Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 APRIL 1952

STEVENSTON TO VOTE ON BURGH ISSUE

At a public meeting in Stevenston last night, presided over by Sheriff Substitute G. Cormack Cohen, 412 electors voted in favour of the town becoming a burgh.

The motion was moved by Mr James Forde, and seconded by Mr Joseph Clark.

A demand signed by 12 electors, that a poll of electors be held was presented by Mr W. W. Small.

Sheriff Cormack Cohen intimated that a poll would be held within the next 28 days.

There are approximately 6400 electors in the proposed area of the burgh.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1882

STEVENSTON SCHOOL BOARD

The first meeting of the new Board was held yesterday afternoon – Rev. John Grahame in the chair.

On the motion of Mr Wilson, Rev. Mr Grahame was appointed chairman of the Board.

A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Dickie, returning officer.

A letter was read from Rev. Joseph Forrest, one of the elected members, resigning his seat at the Board, and the letter was allowed to lie on the table for a month.

The Board then proceeded to fill the vacancy in the number of members returned, and Mr McIsaac of Parkend was elected.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1888

LICENSING COURT - SALTCOATS

This Court met yesterday.

The chairman intimated that licensed houses would open at 8 a.m. and close at 10. P.m., and these hours would apply to grocers.

All the old licenses were granted in Saltcoats, Ardrossan, and Stevenston.

The licensed premises in the district are as follows:-

Ardrossan – Hotels, 2; public-houses, 13; grocers, 8;
Saltcoats – Hotels, 3; public-houses, 12; grocers, 11;
Stevenston – Hotels, 2; public-houses, 12; grocers, 2.

Total, 65.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
18 APRIL 1918

ROBERT MITCHELL

Died at sea when S.S. POMERANIAN was torpedoed, Purser ROBERT MITCHELL, (30) - Theatre of war, at sea – son of Alexander and Margaret Boyd or Mitchell, 13 Main Street, Stevenston.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
19 APRIL 1918

THOMAS HAMILTON

Killed in action, Private THOMAS HAMILTON, (23), 12th Battalion Royal Scots – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – husband of Elizabeth Hamilton, 31 Carment Drive, Stevenston; brother of George, Annie, and Bertie Hamilton.

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Its been terrible the number of men from the Three Towns who have been killed in the last few weeks. If Russia hadn't surrendered there is a good chance some of those chaps would have survived the War.

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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
21 APRIL 1886

THE STEVENSTON MANSE REPAIRS

A meeting of the heritors of Stevenston Parish was held in the parish church there yesterday afternoon – Mr Archibald McJannet, factor of Ardeer estate, presiding – when the accounts in connection with the recent repairs on the manse were submitted.

They amounted to about £860, and it was agreed to impose an assessment on lands and heritages, according to their value as on valuation roll, at a rate of 9d per £1.

It was further agreed to uplift the sums in two instalments – the first on 1st June next, and the second on 1st June, 1887.

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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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GLASGOW HERALD
22 APRIL 1887

KILWINNING AND STEVENSTON CATTLE SHOW

This show took place yesterday at Oxenward, the weather being unfavourable prevented such a large turnout of spectators as is usual.

The show was in every other respect rather over an average.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
23 APRIL 1918

JOSEPH GILMOUR

Killed on H.M.S. VINDICTIVE during naval attack at Zeebrugge, Able Seaman JOSEPH GILMOUR, (21), son of Thomas and Susan Gilmour, ‘Seaview Cottage’, 49 Shore Road, Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 APRIL 1883

STEVENSTON – MAN DROWNED

On Sunday, about 5 p.m., a collier named JAMES McLELLAN, from Iron Works Square, Kilwinning, was accidentally drowned in the mill dam a short distance from the village.

It appears that McLellan and a companion who came to Stevenston during the day lay down on the grass at the edge of the dam and fell asleep.

Thee little girls who were near the place some time afterwards observed McLellan stumble as he was rising, and fall into the dam, which was 8 or 10 feet deep. They raised an alarm, and several men proceeded to the spot and recovered the body, life being extinct.

McLellan’s companion was unaware of what had taken place.

Deceased was unmarried and about 50 years of age.