Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1889

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Yesterday morning the smack JANE AND ELLEN, Leitch master, grounded at the lighthouse on the pierhead at Ardrossan Harbour. She stuck fast for several hours, but came off with the tide undamaged.
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GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1889

ARDROSSAN – SALE OF PROPERTIES

Yesterday the properties belonging to the estate of the late Mrs. Adam were exposed in three lots, and sold in the Eglinton Arms Hotel.

The three dwelling-houses at 16 Montgomerie Street and 29 and 31 Montgomerie Lane, were exposed in one lot at £800, and sold for £820 to Mr. Robert Barbour, junior, joiner.

Lot two, comprising houses and shops at 45, 47, and 49 Glasgow Street, were sold at the upset price, £890, to Mr. Peter McCarroll, merchant.

The third lot consisted of shops, houses, and attics at 51, 53, and 55 Glasgow Street, and was started at £700. Mr. Peter McCarroll became the purchaser at £716.

Mr. James Campbell, was agent, and Mr. E. Magee, auctioneer.

The late Mrs. Adam, it will be remembered bequeathed her estate to the Free Church of Scotland.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1881

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The THOMAS arrived at Ardrossan from Aviles (Spain), reports having broken her cylinder-cover and piston of high pressure engine when 170 miles north of Aviles in the Bay of Biscay.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1883

ACCIDENT TO A TUG STEAMER

On Wednesday last the Clyde Shipping Company’s steamer FLYING HUNTSMAN left the Clyde to assist at the wreck of the steamer DUKE OF LEINSTER. She took the Salvage Association’s steamer SEAMEW in tow at Ardrossan, with pumps and other necessaries on board.

During the storm on Wednesday night a derangement occurred in the tug’s machinery. The SEAMEW tried to tow her along, but unsuccessfully. The SEAMEW then made for Ardglass and reported the circumstances.

The tug FLYING HUNTRESS WAS SENT FROM Greenock to the HUNTSMAN’s assistance, and on Thursday night both tugs arrived all well at Donaghadee.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1882

BIRTH

DOUGLAS: At 10 South Crescent, Ardrossan, on the 25th instant, the wife of Charles D. Douglas; a son.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1947

OBITUARY – MR. CAMPBELL STEPHEN

The death occurred suddenly in a Glasgow Hotel at the week-end of Mr. Campbell Stephen, M.P. for the Camlachie Division of Glasgow.

Born at Bower, Caithness, in 1884, he was educated at Allan Glen’s School, Glasgow, and at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated M.A., B.Sc., and B.D.

[He was minister of the Park United Free Church, Ardrossan, between 1911 and 1917.]
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1890

PROPERTY SALE

On Saturday afternoon in the Railway Hotel the eligible steading with buildings thereon, situated on the north-west of Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, was purchased by Mr. Cook, Ardrossan, at £600.
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Penny Tray wrote: Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:13 am On Saturday afternoon in the Railway Hotel the eligible steading with buildings thereon, situated on the north-west of Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, was purchased by Mr. Cook, Ardrossan, at £600.
Does anyone know exactly where the Railway Hotel was in Glasgow Street?

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George,

I don't think that is what the article is saying - I read it as the sale of property in Glasgow Street was conducted in the Railway Hotel, which I've always assumed to have been in Princes Street?????
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Penny Tray

You are correct. I misunderstood. I'll be okay when I learn to read!

The Railway Hotel was in Princes Street as show in the photo below taken in the early 1900s. If you look closely at the building at the right, it is actually called the Station Hotel.
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George,

I have reproduced 20 or so newspaper articles which refer to the RAILWAY HOTEL, ARDROSSAN, which confirm that there was definitely a hotel by that name in the town, and unless I'm mistaken 'Down South' has previously posted that the STATION HOTEL was formerly the RAILWAY HOTEL. It's not a case of the STATION HOTEL being referred to as the RAILWAY HOTEL. The same building, I think, accommodated the two hotels by their different names. Maybe you're saying the same thing in a different way?
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 OCTOBER 1889

FOOTBALL
ARDROSSAN v. KILMARNOCK ATHLETIC

These clubs met at Ardrossan in the first round for the Ayrshire trophy.

Athletic kicked off downhill against the cold easterly breeze. For twenty minutes play was well balanced, but then Kilmarnock scored. Kinnear by a splendid run equalised a minute later. Kilmarnock scored again from the left. Before the finish one of the Ardrossan players scored, but no advantage was gained. There was no scoring in the second half, but Ardrossan put the ball through as the whistle blew for a previous foul.

Ardrossan, 1; Kilmarnock Athletic, 2.
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