100 YEARS AGO on January 2, 1903
SaltcoatsROB ROY was produced on two evenings last week by the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Musical and Dramatic Society. Mr Jacobs was Rob Roy and the cast included Messrs John Anderson, Thomas Buchanan, Henry Magee, Sam Noble, Charles Magee, Carruthers, John Bain, WG Smith, John Deacon, Thomas G Anderson, William McMurtrie, John H Kerr. Masters Fred Morrison, Archibald McPherson and Alf McPherson, Misses Kate Brady, Jessie Becket. Peggy Ramage, S Dunkeld and S Quinn.
Baile an t-Salainn
Oh Saltcoats, little grey town, sweet jewel of the Clyde,
How oft my yearning gaze I throw across the heaving tide.
To where, encircled by the hills, and veiled in misty foam,
There lies, that sweetest thing on earth, the spot my heart calls home.
Alas! That not in present joys we satisfaction find.
But, when we leave the scenes we love and cast a look behind.
Old haunts, old forms, old faces clear in memory's glass we see ~
Old Saltcoats, little grey town, my heart is locked in thee.
Sam Noble