Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 DECEMBER 1875

ARDROSSAN GRAIN MARKET

There was good attendance at market on Thursday.

There were 186 bolls wheat; 63 quarters oats, and 30 bolls rye exposed – 168 bolls wheat sold.
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GLASGOW HERALD
3 DECEMBER 1877

TRADE REPORT

The following are the shipments of pig iron for Ardrossan Harbour for the week: -

Coastwise, 505 tons; Foreign, 125 tons; Total, 630 tons.
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4 DECEMBER 1865

BIRTH

At 8 Arran Place, Ardrossan, on the 1st instant, Mrs Archibald; a son.
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GLASGOW HERALD
4 DECEMBER 1869

DINNER IN HONOUR OF LORD EGLINTON’S BIRTHDAY

The annual dinner in honour of the birthday of the Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Winton took place yesterday afternoon in the Eglinton Arms Hotel, Ardrossan.

There was a large assemblage of the feuars and farmers and their friends, upwards of fifty gentlemen being present.

The chair was occupied by Mr Francis Russell, of Kirkham, West Kilbride; while the duties of croupiers were discharged by Mr Andrew Allan, Munnoch, Dalry, and Mr David Cunninghame, Chapelton.
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GLASGOW HERALD
5 DECEMBER 1842

MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE

On the evening of Wednesday the 23rd ultimo, a man named HUGH HAMILTON, belonging to West Kilbride, who had spent the afternoon in Saltcoats, left the latter place about six o’clock, in company with another lad with the intention of returning home.

The two walked together to Ardrossan, where they agreed to make a call, but Hamilton, who was a good deal worse of drink, being a few paces behind his companion, had failed to mark the door he had entered, and went by mistake into an adjoining house, where he spent the greater part of an hour talking with the inmates, to whom he was an utter stranger.

In the meantime the other lad not knowing where to seek him, moved onward, thinking he might perhaps find him by the way.

It is supposed that Hamilton, in leaving the house referred to, had gone out by the back door into the garden, where he was found shortly afterwards by some members of another family, to whom he spoke rather incoherently.

From thence he had access to the unenclosed field behind, communicating on one side with the sea-beach, and on the other with the highway, but no trace of his subsequent movements has been discovered.

All hope of finding him alive being gone, every exertion has been making for some days past to discover his body, but hitherto without success.

He was about 30 years of age, and of rather slender person, was dressed in a blue jacket and black trousers, a pilot cloth vest, a blue and white striped shirt; he wore a Kilmarnock bonnet, and a pair of light shoes, quite new.

The circumstance has produced an intense sensation in the neighbourhood. He was generally respected, being a remarkably quiet and inoffensive man.
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6 DECEMBER 1841

MARRIAGE

At Longford, parish of Kilwinning, on the 29th ultimo, by the Rev. Mr Campbell, Kilwinning, John Barr, Esquire, Ardrossan, to Isabella, only daughter of the late Mr McJannet, Longford.
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 DECEMBER 1841

SHIPPING NEWS

The brig DOUGLASTOWN, from Ardrossan for Marseilles, parted her chain on the night of the 29th ultimo, during the gale at Falmouth, and went on shore, but was assisted off, with no damage to hull.
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 DECEMBER 1844

CABIN BOY DROWNED

On Monday night last, a cabin boy, on board the steam-ship Glow Worm, named BRUCE HARKNESS, and about 15 years of age, fell from the vessel while she was lying at the west end of the Broomielaw, and was drowned.

No person having observed the occurrence of the accident, it is supposed that the youth fell from the gangway port, which had been left open for the purpose of allowing those connected with the vessel to go on board.

As soon as he was missed, however, search was made for him, and the lifeless body taken on board, where it lay until the arrival of the father, who removed the remains to Ardrossan, his native place.
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 DECEMBER 1895

THE STORM

Ardrossan:
The storm was very severely felt here. A number of vessels were unable to call, and had to proceed up the firth to Greenock.
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GLASGOW HERALD
7 DECEMBER 1863

VESSEL SUNK

The ELIZA BOWER, John Hayes, master, from Ardrossan for Nantes, with a cargo of pig iron, after encountering severe weather in the Channel put into Belfast, where the cargo had to be discharged and the vessel undergo extensive repairs.

Again proceeding to sea, and when off St. John’s Point, on the Irish coast, she sprang a leak, on discovering which the captain veered round and stood for Belfast, which he failed to take, and ran for Lamlash.

On Monday afternoon last, while opposite Ailsa Craig, the crew had to take to the boats, as they found their vessel fast sinking. The boats were scarcely clear when she went down within about seven miles of land.

The crew, ten in number, safely effected a landing on the shore, near Culzean Castle, the seat of the Marquis of Ailsa, who most kindly received and lodged them for the night.

Part of the crew arrived in Ayr on Tuesday afternoon. They have lost most of their clothing.
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GLASGOW HERALD
8 DECEMBER 1823

SHIPPING NEWS

Ayr, December 5 – After the severe gale which has been experienced here on Wednesday night last, we think proper to acquaint you, for the information of all concerned, that no accident of any consequence has occurred to the shipping on this district coast, say from Ballantrae to Ardrossan.

A brig is on shore beyond Ardrossan; we cannot learn the particulars.
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GLASGOW HERALD
8 DECEMBER 1845

FATAL ACCIDENT

On Thursday last, while JAMES McGECHIE, ship-carpenter at Messrs Barr & Shearer’s shipbuilding yard, Ardrossan, was on a scaffold at the stern of the vessel called IDA, in the graving dock there, a fellow-workman in the vessel, not knowing, there was any person on the scaffold, commenced lowering the same, when the unfortunate person was cast to the bottom; and from the effects of the fall, together with a deep wound made on his person by chisel he had in his hand at the time, he was taken home very weakly, and died next day.

He belongs to Irvine, and has left a widow and three children.
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