Stevenston - On This Day In History

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Penny Tray wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:33 am ARDROSSAN & SALTCOATS HERALD
12 DECEMBER 1919

DEATH

JAMES WALES, killed at Douglas Park Pit, Bellshill, husband of Margaret Maxwell – Funeral from 77 Boglemart Street, Stevenston.
HAMILTON ADVERTISER
13 DECEMBER 1919

BELLSHILL – FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT

A distressing colliery accident with a fatal termination, befell JAMES WALES while at work at the Blackband coal seam on Douglas Park Colliery at 1.15 on Tuesday.

While at work a fall from the roof came away, and he was almost instantly killed where he worked.

He was a married man with two children who resided at 130 Motherwell Road, Bellshill, and to whom the sympathy of the community is extended.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 DECEMBER 1873

MEETING OF MINERS

Yesterday at noon, a meeting of the miners in the districts of Irvine, Kilwinning, and Stevenston was held in the Temperance Hall, Kilwinning. Mr Storey occupied the chair, and Mr McDonald delivered a long address, warmly pleading the necessity for union. He severely censured the conduct of some men who had been taking an unfair advantage of their fellow-workmen in the district.

From the reports given in, it appeared that in Stevenston within 10 weeks 770 men had joined the union, that in Kilwinning the unionists numbered 300, and that in Irvine all the workmen were unionists with the exception of four or five.

The result of the meeting was the adoption of a resolution in favour of the establishment of an organisation throughout the district by which the eight hour system might be secured.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 DECEMBER 1859

INCUBATION EXTRAORDINARY – STEVENSTON

Notwithstanding the present very inclement season of the year, we understand that the inmates of Ardeer House were thrown into an agreeable state of excitement by the appearance on Saturday morning the 17th instant of a family of five young bougerie-gardes, the offspring of parents from the antipodes – a rare instance of the instinct of these birds, in bringing out their young at the appointed season, this being the Australian summer.

We are led to believe that the mother and her offspring are “going on as well as might be expected,” from the constant chirping which proceeds from the interior of their cocoa-nut shell; but as we failed in procuring the attendance of the only skilful doctor in the neighbourhood, who was most unaccountably from home on this interesting occasion, we cannot at present speak more precisely on the subject.
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GLASGOW HERALD
23 DECEMBER 1961

FEARS FOR THE FUTURE OF NORTH AYRSHIRE
THREE PROVOSTS MEET SIR FITZROY MACLEAN

An unhealthy picture of the district’s economic future was painted by the provosts of Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and Stevenston yesterday, when members of the three town councils met the M.P. for Bute and North Ayrshire, Sir Fitzroy Maclean.

The meeting was arranged at the instigation of Stevenston Town Council. Provost J. Forde of that burgh said that when 150 boys leave school early in the New Year there will be a job for only one of them, in a multiple grocery store.

The unemployment figure for the district was 6.5%.

Provost R. Lambie, Saltcoats, and Provost W. Currie, Ardrossan, spoke of the position at Ardeer Factory and Ardrossan Dockyard, the two main employers of labour in the area.

At Ardeer automation and the opening of new factories in India and South Africa had seriously affected the production of industrial explosives.

The dockyard might have to close down next year unless new work was forthcoming.

MORE FACTORIES NEEDED

Provost Lambie urged the need for more factories at the Kilwinning Industrial Estate. He said there was only one factory there and he understood the charges for sites on this estate were higher than on others. He suggested the Government should build advance factories as an inducement to firms to come to this area.

Provost Lambie also asked Sir Fitzroy to approach the Admiralty and other Government Departments to send either new work or repair work to Ardrossan.

Provost Currie suggested the opening of a pre-apprentice training school in the district.

Sir Fitzroy said it appeared that the best hope of improving employment was to bring in new light industries and apart from the war time canning factory at Ardrossan, he thought the sites should be in the Kilwinning and Irvine industrial estates. He suggested that more attention should be given to publicising the area and that councils should consider what inducements they might offer industrialists to open factories.

Sir Fitzroy undertook to raise points made during the discussion with the Government. He said he was visiting America early in the New Year and he would try to interest American firms in the facilities available in the district.
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GLASGOW HERALD
29 DECEMBER 1877

INDIAN MISSION

The Rev. Mr Grahame, Stevenston, has received from an unknown donor a sum of £70 for this mission scheme.
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GLASGOW HERALD
30 DECEMBER 1912

COURT OF SESSION
BROTHER SUES A SISTER

The Lord President and a jury tried the action in which ALEXANDER SMITH, confectioner, Raise Street, Saltcoats, sued his sister, Mrs ELIZABETH SMITH or CARSON or PATON, confectioner, Boglemart Street, Stevenston, wife of JAMES PATON, wholesale confectioner, Stevenston, for £250 damages.

The pursuer said that at one time he was the tenant of a shop in Saltcoats belong to the Carson family, and when he left it he took with him his stock-in-trade and a counter which he himself had bought.

The defender averred that the stock-in-trade and the counter belonged to the proprietors of the shop, of which the said pursuer was manager only.

The pursuer presented for issues to the jury:

(1) Whether on March 2, 1912, the defender wrote to the pursuer a postcard representing that he had been guilty of the crime of theft;

(2) whether on March 12, 1912, at the pursuer’s shop in Raise Street, the defender said of the pursuer – “You are harbouring the thief and his stolen property”;

(3) whether on March 12, 1912, at the same place, the defender said the pursuer had robbed and swindled her and her family, and was living on money he had stolen from her; and

(4) whether the defender on the same day lodged information with the police accusing the pursuer of having stolen a counter from a shop in Canal Street.

The postcard referred to was in the following terms:-

“Smith McArthur, hawkers, Raise Street, Saltcoats – When you have got baldy-headed Sanny plucked McCaddie you will find no use for him. When you have got the stolen property you will never have the pleasure to enjoy it.”

The defender denied having written or sent the postcard, and she also denied having made the statements complained of, and explained that any report made by her to the police was in good faith and privileged.

The Lord President withdrew from the jury the first, third and fourth issues, on the ground that there was no legal evidence to support them.

The jury retired, and after an absence of two hours returned with a verdict for the defender on the second issue. The foreman said the jury were unanimous that the words complained of in the second issue were uttered by the defender, but by a majority they found that the words were uttered in February and not in March.

The Lord President directed that that was a verdict for the defender.

It was an agreement of counsel that a verdict by a majority was accepted.
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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1915

STEVENSTON – THE NEW YEAR

The public works in the district closed for holidays on Thursday afternoon. This year the holiday at certain works is curtailed, and there will be a general resumption of work on Tuesday morning. The licensed houses in the town were only open for a few hours, and the majority of shops were closed.
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22 JANUARY 1819

THE TRELAWNY

The vessel TRELAWNY, on a voyage from Glasgow to Jamaica, was driven ashore and wrecked near Stevenston with the loss of fifteen of the twenty people on board. Four rescuers also died.
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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JANUARY 1959

POLICE WARNING ON PLATINUM THEFT

A warning to metal brokers and refiners on both sides of the Border to be on the look-out for a quantity of platinum gauze stolen from the Imperial Chemical Industries factory at Ardeer, Ayrshire, has been issued by the police.

The platinum, which is worthy about £5000 and was used in the manufacture of nitric acid, was stolen over the New Year holiday period.
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Probably the same case because security would be tightened up after this. I was informed when I joined I.C.I. that a guy had pinched it to make a rabbit hutch and I think he lived in Saltcoats. The platinum was recovered.
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Jings that would have been some rabbit hutch :D
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Haha Bill, it must have been a hutch for Bugs Bunny. :)
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