Stevenston - On This Day In History

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CASUALTY OF WAR
29 NOVEMBER 1917

Killed in action, Private THOMAS ROWLEY, 5/6th Battalion Cameronians – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – son of Alexander and Margaret Rowley, Shore Road, Stevenston.
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GLASGOW HERALD
9 OCTOBER 1925

ARDEER ACCIDENT
WELL-KNOWN CHEMIST DIES FROM INJURIES

As a result of an accident which occurred in the research department of Nobel’s Explosives Company Limited at Ardeer on Wednesday, Dr. R. A. Joyner was so seriously injured that he died in the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, yesterday.

The accident occurred through the handling of explosives upon which Dr. Joyner was engaged carrying out a research, but the exact cause of the explosion which occurred is unknown.

Dr. Joyner was an explosives research chemist of great experience, and had been a member of the research staff at Ardeer for the past 12 years. He was a graduate of London and Bristol Universities, and he studied for three years in Germany, where he graduated at the Zurich Polytechnicum and the Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule. He specialised in the study of physical chemistry, and his work in this connection had proved him to be a skilled investigator.

Dr. Joyner, who was 38 years of age, is survived by a wife and three young children.


GLASGOW HERALD
2 DECEMBER 1925

PUBLIC INQUIRY

At a Public Inquiry at Kilmarnock yesterday into the death of REGINALD ARTHUR JOYNER, research chemist, Eglinton Street, Saltcoats, who was fatally injured while engaged in experimental work at Nobel’s Explosives Factory, Ardeer, Stevenston, on October 7 last, the jury returned a formal verdict.
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GLASGOW HERALD
3 DECEMBER 1874

THE STEVENSTON SCHOOL BOARD

The monthly meeting was held on Tuesday – Rev. George Philp in the chair.

The teachers’ report of attendance showed, on roll, of Stevenston Public School, 314; Ardeer, 232; Kyleshill, 110.

The report of Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools, in his examination of Ardeer Public School, and a statement of grant, was read, from which it appears that this school had earned the extra grant of 1s 6d per scholar on the average attendance, and also the extra grant of 2s per scholar for grammar and intelligence.

The report was considered satisfactory.

The total grant amounts to £99 15s.
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GLASGOW HERALD
4 DECEMBER 1912

FLOODING OF A STEVENSTON PIT

A new coal pit belonging to Glengarnock Iron and Steel Company Limited at Ardeer, Stevenston, has been flooded with water from old workings of pits adjoining. The water commenced to appear on Thursday last, and gradually rose until it was impossible for work to be carried through.

It is intended to pump the water out by powerful pumps.

The miners in Auchenharvie Colliery, Stevenston, have been withdrawn from three pits in the meantime as a precautionary measure. About 700 miners are affected.
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 DECEMBER 1912

FLOODING OF STEVENSTON PIT

The miners of Auchenharvie Colliery, Stevenston, have lifted their graith in consequence of the flooding of the new pit on Ardeer foreshore.

The water in the flooded pit has risen to within 45 fathoms from the top of the shaft, and is still gradually rising.

Auchenharvie pits are in proximity to the Ardeer pits, and on a lower level, and the withdrawal of the miners has been considered advisable until the Ardeer pit has been pumped clear of water.

The pits are worked by the Glengarnock Iron and Steel Company, and about 700 miners are employed.
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Penny Tray wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:19 am GLASGOW HERALD
6 DECEMBER 1912

FLOODING OF STEVENSTON PIT

The miners of Auchenharvie Colliery, Stevenston, have lifted their graith in consequence of the flooding of the new pit on Ardeer foreshore.
This had me thinking. The dictionary of old Scots tells me it means they took their tools home.
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I think graith is a mining term for personal belongings. I had an ex-miner working with me and he used the term when he was gathering up his things before going home.
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GLASGOW HERALD
8 DECEMBER 1873

SALTCOATS J.P. COURT

At this court on Friday, before Messrs William Mutter, John Barr, John G. Halkett, William Aitken, Patrick Warner, William Lockhart, and James L. Bailey – HENRY BLAIR, collier, Stevenston, was charged with a contravention of the General Turnpike Act by having on 22nd November, on the turnpike road leading from Stevenston to West Kilbride, discharged a gun “to the annoyance of James Galt, police constable, Stevenston, and James Edwin Smith, police constable, Saltcoats.”

Mr W. D. McJannet, solicitor, Irvine, for the panel objected to the relevancy of the complaint, in respect that it did not state that the gun was discharged “to the annoyance of any passenger or passengers,” as it was necessary, in terms of sub-section 13 of Section 90 of the Turnpike Act, it should do.

The objection was sustained, and the Fiscal, on application allowed to amend his complaint to the effect of stating that the two constables named were passengers. The panel then pled not guilty.

From the evidence given by the two constables, it appears that when the gun was discharged they were not on the West Kilbride turnpike road, but were sitting behind a stone wall on the road leading from Saltcoats to Dalry, which intersects the West Kilbride turnpike road, and that when he discharged his gun Blair was forty-five yards distant from them, and did not see them, and that, when discharged, the piece was not pointed in their direction.

In these circumstances the Justices by a majority of five to two dismissed the case.
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GLASGOW HERALD
9 DECEMBER 1912

THE FLOODED STEVENSTON PIT

Pumping operations have not yet been commenced in connection with the flooded Ardeer pit.

Over 100 of the miners thrown out of employment have been started as labourers in Ardeer Factory, and a large number more left the town on Saturday in search of employment.

It is not expected that work will be resumed in Auchenharvie Colliery, which is in proximity to the flooded pit, until a large quantity of the water has been pumped out of the Ardeer pit.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 DECEMBER 1920

FOOTBALL
SCOTTISH JUNIOR ASSOCIATION

The Scottish Junior Association Radius and Competition Committee met in Glasgow last night…..The Renfrewshire League protested against Eaglesham leaving that body and joining the Scottish League after signing their agreement. It was decided to hold them to the County League, thus leaving a vacancy in the Scottish League Second Division. A similar case was that of the Kilmarnock and District League, who appealed against Troon Athletic leaving to take up the place of Stevenston United, who were expelled from the Western League on account of having no ground of their own. Troon were held to the Kilmarnock League.
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GLASGOW HERALD
11 DECEMBER 1876

STEVENSTON PAROCHIAL BOARD

This Board met in the Old Public School on Friday evening – Mr William Lockhart in the chair.

A considerable number of pauper cases were disposed of.

There were three applications for education under the 69th section of the Education (Scotland) Act, two of which were granted and one refused.

A lengthened discussion took place as to the sanitary state of the parish, and a motion on the subject is to be considered at the next meeting. Meanwhile the Sanitary Committee have been discharged, and a new committee, consisting of Messrs John Marshall, William Gemmell, Archibald Pennelt, William Storrar, and James Clasper, appointed to make an inspection of the parish and report at next meeting.
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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.
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