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by Max
Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: Schools - The Schools we attended
Topic: Auchenharvie Academy Staff Memories of 1970s and 1980s
Replies: 3
Views: 7228

Re: Auchenharvie Academy Staff Memories of 1970s and 1980s

I’m surprised that Mr Strachan’s name didn’t make the list, he was a dab hand at throwing rubber erasers at you with a target drawn on the blackboard. He also was not one to shy away from using the belt on the boys.
by Max
Mon Nov 06, 2023 11:16 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: The Albert Hall.........................Saltcoats
Replies: 10
Views: 7070

Re: The Albert Hall.........................Saltcoats

Resurrecting this old thread to satisfy my curiosity if there are any old maps showing Green Street as Girnal Street. The old OS maps maps online don’t appear to go any further back than 1855.
by Max
Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:19 pm
Forum: General Photos
Topic: I'll show you mine if you show me yours ;-)
Replies: 73
Views: 101018

Re: I'll show you mine if you show me yours ;-)

Did we ever work out the timeline that the Windy Ha spire was removed?
by Max
Sun Jan 01, 2023 8:21 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8115
Views: 1436982

Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History

THE ST. JOHN, NEWFOUNDLAND, 'EVENING TELEGRAPH 28 NOVEMBER 1899 THE 'LUCERNE' ARRIVES The S.S. LUCERNE, Captain W G Cross, arrived this morning at 10.15 o'clock. She left Ardrossan on Saturday, the 18th inst., and experienced fair weather for most of the passage. Strong north-west winds prevailed f...
by Max
Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:14 am
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Ardrossan Gasworks Railway Siding
Replies: 13
Views: 5293

Re: Ardrossan Gasworks Railway Siding

You can see the railway siding in this old OS map website link.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/82867011
by Max
Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:12 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Local Photographers
Replies: 4
Views: 915

Re: Local Photographers

R.T. Evans and sons were another well known photographer in the Three Towns. They used to have a shop at 94 Dockhead Street, also another one over on New Street in Stevenston that sold audio equipment and appliances as well.
by Max
Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:29 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Looking Back - Herald files
Replies: 341
Views: 278563

Re: Looking Back - Herald files

25 YEARS AGO on March 11, 1983 AT Mays' filling station in Saltcoats, A pipe flange fractured allowing the load to spill out on to the road. Was the AT Mays filling station the old garage on the High Road that got flattened and rebuilt as an Esso garage about the same time that they built Tescos?
by Max
Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:22 am
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: old pics
Replies: 8
Views: 2028

Re: old pics

Hi there... that house is actually opposite mine Parkend Avenue only has two houses one is a grand Victorian era house and the other looks to be 1800s early ? which is where I live.. seems to have been built as a boarding house or Inn possibly .. lots of outbuildings in the back ... according to th...
by Max
Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:14 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Reminiscences of Ardrossan
Replies: 23
Views: 28047

Re: Reminiscences of Ardrossan

Interesting article, I wasn’t aware of what the Plimsoll Act was but a quick Google search found this article. Explains why a lot of the older ships built in Saltcoats ended up being beached to become wrecks.

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/plimsoll.html
by Max
Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:59 pm
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: The ... What are you doing or thinking right now - Topic
Replies: 5720
Views: 1282399

Re: The ... What are you doing or thinking right now - Topic

So sad to see that another three of my favourite shops in Saltcoats are selling up. Namely MacKays, now M&Co, and Crawfords card shop, both in Dockhead Street, which I have frequented since the 1960's as far as I can remember. But to see Avanti's in Hamilton closing too is a real shame. They se...
by Max
Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:50 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: First Bank of Saltcoats
Replies: 4
Views: 2765

Re: First Bank of Saltcoats

Awesome, I typically only look at the six inch to one mile OS maps, I never thought to use the 25 inch to one mile maps for more detail, which makes perfect sense.

One to remember for future map looking.
by Max
Mon Jan 18, 2021 12:46 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: First Bank of Saltcoats
Replies: 4
Views: 2765

Re: First Bank of Saltcoats

So that would have been the building at the gable end of where the Coopers food bar is now, that would make sense. There was a photo on the Three Towns Explored FB page recently that showed this building still standing. Here’s a link to a copy of that one. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15LRiXDE-Lc...