket won first prize - a new motor car.
25 YEARS AGO on May 16, 1986
A Government guillotine hangs over hundreds of Ayrshire shipyard jobs - as an Ardrossan ship- builder announces a £1M triple order.
McCrindle Shipbuilding won the orders but up to 375 jobs could be axed at the Ferguson Ailsa yard down the coast in Troon. The Ardrossan company's news will come as a lifeline for 20 workers, how- ever boss Bill McCrindle says that if the firm had not secured a major order for a fishing vessel, lay-offs would have resulted. Twenty men were axed by the firm at the completion of a contract to build a giant shiploader in March.
Purcell Meats have slashed their workforce by two-thirds the second time workers at the Saltcoats-based meat factory have been paid off. Speculation is now growing among members of Cunninghame District Council that the Irish-based firm has just months left before it closes down all together claims which are being denied strongly by the company itself.
A jubilant Labour Party is celebrating landslide victories after last Thursday's Regional Council elections. But while Tory morale took a dunt locally, the Party has stressed that it may be down - but not out. Richard Wilkinson, who has retained the Arran, Largs and West Kilbride seat on Strathclyde for the Conservatives, commented: "We have taken a light punch, but we will come out of it smiling."
Bridget McGeechan kept Saltcoats and Ardrossan in Labour hands, replacing Dan McMillan as councillor, while James Jennings and Archie Lambie continue to serve the Garnock Valley and Kilwinning & Stevenston for Labour respectively.
As in Mr Wilkinson's case, all three Labour candidates had substantial majorities over their closest rivals, but the Neil Kinnock-led Labour Party candidates all increased their majorities.
The BBC has been slammed for 'distorting the truth' about Cunninghame North's political climate. Conservatives who took part in the This Week, Next Week programme screened on Sunday accused the Corporation of ignoring evidence and misrepresenting facts.
A Naval bomb disposal squad was called in after a fishing boat trawling two miles off Ardrossan picked a torpedo up in her nets.
The device had to be cut loose at great expense to the boat's owner, and is believed to date from the Second World War.
Thanks to Tom McGrattan for the original