Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 FEBRUARY 1878

COURT OF SESSION – BEFORE LORD CRAIGHILL
MARSHALL v. THE SCHOOL BOARD OF ARDROSSAN


Charles Marshall, 19 Eglinton Street, Saltcoats, who at one time was parochial schoolmaster of the parish of Ardrossan, has raised an action against the School Board of Ardrossan, in which he seeks for declaratory that defenders are bound to grant him a retiring allowance, the amount of which shall be not less than two-thirds of the salary pertaining to the office of teacher of the public school in Ardrossan.

This sum pursuer calculates at not less than £117 6s 8d, which he says should be payable to him half-yearly.

On record pursuer states that he has been a teacher since 1830; that in 1851 he received Privy Council certificate of the first division of the second degree of merit, which in 1868 was raised to the first division of the first degree of merit; that in 1850 he was appointed parochial schoolmaster of the parish of Ardrossan, and that he fulfilled his duties with diligence, success, and without complaint.

After the passing of the Education Act, he says the School Board were hostile to him, both by neglect of their duties and by positive acts.

At great length the pursuer details the attempts which he instituted in the Court of Session to reduce a judgment of removal, which action was dismissed on relevancy, and also to the action to recover certain sums paid to the Board on account of the burning of the school building, the use of which he had given to the Board. In this action he was successful.

Exasperated by this success, and at their failures to remove him, pursuer alleges that defenders, by a course of acts and omissions, brought about by a set of circumstances calculated to convey false impressions to the mind of the Government Inspector (Dr. Wilson), who in April last year reported upon the unsatisfactory state of the school, and attributed this condition of affairs to the incompetency, unfitness, or inefficiency of the pursuer.

The result was that the Board, on 10th May last, passed a judgment removing pursuer from his office, and in June following the Board of Education confirmed this judgment, but in so far only as regarded his removal.

He states that by sections 19 and 20 of the Parochial and Burgh Schoolmasters (Scotland) Act, 1861, and section 29(2) of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, pursuer is entitled as a matter of right to a retiring allowance during his lifetime of not less than two-thirds of the salary of the office which in 1873 was fixed at £176. Two-thirds of this sum is £117 6s 8d, the amount sued for.

Besides, he says, he is infirm both physically and mental from old age. He is now 67 years of age, 42 of which have been spent in active service as a teacher.

Pursuer has an alternative plea of £2500 in name of damages and compensation.

Defenders deny the main allegations of the pursuer, and maintain that their whole procedure was regular and in conformity with the statute. They further say that they were satisfied that the inefficiency of the pursuer was due to negligence and inattention, and not to old age or infirmity, and they came to that conclusion upon sufficient grounds.

The record was closed today, and the case was sent to the procedure roll.
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CASUALTY OF WAR
27 FEBRUARY 1919

Died as a result of service, having been released under Paragraph 392 (XVI) of King’s Regulations (on account of being permanently physically unfit), Private ANDREW ALEXANDER GARDINER, (29), Royal Army Service Corps, born at and resident of Ardrossan, son of Robert and Mary Gardiner, Steelbank Cottage, Dalgarven, Kilwinning.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 FEBRUARY 1871

DEATH

At 23 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on the 26th instant, Thomas, infant son of Thomas Orr.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 FEBRUARY 1874

DEATH

At 50 Princes Street, Ardrossan, on the 26th instant, Jessie, wife of Henry O. Cullen, and only daughter of the late Thomas Mitchell, Glasgow.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 FEBRUARY 1874

ARDROSSAN PAROCHIAL BOARD

The half-yearly meeting was held on Thursday evening – Dr. Brown presiding.

Dr. Marshall resigned his appointment as one of the auditors of the board’s books.

On the roll being revised, it was found that the number of paupers on the list was 148, lower than it had been for a period of 12 years.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 FEBRUARY 1879

ARDROSSAN GRAIN MARKET

The attendance at Thursday’s market was very good – 92 bolls wheat, 34 quarters oats, a small parcel of barley, and 8 quarters beans were sold.
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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MARCH 1878

ARDROSSAN GRAIN MARKET

The attendance at market on Thursday was somewhat small.

There was exposed 132 bolls wheat, and 16 bolls oats – 75 bolls wheat sold at from 21s 6d to 22s per boll.
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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MARCH 1901

ARDROSSAN HARBOUR – NOTICE TO MARINERS

The notice of 16 October last regarding the flashing white light from the lighthouse at the north end of the south breakwater is withdrawn, and this flashing white light will, on and after the 1st March next, show from North 54 degrees east to east, as far as the land will permit.

By order
John Craig
General Manager and Secretary
Ardrossan Harbour Company and Offices
Ardrossan
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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MARCH 1960

ARDROSSAN YARD ORDER – CONTAINER SHIP FOR COAST LINES

Coast Lines have ordered a container ship from the Ardrossan Dockyard Company Limited. At 1550 tons gross it will be the biggest ship in the Coast Lines fleet.

The order will provide about a year’s work for the Ardrossan yard, which has been busy during the past year in the construction of motor barges for the Caribbean Equipment Company, and a trawler for local owners. The trawler is due to be launched next month and three of the nine barges ordered have still to be launched.

The container ship will join several others of this type which are now being operated by Coast Lines.

The SPANIEL and the POINTER, on the Liverpool-Belfast run, were converted from general cargo carrying to container carrying at the Ardrossan yard last year.

Coast Lines container ships are also operating on the Ardrossan-Newry run.

The new ship will have an Atlas Polar diesel engine of 2800 brake horsepower. She is designed for a service speed of about 12 knots.
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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MARCH 1966

UNION BRANCHES MERGE

Ardrossan and Greenock branches of the National Union of Seamen were merged with the Glasgow branch yesterday as part of the union’s plan to streamline methods and organisation.

The union states that the aim is to centralise services on the larger branches where that can be done without impairing the service to members.
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GLASGOW HERALD
2 MARCH 1875

APPOINTMENT

We understand that Mr J. Lambert Bailey, writer, Ardrossan, has been appointed a commissioner for taking affidavits before the English and Irish Courts of Chancery and Superior Courts of Common Law, etc.
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GLASGOW HERALD
2 MARCH 1877

ARDROSSAN GRAIN MARKET

There was a good attendance at this market on Thursday and a brisk business – 120 bolls of wheat and 70 bolls oats were exposed, which sold as follows: - 10 bolls wheat at 21s 6d, and 110 bolls at 21s; 10 bolls oats at 24s, and 9 at 23s 3d.
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