Ardrossan - On This Day In History

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
28 AUGUST 1880

FLOWER SHOW AT ARDROSSAN

The annual exhibition of the Ardrossan Horticultural Society took place on Thursday in the Town Hall. The show was not up to the mark of former years, pot plants and cut flowers showing a considerable falling off in the entries.

Mr. Matthew Henderson, Mill Farm, Ardrossan, had a very good collection of lilium and balsams being remarkably good.

A very choice lot of plants exhibited by Mr. Clasper, florist, Stevenston, made an attractive display on the centre table.

Visitors to the exhibition during the evening were numerous, the weather being fine, and Mr. Leckie’s quadrille band played selections of music at intervals.

Mr. Crawford, the secretary, and the committee were painstaking in their efforts to make the show a success.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
28 AUGUST 1899

ARDROSSAN REGATTA

The first regatta held here for several years came off on Saturday in the North Bay. The weather was of the finest, the only regrettable feature being the lack of wind.

The programme was lengthy.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
28 AUGUST 1891

LAUNCH AT AYR

Yesterday afternoon Messrs S. McKnight & Company, shipbuilders, Ayr, launched from their yard a twin-screw steam yacht. This vessel, as well as the one launched last week, has been designed by Mr. Robert Kent, naval architect, Ardrossan, under whose superintendence she has been built.

The vessel on leaving the ways was gracefully named HELGA by Mrs. Kent, Ardrossan.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
29 AUGUST 1896

DEATH

CURRIE: At Ardrossan, on the 27th instant, Flora Currie, for over sixty years the faithful servant and friend in the family of the late Dr. Samuel Clarke.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
29 AUGUST 1894

POOR LAW CASE

An action was raised in Ayr Sheriff Court, at the instance of Ardrossan Parochial Board, against the Parochial Board of Kirkmichael, for relief for the maintenance of a pauper confined in Ayr District Asylum.

It was alleged that Kirkmichael was the place of birth, and that the pauper had no settlement in Ardrossan parish. The defendant parish denied liability, but admitted that Kirkmichael was the parish of birth. They contended, however, that a settlement had been acquired by the pauper in Ardrossan parish.

The Sheriff (Orr Paterson) in his interlocutor, finds that the pauper resided continuously in the parish of Ardrossan from Martinmas, 1887, till November, 1893, with the exception of a period of six weeks or a little over a month in 1892, when she was in service in the adjoining parish of Stevenston, and he finds that the continuity of her residence in the parish of Ardrossan was not interrupted by this absence in Stevenston, and that she had a residential settlement in Ardrossan at the date she became chargeable.

He assoilzies defenders from the conclusions of this action, and finds them entitled to expenses.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
30 AUGUST 1898

DEATH

AITKEN: At 10 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, Christian Lawson Cleland, relict of the Reverend Charles Simpson Aitken, M.A., incumbent of Coatbridge Episcopal Church.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
30 AUGUST 1898

THE DANGER OF HOLIDAY RESORTS – FEVER CASES IN GLASGOW

At a meeting of the Health Committee of Glasgow Corporation yesterday afternoon the usual fortnightly report by the Medical Officer of Health for the city was submitted. In it occurs the following paragraph: -

“The return of holiday-makers from the various summer resorts usually brings within our knowledge a number of cases of infectious disease occurring in our midst, but referable to sources of infection beyond the city. It seldom happens that these cases group themselves with such concentration as in the following illustration: -

During the present month 17 cases of enteric fever have been notified from various districts of the city, all of whom had been or were at the date of sickening holidaying either in Ardrossan or Saltcoats.

Ten cases are referable to Ardrossan and seven to Saltcoats.”

[Penny Tray]

ARDROSSAN & SALTCOATS HERALD
30 AUGUST 1889

DEATH

HOSIE: At 2 Hill Street Ardrossan, on the 27th instant, Robert Hosie, locomotive fireman, aged 21 years, only beloved son of Jeanie Anderson Hosie.

FATAL RESULT OF A SIMPLE ACCIDENT

On Tuesday a young man named Robert Hosie, locomotive fireman on the Glasgow & South-Western Railway, died from the effects of an injury received while at work one day three weeks ago.
It happened in this wise. Two surfacemen who were passing came onto the footboard of his engine, and one of men “tickled” him. Young Hosie, not being accustomed to or able to stand that sort of thing fell forward against the coal-board of his engine, and the two men fell on the top of him.
Consulting the doctor a few days after, he was advised to go home for a time and poultice the part, but, not to cause alarm he did neither of these things. Some time after his sufferings forced him to go home.
Inflammation of the bowels was the cause of death. Much sympathy is felt for his widowed mother and relatives.

The unfortunate lad was 21 years of age.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
31 AUGUST 1891

LAWN TENNIS
ARDROSSAN v. KILMARNOCK PORTLAND

On Saturday afternoon a match between the Ardrossan Lawn Tennis Club and Kilmarnock Portland Juniors was played on Ardrossan Curling and Lawn Tennis courts with the following result: -

Ardrossan, 8 sets, 64 games; Kilmarnock, 4 sets, 48 games.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
31 AUGUST 1892

BIRTH

MACDONALD: At 89 Princes Street, Ardrossan, on the 30th instant, the wife of J. MacDonald, M.B., C.M.; a daughter.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
31 AUGUST 1895

DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN SHIPPING AGENT

After a lingering and painful illness extending over many months, Mr. James Guthrie, of the firm of Messrs A. & J. Guthrie, shipping agents at Troon, Ayr, and Ardrossan, passed away at Troon on Thursday afternoon.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
31 AUGUST 1897

BREAKING INTO AN AUTOMATIC MACHINE

At Ardrossan Burgh Court yesterday two lads, named ARCHIBALD KIRK, aged eight years, residing in Montgomerie Lane, and JAMES FULLERTON, aged eight years, residing in Montgomerie Lane, were convicted of breaking into an automatic machine on South Beach Station, and stealing 24 cakes of butterscotch, on the 22nd instant.

Kirk was fined 10s, or seven days imprisonment, while Fullerton was dismissed with an admonition.