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GLASGOW HERALD
13 FEBRUARY 1882

WEST KILBRIDE – ROYAL ARCH LODGE, No. 314

The anniversary meeting of this lodge was held in the King’s Arms Hotel Hall, West Kilbride, on Friday evening – Bro. John McFarlane, R.W.M. presiding.

Prior to opening the proceedings the brethren marched through the village, headed by the Beith brass band, their way being lighted by an army of juvenile torch-bearers, and the unusual spectacle seemed to have attracted the entire population.

In the course of the evening the following deputations were received:-

Stevenston Thistle and Rose, No. 169, headed by Bro, Lambie;
Largs St. John’s, No. 173, headed by Bro. Watson;
Dalry Blair, No. 290, headed by Bro. William Hunter; and
Saltcoats and Ardrossan St. John’s, R.A., No.320 headed by Bro. J. H. Mearns.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 FEBRUARY 1901

GENERAL HUNTER AT IRVINE

Yesterday Irvine was honoured by a visit from its youngest burgess, General Sir Archibald Hunter.

He arrived from Ardrossan by train and walked up from the station about 10 o’clock.

The visit was a private one, but the news that the General was in town spread abroad and at parts along the principal streets little groups gathered at the dinner-hour in the hope of getting a glimpse of him. Nothing in the way of a public demonstration was entered into, and the General dined quietly with a few private friends in the Eglinton Arms Hotel, after which he left in a cab for Kilwinning to catch a train home.

[Details of General Sir Archibald Hunter are contained in the following link:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Hunter
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 MARCH 1952

YACHTING LIVING OFF CAPITAL
CLYDE ACTIVITIES REVIEW

When he gave a historical review of Clyde yachting last night to the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Mr W. M. Mackinlay, president of the Clyde Yacht Club’s Conference, said that as in many spheres today Clyde yachting was still living off the capital accumulated in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Mr Mackinlay also stated that the blue ensign warrant of the Royal Northern Yacht Club, dated May 10, 1830, was the oldest in the country. The Royal Northern had laid the foundation of the great future Clyde yachting was to have, because as far back as 1833 they were giving races at Greenock, Helensburgh, Dunoon, Largs, Ardrossan, Oban, and Inveraray.
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GLASGOW HERALD
13 MARCH 1875

KILMARNOCK - LUDICROUS BLUNDER OF A BELLMAN

A rather amusing blunder has just been perpetrated by one of our church beadles whose duty it is to ring his bell every morning for the convenience of workpeople shortly before six o’clock.

Awakening out of a deep sleep, yesterday morning about one o’clock, he, through some hallucination imagined that hour had come for his customary bell-rope exercise, and accordingly he got up in all haste and commenced lustily to ring the church bell. This he continued to do for several minutes till a crowd collected, and a stop was put to his “tintinnabulations” by the intervention of a friendly policeman.
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Found this:
Tintinnabulation is the lingering sound of a ringing bell that occurs after the bell has been struck. This word was invented by Edgar Allan Poe as used in the first stanza of his poem The Bells.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 MARCH 1892

LAUNCH AT PAISLEY

Yesterday afternoon Messrs J. McArthur & Company, launched from their shipyard at Paisley, a finely modelled steel-screw steamer named the “TAW,” being the first of three steamers now in the course of construction by that firm for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.

As the steamer left the ways she was named in a graceful manner by Miss JENNY ROBERTSON, of Braehead House, Saltcoats.
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Hughie wrote: Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:24 am Found this:
Tintinnabulation is the lingering sound of a ringing bell that occurs after the bell has been struck. This word was invented by Edgar Allan Poe as used in the first stanza of his poem The Bells.

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This is one of the poems we learned off by heart Hughie - it has a million verses (or so it seemed at the time) so I won’t copy all of them here, but this is the first verse...


Silver bells !
What a world of merriment their melody foretells !
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night !
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight ;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells --
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Takes me back....
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GLASGOW HERALD
31 MARCH 1883

BALL AT EGLINTON CASTLE

As a fitting close to the Eglinton Hunt meeting, Lord and Lady Eglinton have a ball on Wednesday night at Eglinton Castle.

The guests numbered over 350.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1870

THE STRANDED BARQUE TONYGO

This vessel which went ashore at Benhead, near Balbriggan, on the IRISH COAST, about the beginning of March last, while on a voyage from Liverpool to Valparaiso, was successfully floated off the rocks on Friday, and towed to Ardrossan by the Clyde Shipping Company’s steamer FLYING METEOR, and arrived at her destination early yesterday morning.

The TONYGO after going ashore was discharged of her cargo and the hull sold.

Messrs Barr & Shearer, Ardrossan, were employed to float the ship off the rocks, which they successfully did.

A gang of men were engaged pumping the ship from the time she floated until Ardrossan was reached.

The TONYGO will now be docked for repairs.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 APRIL 1936

THE QUEEN MARY’S SPEED TEST
ESTIMATED TO HAVE REACHED 33 KNOTS

The Cunard White Star liner QUEEN MARY left her anchorage off Gourock at 9.40 on Saturday night for Southampton, after spending the day in the lower reaches of the Firth of Clyde undergoing extended trials and carrying through her official speed tests on the Admiralty’s measured course off the Arran coast………For almost two yours an L.M.S. steamer laden with passengers cruised about off the north of Arran, providing the passengers with an excellent grandstand for watching the liner, while people on board the GLEN SANNOX on the passage from Ardrossan to Brodick had a magnificent view of the QUEEN MARY as she passed half a mile away.
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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1853

SHIPPING NEWS

Troon, April 24 – The TAY, of Glasgow, Meikle, master, with 208 passengers from Belfast to New York, having sprung a leak in 11. W., run for this port, which she reached today.

Some of the passengers have been making application to leave the vessel. They all seem to be in good health, and have a very clean appearance.
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GLASGOW HERALD
11 MAY 1893

SEIZURE OF IRISH STONE BOAT

The smack ATLANTIC, owned by Mr McCracken, Belfast, which had been loading stones off Holy Isle, was arrested by warrant of the Court of Session when sailing out of Lamlash Bay, and was brought to Brodick, where she is being dismantled.

The taking of stones from the shores of any part of his Arran estate is prohibited by the Duke of Hamilton, and it is understood this action is at his instance.
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