Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JANUARY 1865

BANKRUPT

In the sequestration of THOMAS ROBERTSON, flesher, Ardrossan, bankrupt appeared and took the statutory oath before Sheriff Anderson on Thursday.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JANUARY 1874

DEATH

At Stranraer on 22nd instant, Elizabeth Hannah, relict of Captain McCredie of Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JANUARY 1878

NARROW ESCAPE FROM SUFFOCATION

Yesterday morning, a seaman on board the schooner FLORA KELSO, of Ardrossan, presently lying at Sneddon Quay, Paisley, had a narrow escape from suffocation.

The crew numbered three – Captain John McMillan; Archibald McMillan, the mate; and Alexander McMillan, A.B. seaman. The first two slept during the night in the cabin, and Alexander, the seaman, in the forecastle.

The latter, before retiring to rest on Monday night partially closed the hatchway, and this prevented the egress of the smoke from the fire in his chamber. When discovered in the morning by the mate the room was entirely filled with sulphurous vapour caused by the smoke, and the seaman lying in bed quite unconscious.

He was removed to the house of the deputy harbour-master and Dr. MacLeod called in, but till a late hour last night his services were effectual in recovering consciousness.

The captain and the mate are brothers, and Alexander, the seaman, their cousin. They all belong to Arran.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JANUARY 1879

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The GLENGARNOCK, Captain McFarlane, from Belfast to Ardrossan, collided with an unknown barque off Corsewall Light, and has one plate injured.

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Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette
January 24, 1947

Died in Bus
A painful incident took place in a bus travelling between Ardrossan and Saltcoats on Tuesday when a thirteen year-old girl, Mary Hastings. Kirkhall Drive, died. Deceased had boarded the bus along with her sister, a conductress, and immediately after complained of a pain at her heart (which might have been caused by the extreme cold). Before the bus could reach Dr Arnott's surgery the unfortunate young girl was found to be dead.
Much sympathy will go out to the family in this sad and sudden bereavement..

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JANUARY 1874

DEATH

At 27 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on the 22nd instant, aged 23 years, Margaret Russell, third daughter of the late Captain Dougald McFee.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JANUARY 1874

ARDROSSAN COURSING CLUB

The spring meeting of this club gas been fixed to take place at Fenwick, near Kilmarnock, on the 24th February.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JANUARY 1876

TRADE REPORT

The shipments of pig iron at Ardrossan Harbour for the week ending Saturday were: -

Coastwise, 1333 tons; Foreign, 460 tons; Total, 1793 tons.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JANUARY 1877

THE BURNS BIRTHDAY BOOK

The Burns Birthday Book (Ardrossan: Arthur Guthrie. London: Houlslton & Sons) is an exceedingly dainty little volume “dedicated to the admirers of Scotia’s national bard” throughout the world.

Thousands will, no doubt, gladly welcome the opportune souvenir; and no young countrywoman of Burns, if she looks forward to her own birthday, or remembers that of her friends, should neglect to furnish herself with a copy.

Of the beauty of the letterpress Ardrossan may feel proud, and the printer has done his work with elegance and taste.

The selection of verse and stanza which appear under each date show that the poet’s works have been searched with delicacy of appreciation and culled from with tact and judgment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JANUARY 1877

THE ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SALTCOATS SCHOOLMASTER

The record was closed today in an action raised in the Court of Session by Charles Marshall, lately parochial schoolmaster, Ardrossan, and now teacher of the Saltcoats public school, against the School Board, Ardrossan, in which he concludes for £68 as house rent, and to have the School Board ordained to rebuild the school-house, destroyed by the fire, or to invest the sum of £400 odds obtained from the Insurance Company for that purpose.

He further concludes for £34 a year as house rent until the board provide him with a new house.

In December, 1873, the house, which was temporarily used as a schoolroom took fire and was destroyed, and the first sum is for rent, which pursuer has since paid; and as he says he is unable to get a house for less than £34 a year, he concludes for this sum or alternatively a new house.

The defenders give as their reason for not rebuilding the house that it is situated in the lowest part of the town inhabited by the poorest class.

Shortly after the board came into existence they entered into an arrangement with pursuer, under which pursuer was to give up his house for school purposes, and the defenders agreed to pay him a salary of £176, and £24 as a house rent, and to this arrangement they say the pursuer agreed, and he has been receiving £24 since Whitsunday, 1873. But to this the purser says he could not get a house to suit him under £34 a year.

The defenders say that the fire was occasioned through the fault of the pursuer kindling fires on the hearth after the removal of the grates, and they explain that they would not be justified in rebuilding the house.

Defenders further maintain that steps are being taken for the removal of the pursuer, under the 60th section of the Education Act.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 JANUARY 1870

THE STRANDED STEAMER DUKE OF EDINBURGH

Mr Weild, agent for the Glasgow underwriters, left Greenock with the screw lighter SEAMEW on Saturday forenoon for the scene of the disaster to this vessel. He arrived at night; but, it being quite dark, he did not board the vessel till daylight the following morning.

Soon afterwards Captain Coppin, of Londonderry, reached Ailsa Craig in the BALMORAL, having been sent thither by the Dublin underwriters, who are interested, to a small extent, in the DUKE OF EDINBURGH; and having surveyed the ship, and consulted with Mr Weild, he proceeded to Ardrossan with the view of getting men and materials for a scheme of launching, which he proposed to carry out.

He made that port about two in the afternoon; but the day being Sabbath, he, of course, found business entirely suspended. He was supplied, however, with the materials with which he desired, and with between forty and fifty men, and the party quitted Ardrossan at midnight.

Returned to the rock, he began as soon as possible, to construct “ways” for the purpose of launching, and he is very hopeful of success.

Mr Weild was favourable to the experiment being tried, though he was somewhat doubtful of the result.

Meanwhile, the more valuable portions of the cabin fittings, etc., are being removed from the steamer by tugs.

[The DUKE OF EDINBURGH, an iron paddle steamer, travelling at 13 knots, ran ashore in fog on Ailsa Craig, on 18 January, 1870. The sound of the crash was heard by a number of vessels, and the crew, passengers, and cargo of cattle, were taken away by these vessels. On the 3rd of February, 1870, during a strong south-westerly gale the vessel broke up and became a total wreck.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 JANUARY 1878

ARDROSSAN GRAIN MARKET

There was a good attendance at this market on Thursday.