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by Archivist
Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:41 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: Saltcoats Pavilion (Dec 1999)
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Saltcoats Pavilion (Dec 1999)

From: "Bob Galloway" <mail@xxxxuk> To: <threetowners@iList.net> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 I read somewhere recently that the Pavilion in Saltcoats was once used to draw up in invasion plans in the 1939-45 war. As a Saltcoats laddie this was news to me. Does anybody know any details...
by Archivist
Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:40 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: Wartime in the three towns (Nov 1999)
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Wartime in the three towns (Nov 1999)

From: "hewmac" <hewmac@xxxx.com.au> To: <threetowners@iList.net> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 Can anyone answer these questions. Were there any air raid shelters in the three towns? Where any bombs dropped in the locality and where were the defence gunners for the ICI Explosives factory...
by Archivist
Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:48 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: Wandhouse Stevenston (Nov 1999)
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Views: 2631

Wandhouse Stevenston (Nov 1999)

From: <MLove34513@xxxxl.com> To: <threetowners@list.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 Dear list: Doe's anyone know if the "Wandhouse" in Stevenston still stands? It was sited betwixt the Stevenston quarry and the Glasgow and South Western Railway. My GGG-grandfather lived there. It w...
by Archivist
Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:47 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: Stevenston Shop (Sept 1999)
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Views: 2905

Stevenston Shop (Sept 1999)

From: "Pat Ryan" <soxys@xxx.ca> To: <threetowners@iList.net> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 Does anyone happen to remember Gilmour's Grocery on Shore Road in Stevenston? It used to be Crawford's. I believe there may have been at least one more Gilmour Grocery, perhaps Kilwinning and/or...
by Archivist
Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:46 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: Ardrossan Monument (Sept 1999)
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Views: 3667

Ardrossan Monument (Sept 1999)

From: "hewmac" <hewmac@xxx.au> To: <threetowners@iList.net> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 Jean, or perhaps someone else might be able to answer this one. There was/is a monument at the Saltcoats end of Stanley road in Ardrossan. From memory it had a fence around it - this was in the e...
by Archivist
Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:35 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: Winton Rovers (Aug 1999)
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Views: 2697

Winton Rovers (Aug 1999)

From: "hewmac" <hewmac@xxx.com.au> To: <threetowners@iList.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 Mary Pllu wrote in part: >my dad played for the Winton Rovers I think about the late 1940's. Mary, When we were last in Ardrossan in 1992 we had a night out at the Winton Rover's clubrooms in hon...
by Archivist
Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:33 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: Nissen Huts - Saltcoats (Aug 1999)
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Views: 3167

Nissen Huts - Saltcoats (Aug 1999)

From: "hewmac" <hewmac@....au> To: <threetowners@iList.net> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 Subject: Nissan Huts Anyone recall anything about Nissan Huts on the corner of the High Road and Sharphill Rd in Saltcoats. Just about where the church is now. I was very young and it was in the early...
by Archivist
Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:31 am
Forum: Archived topics
Topic: A very small world (Aug 1999)
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Views: 2747

A very small world (Aug 1999)

From: "mary groffen" <mgroffen@.. To: <threetowners@iList.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 Hi to everyone I wanted to write and share with everyone an amazing event that has happened because of this site. I have tried for a lengthy period of time to get the books on Saltcoats, Ardrossan...