Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 APRIL 1900

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

Yesterday afternoon the Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company Limited launched from their yard at Ardrossan a steel screw quarterdeck cargo steamer, classed 100 A1 at Lloyds.

She was built to the order of Messrs Mann, Macneil & Company, Hope Street, Glasgow, and is intended for the general coasting trade.

Dimensions – Length between perpendiculars, 135 feet; breadth moulded, 23 feet; depth moulded, 10 feet 9 inches. She has a carrying capacity of 375 tons.

As the vessel left the ways she was named the “GLASSFORD” by Miss McQuat, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 APRIL 1923

ARDROSSAN TOWN COUNCIL WRANGLE

The question of the admission of the public to the meetings of Ardrossan Town Council was the cause of the monthly meeting of the Council yesterday being adjourned till Monday without any business being overtaken.

At two previous meetings the public, but not the press, were excluded, some members holding that the accommodation was not adequate, but when the latest meeting opened three members of the public were present in the Council-room.

Before the minutes were read it was moved and seconded that the meeting be held in private, and after much lively discussion carried by a large majority.

The Provost, declaring that he did not desire to ask the ratepayers to retire, suggested that the motion not be carried into effect. This was opposed by the mover of the motion, and lively scenes ensued, a Councillor defying the Council to have the members of the public present, who made no move to leave the chamber, ejected, and the wrangling was brought to an end by the decision, on a vote, to adjourn the meeting.

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VESSEL STRANDED
20 APRIL 1920

THE LOCH IORSA

The wooden sailing smack LOCH IORSA, built by Barclay, Robertson & Company, Ardrossan, for John Kerr and two others, and launched on the 25th of July 1876, while inward with a cargo of coal, stranded on rocks in Arinagour Harbour, Isle of Coll.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 APRIL 1881

LICENSING COURT – SALTCOATS

All the old licenses were granted with one exception, where the applicant had been convicted of breach of certificate. The case was continued for a month owing to the absence of the party.

Mr A. Allan, Stevenston, applied for a grocer’s license, but the application was unanimously refused.

Two applications for renewal of transferred certificates for public-houses and one for a grocer’s were granted.

The following are the old licenses granted in the district:-

Ardrossan – Hotels, 2; public-houses, 13; grocers, 7.
Saltcoats (Ardrossan parish) – Hotels, 1; public-houses, 5; grocers, 8.
Saltcoats (Stevenston parish) – Hotels, 1; public-houses, 8; grocers, 3.
Stevenston – Hotels, 2; public-houses, 11; grocers, 2.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 APRIL 1950

FACTORY WORK AT ARDROSSAN

A large part of the premises at Ardrossan which were used by the Air Ministry during the war will soon, it is understood, be taken over by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, for production purposes.

This information has been received by Ardrossan Town Council from the Scottish Council (Development and Industry).

It is also understood that a fish processing firm are applying for part of the premises.

[Hughie]

Could this have been the Can Factory at the Inches.

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That was my first reaction Hughie, and I'm still thinking along these lines. However, I don't remember any Co-op activity down The Inches in the 50s.

Away from all their interests in Glasgow Street, the only other major premises I remember the Co-op occupying was the "despatch" in Barr Street?

[Hughie]

Yes, that could be it, the Co-op bakery known locally as "The Dispatch". But the mention of the air ministry made me think of the can factory where I believe aviation fuel was canned during the WW2.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1880

LICENSING COURT – SALTCOATS

All the old licenses in the district were granted.

An applicant who was reported for a breach of his certificate and another who was strongly suspected of selling drink on Sunday received a caution from the bench.

The following applications by new tenants or occupants were granted:-

James Frazer, inn and hotel, Princes Street, Ardrossan; James Russell, public-house, Canal Street, Saltcoats; William Bryce, public-house, Main Street, Stevenston; Peter Kilpatrick, inn and hotel, New Street, Stevenston.

Applications for renewal or transferred certificates were then taken up, and granted as follows:-

Euphemia Johnstone or Dick, public-house, Main Street, Stevenston; James Clark, inn and hotel, Princes Street, Ardrossan; Patrick McAvoy, public-house, Countess Street, Saltcoats; Joseph Staub, public-house, Bradshaw Street, Saltcoats.

This concluded the business.

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VESSEL WRECKED
21 APRIL 1924

THE TINTENBAR

The steel screw steamer TINTENBAR, built by Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company Limited for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company Limited and launched on the 21st of March 1903, while on an inter-island voyage, was wrecked on Simberi Island, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 APRIL 1885

ARDROSSAN - FATAL ACCIDENT

On Saturday night the horse yoked to a dogcart belong to Mr Wm. Caldwell, Boydstone, was, it is stated, bitten by a dog at South Crescent, and bolted. The reins broke while Mr Caldwell, Junior, who was driving, was trying to hold the animal in, and he lost all control. Two gentlemen and Miss Annie Caldwell, who were in the cart, were thrown out, and the latter seriously injured about the head. Mr Caldwell afterwards leaped off, and escaped with but slight injuries.

Miss Caldwell was removed to the residence of Dr. Robertson, where every effort was made to restore consciousness, but without effect. She was subsequently taken to the residence of her brother-in-law, Mr A D Bryce Douglas, Seafield Tower, where she died yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, never having regained consciousness.

The horse ran as far as Burnfoot - a mile and a half - before it came to a stand.

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1885

DEATH

CALDWELL: At Seafield, Ardrossan, on the 19th instant, ANNIE, youngest daughter of William Caldwell, Boydstone. The result of a carriage accident.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1884

BIRTH

HOGARTH: At Lorne Place, Ardrossan, on the 19th instant, Mrs John Hogarth, a daughter.