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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1859

BELFAST AND ARDROSSAN

The splendid and powerful steamer EAGLE has been placed on the station between Belfast and Ardrossan.

This steamer made the passage from Ardrossan to Belfast in about six hours.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1860

ISLE OF ARRAN STEAMER

We understand the ISLE OF ARRAN steamer, which plied for so many years in connection with trains on the Glasgow & South-Western Railway, has been laid up as being unfit to continue any longer on the station, and that the company to which it belonged has been dissolved, thereby leaving an important and lucrative station open for some of our enterprising steamboat owners to take up.

The number of families that frequent this beautiful island during the summer and autumn months makes it a sufficient guarantee that it would be remunerative if the railway company continued the same liberal terms to any new company which they did to the old, and if a first class steamer, fit to run between Ardrossan and Arran, should present itself.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1873

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Queenstown, January 9 – The NORGE HANSEN, from Ardrossan to St. Jago de Cuba, has put in here with loss of bulwarks and stanchions.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1874

ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD

The monthly meeting was held in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, on Thursday evening. Provost Barr occupied the chair.

It was agreed to supply school books to the children at cost price, to be supplied by the schoolmaster.

On the motion of the Provost, it was agreed to instruct Mr Thomas Wallace to proceed with the repairing of Saltcoats School, recently injured by fire.

The Clerk stated that the insurance company had paid £413 in settlement of the Board’s claim for damage by the late fire.

A committee was appointed to inquire into the conduct of Dr. Marshall in removing the gas fittings and grates from his school, and also as to his refusal to collect the fees.

The Board appointed Mr James Blair as officer for Ardrossan district.

The salaries of the officers were fixed as follows: -

Clerk and Treasurer, £60; Saltcoats officer, £20; and Ardrossan officer, £20.

The Board afterwards adjourned.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1877

ARDROSSAN COURSING CLUB

The contest for the Champion Collar of the Ardrossan Club was begun today over the estate of the Earl of Glasgow, by the kind permission of Mr W. H. Houldsworth, who has leased the shootings from the noble Earl.

Fenwick was the place of the meet, and from there it adjourned to the farm of Damdykes, afterwards visiting Hill, Haer, Burnfoot, Bowkelly, etc.

The meet tomorrow is at Waterside.
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Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette
January 11, 1952

Docker Dies From Injuries

John Marr (47); docker, 10 Paisley Street, Ardrossan, died in Kilmarnock Infirmary on Monday a few hours after a piece of scrap steel had fallen on him from a crane at Ardrossan harbour. The accident occurred shortly after half-past eight on Monday morning.

John was one of a squad of men working in the for'ard hold of the Sea Fisher which was discharging a cargo of scrap at Eglinton Dock when the piece of metal weighing approximately half a hundred weight fell from the grab of one of the two cranes working in the hatch. He was given first aid and medical attention before being rushed to the infirmary.

The deceased was unmarried. He was the eldest of four brothers, all dockers. Youngest brother William was also working on the Sea Fisher when the accident occurred. John Marr was highly respected in the town. A man of temperate habits, he was keen football enthusiast and organised bus parties to the local Winton Rovers' away games. The funeral took place to Ardrossan Cemetery yesterday (Thursday).
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GLASGOW HERALD
11 JANUARY 1876

GENERAL SHIPPING ITEM

Ardrossan, January 10 – The French brigantine LE BON PERE, reported as having gone ashore near the harbour entrance, has been towed off and brought into the harbour. She is making water, but does not seem to have suffered much damage.
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GLASGOW HERALD
11 JANUARY 1877

ARDROSSAN COURSING CLUB

Sport was resumed this morning over the Waterside portion of the estate under favourable circumstances, the weather, although bitterly cold, being otherwise all that could be desired for coursing.

In Class VI, Mr R. Gilmour’s PEACE AND PLENTY beat Mr J. Speirs’s SECURITY, and won the Champion Collar.
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GLASGOW HERALD
11 JANUARY 1879

ENTERTAINMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNEMPLOYED

The committee in charge of entertainment on behalf of the unemployed in Ardrossan have been enabled to arrange for a further distribution of coals to the poor.

The soup kitchen continues to be well patronised, no less than 425 gifts of bread, soup, and beef having been donated during the last three days on which it opened.
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CASUALTY OF WAR
11 JANUARY 1917

Died on service, Private JOHN McLEAN, 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry – Theatre of war, Mesopotamia – son of William McLean, joiner, Ardrossan.

The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald subsequently reported: -

“Private John McLean, H.L.I., who was killed in action at the Persian Gulf, was the eldest son of Mr McLean, joiner, Ardrossan. He joined the forces on 21st February last year, and left for the front in August last.

Private McLean was at one time engaged at Saltcoats Station (Glasgow & South-Western Railway) and later acted as clerk at Rothesay, Largs, and Troon. At the latter station he was booking clerk for nine years prior to enlisting. He was well known locally as well as at Troon, and sympathy is extended to the family in their bereavement.”
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 JANUARY 1849

DEATH

At Ardrossan, on the 8th instant, Dr. MacFadzean.

DEATH OF DR. MACFADZEAN OF ARDROSSAN

It is our melancholy duty to announce the death of another of our esteemed and efficient Ayrshire medical practitioners – Alexander MacFadzean, Esquire, M.D., Ardrossan.

This gentleman died yesterday (8th January, 1849), after an illness of a few days, caused by rose in his limbs.

By his demise, Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and surrounding country, have been deprived of a zealous promoter of all works of utility, an efficient county magistrate, and a skilful surgeon, who held a long and high professional position in these localities. He bestowed much of his time and professional skills, with gratuitous medicine, on the poor; from his situation, he had opportunities of minutely knowing the peculiar circumstances and characters of the indigent, and by his judicious advocacy of their claims to the wealthy and benevolent, alms and clothing were freely doled out, through such agency, to many deserving objects, who might otherwise have not been recipients of such bounty.

In private circles he was deemed humorous and agreeable; in his professional capacity, confiding, attentive, soothing, and tender-hearted; and all classes, of various shades of political and religious opinion, will long cherish a warm respect for his memory.

By the loss of Dr. MacFadzean, James Oswald, Esquire, of Auchencruive and Cavens; Louise Oswald; Andrew and Alexander Oswald Mitchell, Esquires, writers, Glasgow, and other members of the family of the late Andrew Mitchell, Esquire, of Maulside, etc., will be placed in mourning.

[ROSE in the above context is “a bump, blister, or weal, appearing as a swelling on the skin.”]
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 JANUARY 1872

BIRTH

At 60 Princes Street, Ardrossan, on the 11th instant, the wife of James Fullerton, junior, ironmonger; a son.
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