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25 YEARS AGO on June 10, 1983
CASH tills will be ringing in a new £1/2m shopping complex in Saltcoats before the end of the month. The indoor shopping mall, incorporating 24 separate units, is due to open within the next few weeks. It is the brainchild of local businessman, Gio Benedetti, who bought the site in Hamilton Street almost three years ago. He had originally hoped the transform the three houses on the land into three large shops with offices above. But he changed his plans to make use of the substantial area of ground behind the houses. The finished development will include two larger shops, 22 smaller ones, and a number of offices. An enclosed complex has been erected behind the original buildings to house the smaller shops, which have an average size of 200 square feet.


Is that now the ten-pin bowling site ? If so went in with the family, had a great time maybe about 10 years ago :)
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brian f wrote: Wed May 19, 2021 8:18 pm 25 YEARS AGO on June 10, 1983
CASH tills will be ringing in a new £1/2m shopping complex in Saltcoats before the end of the month. The indoor shopping mall, incorporating 24 separate units, is due to open within the next few weeks. It is the brainchild of local businessman, Gio Benedetti, who bought the site in Hamilton Street almost three years ago. He had originally hoped the transform the three houses on the land into three large shops with offices above. But he changed his plans to make use of the substantial area of ground behind the houses. The finished development will include two larger shops, 22 smaller ones, and a number of offices. An enclosed complex has been erected behind the original buildings to house the smaller shops, which have an average size of 200 square feet.


Is that now the ten-pin bowling site ? If so went in with the family, had a great time maybe about 10 years ago :)
I initially thought it was the old indoor market but that was Windmill street.
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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 11, 2008

150 YEARS AGO on June, 1858
ARDROSSAN Magistrates have issued an order that all persons holding keys for the Walks, on the Castle Hill must return them or pay to Mr Mack their charge for the present year. Any person found on these Walks before six in the morning, or half an hour after sunset, will be trespassing.

SOME of the horses which recently went to Arran with a circus were observed landing at Ardrossan.

THE Presbytery of Irvine is to meet to receive names for the vacant Parish Church, Ardrossan.

RIPE strawberries grown by Mr Hunter, Glenhead, West Kilbride, were brought into this of fice. They were the earliest of the season in this district.

MESSRS Merry and Cunningham are erecting a large school room in Stevenston, a few hundred yards from the railway station. The school is for the benefits of families of those employed at Ardeer Iron Works.

100 YEARS AGO on June 12, 1908
SALTCOATS Town Council have authorised the Surveyor to procure disinfectants to be added to the water used in the waterng of the streets.

AT a reception given by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Sir William Bilsland, to bakers and kindred traders, Stevenston, was represented by Councillor Morrison, Mr James Morrison Junior, Miss Morrison, Miss Wilson, Councillor Patrick, Mrs Patrick, Miss Patrick, Mr and Mrs Peter Reid.

AT the general meeting of Ardeer Thistle Football club office-bearers elected were: - President, Mr Robert Harper, vice president, Mr Henry Leckie; secretary, Mr John Bell: treasurer, Mr Alex Wilson.

KILWINNING Bowling Club (Messrs Allan, King, Speir and Smith), won the Silver Bowl last Thursday with a majority of 28 shots over West Kilbride.

IN a race from Preston the birds belonging to members of Ardrossan and Saltcoats Firing Club covered the distance at the following rates - McMurray, 781, 754 yards per minute: white, 743; Craig, 743; McDonald, 737; McFarlane, 736, Logan, 691.

50 YEARS AGO on June 13, 1958
A FIRE broke out about 7 o'clock in the yard of the disused Gasworks on the Crossbrae, when some wooden cases were set alight. Ardrossan Fire Brigade soon had it under control. Unfortunately, the brigade was on its way to Kilwinning when one of the firemen took ill while passing through Stevenston. He was taken to a doctor's surgery, where he was found to be dead.

THE full length of the extended runway at Prestwick Airport, which has been fitted with a new top slab of reinforced concrete, will be available for use on June 19. The work of reinforcement has been completed at the junction with the subsidiary runway and the concrete is being given time to mature. The removal of the last of the obstructions in that sec tor was announced last week by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. Since the remainder of the main runway was brought into use on May 13 there has been an Increase in traffic, the largest number of aircraft movements in one day being 112 on May 16. Owing to the introduction of third class fares on all North Atlantic traffic routes, airline traffic is likely to increase rapidly in the next month.

DETECTIVE Sergeant George W Ferguson of South Shields Police, has been promoted to detective inspector. He takes charge of the Criminal Investigation Department following the promotion recently of Detective Chief Inspector S Welbury to Deputy Chief Constable. Det-Insp Ferguson, who is 41, lives with his wife and family in South Shields. He joined the force in July 1937, and served with the East Reading Yeomanry during the war. In 1945 he was transferred from the uniformed branch to the CID. He has been commended on four occasions. He has acted as chairman of the Police Recreation Committee for several years, and formerly played in the police football team. Mr Ferguson is a native of Ardrossan, and was educated at Ardrossan Academy. His mother resides at 2 McKellar Avenue

AT a Highland dancing competition held in Greenock on May 10, the following local children were successful - Isobel Thomson, 1st, Reel of Tulloch, 2nd, Sword Dance; Ann Watt, 1st Highland Fling: Avril Ritchie, 2nd Sword Dance; Catherine Poland, 2nd Highland Fling. They are all pupils of Miss Rose Galloway, MHDSA, Kersland School of Dancing, Kilbirnie.

25 YEARS AGO on June 17, 1983
A STEVENSTON primary school's outing ended in disaster when their bus was involved in an accident in Beith on Tuesday morning. Fifty-two pupils, three teachers and an auxiliary from Hayocks Primary were heading for Holryood House and Meadowbank in Edinburgh as part of a special treat when their bus was involved in a collision with a lorry at the New Road junction, Beith. Lorry driver, Michael Balvage (19), of 3 Raeburn Walk, Bellshill, was rushed to the Royal Infirmary in Paisley with internal injuries and a broken leg. The children, some injured, were taken to the home of Miss C Good, at 2 Larch Terrace Beith, to be looked after. Coach driver, Thomas Black, of 11 Brown Place, Saltcoats, was taken to North Ayrshire District General Hospital to have a broken wrist and minor cuts treated.

All three teachers and 18 of the children were hurt in the crash. Miss Agnes Robb suffered a cracked knee and Miss Mary Hutchison was cut and bruised when they were both thrown down the bus stairs on impact.
Assistant head teacher, Joseph McMaster, injured his neck and back when he was thrown under the driver's seat and auxiliary, Mrs Thomasina Phillips was bruised. All the children were taken to North Ayrshire District General Hospital for check-ups when a replacement coach arrived. None were found to have serious injuries. The three teachers were back at work on Wednesday, but Mrs Phillips and a few children stayed at home.

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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 18, 2008

100 YEARS AGO on June ??, 1908
MESSERS James Braid, Walton Heath, and J.H. Taylor, Richmond, the well-known professional golfers, paid a visit to Ardeer golf course on Tuesday and gave expert opinion on the merits of the course, which they considered needlessly easy.

IN the Brisbane Bursary Examination the successful candidates were Elizabeth Chalmers, Anderson Wilson and Tom Black, all of Saltcoats Public School. The College Bursary was won by Miss M. Wilson, a pupil teacher.

STEVENSTON School Board are indebted to James Coats, jun., of Ferguslie, Paisley, for two handsome bookcases which he has generously presented to their Stevenston and Kyleshill Schools. In both cases a large number of exquisite volumes accompanied the bookcases.

A junior competition under the auspices of Kilbirnie Angling Club took place on Saturday on the Garnock the prize winners being: -1, R. Hynd; 2. J. F. Morrison; 3. Jas. Gaffney: 4, R. Lauchland; 5, G. Tod, jun.; 6. Thos. Turner.

IN a bowling match between Ardrossan and Saltcoats, Ardrossan (J. P. Wallace, T. Guthrie, W. Tannoch) beat Saltcoats (J. Hamilton, jun., A. McIntyre, J. Morris and A. Wilson, D. Miller, J. Breckenridge) by 16 shots.

AT the annual meeting of Ladeside Football Club in Kilbirnie last Friday, office-bearers appointed were: - President, Mr Malcolm Reid; vice-president, Mr Daniel Cochrane: secretary, Mr John Whitelaw, treasurer, Mr Andrew Boyd.

50 YEARS AGO on June 20, 1958
MR Fred West, A native of Ardrossan and a member of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed manager of the River's Realty, Ltd., branch office at Vancouver. The write-up, which includes his photograph, states that Fred has had many years experience of property sales.

TOMORROW (Saturday) six Sunday School trips will arrive at South Beach Green, Ardrossan, and the number of persons will be approximately 2510.

MR Howat (goods agent), Mr Whitelaw (chief clerk), and Mr Livingstone (cashier) were each presented with a gold wrist watch by British Railways on completion of 45 years' service. All are employed at the Ardrossan depot.

ON Thursday of last week a 4 feet motor boat was stolen from Largs and found ashore between Saltcoats and Stevenston. Two Glasgow boys, aged 10 and 12, who were reported missing, have been interviewed by the police.

ABOUT 10.50am on Monday, a motor lorry loaded with butcher-meat, weighing two tons 16 cwt., was stationary in Winton Pier Road, Ardrossan, when a train, reversing from no.2 platform, collided with the lorry and pushed it on to the rails where it overturned. The butcher-meat fell on to the railway and the lorry was extensively damaged. No person was injured. As a result of the accident the road and railway were closed to traffic for approximately three-quarters of an hour.

CAPTAIN Jack Bright, whose ship the Eagle oil tanker, 'San Flaviano,' was bombed in the Indonesian port of Balik Pagan on 28th April, has arrived at his home in Oak Road, Ardrossan. The genial captain is looking none the worse of his thrilling experience. At the time two tankers were bombed and the 'San Flaviano' was set ablaze, becoming a total loss.

Captain Bright expressed the view that the bombers must have known that his ship was a British ship, for he added. We were flying the British Ensign-a nine footer." The Captain paid generous tribute to his allBritish crew, who, when he was reluctantly compelied to give the order to abandon ship, displayed all those characteristics that have made British seamen honoured and respected all over the world.

LAST Saturday marked another chapter in the history of Park Church, Ardrossan, when the foundation stone of the new church buildings, now in course of erection at the junction of Dalry Road and Stanley Road in the new housing area, was formally laid, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Dr John Mauchline, principal of Trinity College, Glasgow

25 YEARS AGO on June 24, 1983
A young holidaymaker died tragically when her airbed was swept far from the Saltcoats shore on Tuesday...and the man who plucked her from the sea has called for an immediate inquiry into her death.
Beverly Dolan (14), of 23 Kendoon Avenue, Drumchapel, Glasgow, died after frantic attempts to revive her failed. Despite the efforts of a Saltcoats man, lifeboat, helicopter and ambulance crews, a medical assistant and police, she never fully regained consciousness.

Beverly had been on holiday with her grandmother at Sandylands Caravan Park, Saltcoats, when she and her brother Richard (15) decided to paddle around on "lilos. At 3.17pm Coastguards alerted Troon lifeboat and a helicopter from HMS Gannet, Prestwick, that Richard and Beverly were missing. But by that time two Saltcoats men and another man who had run barefoot from Stevenson to raise the alarm, were on their way out to where the teenagers had last been seen.

A businessman is gambling that rumours of an oil strike off the Ayrshire coast are true. Mr John Lynch has bought a Saltcoats Hotel to take advantage of the rich pickings he believes are just around the corner.
He has just bought the former Maple Leaf Hotel in Saltcoats Canal Street, re-naming it Hotel Sands and with an eye on the 'black gold,' he is ready to transform it into a luxury entertainment complex, complete with an extension, offering 50 bedrooms at a well-equipped four star level. I'm not dead certain about the oil, but my bank (Lloyds) feels the same about the area - and they also deal with Britoil. So far Britoil is the only company to declare any interest in oil fields in the Clyde.

It looked like a freak snow storm had hit Ardrossan during this week's heatwave. The bottom end of Glasgow Street was looking distinctly white on Monday evening. It was not snow, however, but white sand which spilled from a W.H. Malcolm lorry which was forced to brake suddenly. The lorry was on its way from the harbour carrying a load of 18 tons of powdered white sand. It was 300 kilos lighter after its emergency stop

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25 YEARS AGO on June 24, 1983
A young holidaymaker died tragically when her airbed was swept far from the Saltcoats shore on Tuesday...and the man who plucked her from the sea has called for an immediate inquiry into her death.
Beverly Dolan (14), of 23 Kendoon Avenue, Drumchapel, Glasgow, died after frantic attempts to revive her failed. Despite the efforts of a Saltcoats man, lifeboat, helicopter and ambulance crews, a medical assistant and police, she never fully regained consciousness.

Beverly had been on holiday with her grandmother at Sandylands Caravan Park, Saltcoats, when she and her brother Richard (15) decided to paddle around on "lilos. At 3.17pm Coastguards alerted Troon lifeboat and a helicopter from HMS Gannet, Prestwick, that Richard and Beverly were missing. But by that time two Saltcoats men and another man who had run barefoot from Stevenson to raise the alarm, were on their way out to where the teenagers had last been seen.

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A terrible tragedy. These airbeds are so dangerous especially for day trippers who dont know the area. I had trouble keeping my kids out of the sea in dangerous conditions using these but mostly in Devon and North Yorkshire.

Did the Threetowns have lifeguards on patrol in the old days, cant remember but with the Glasgow fair and the notorious Whirlpool... surely yes?
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Brian I have no recollection of there ever being a lifeguard in the three towns. Other then the whirlpool you refer to, which in those days was marked by a warning sign, the beaches were considered to be safe beaches. The beach has a very slow graduation from shallow to deep water so the beach is relatively safe. At one time there was a first aid post which dealt with injuries on the beach.
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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on June 25, 2008

150 YEARS AGO on June ??, 1858
MR WORKMAN, a native of West Kilbride, at 66 years of age, is serving his last year in the army. He was two years a volunteer, eight years a militia man, and 28 years as a Yeoman, and has been for many years a special constable in his native parish. He has served in four sovereigns' reigns-George N, William IV and Victoria.

CAPTAIN Steel of Ardrossan purchased the barque, The Duke, of 600 tons barque, The Duke, of 600 tons burden,

THE erection of the new foundry at the Ardrossan Harbour has commenced, and it is expected to bring more work into the town.

SALTCOATS Archery Club members met for the purpose of shooting for an Indian Bow presented to the club by Patrick Croker Esq. After two hours shooting at the butts the winner was Mr James Anderson.

WEAVING is the main trade in Saltcoats, but by the middle of the month trade slackened off. The silk department had a good run but it has fallen off.

100 YEARS AGO on June 26, 1908
THE medallists at local schools which closed for the holidays were: -Eglinton School - Alex Mackay: Winton School - Mary A Jamieson and Catherine J Henderson; Saltcoats Public School -Thomas Black and Bessie Chalmers.

MEMBERSHIP of Saltcoats Bathing Club is increasing; over 100 season tickets having been sold - 70 men's, 30 juniors and 10 ladies'.

THE Rev Samuel McCune, minister of Stevenston Free Church has accepted a call to an Oban Church, and on Saturday last he was presented with a purse of sovereigns from the Stevenston congregation. Messrs Young, McLeod and Carey. office-bearers paying tribute to his powers as a preacher.

MR Hugh Thomson, chairman of Stevenston Parish Council, and Mr James Morrison. Parish Councillor, have been added to the directorate of Stevenston Gas Company.

AYRSHIRE Junior Football Cup has been won by Vale of Garnock Strollers, the team being John White, Joe Lindsay, Hughie Roy, Jimmie Sharp, Joe Lush, Jimmie Dickie, Willie Kay, Willie Blackett, Willie McDonald, Tam McDonald and Charlie Wilson.

THE formal opening of the new golf course at Bigholm Hills at Belth took place last Saturday, the winners of the various competitions being R Ritchie, Miss Williamson, John Ritchie, JM Foster, Hugh Melville, M Gilmour.

50 YEARS AGO on June 27, 1958
TOMORROW is Saltcoats schoolgirl Margaret Irvine's 15th birthday. But for Margaret the day of the year was last Saturday, the day when she was crowned Queen of the Sea. Chosen this year from Saltcoats JS School, the Queen and her retinue were the central figures in the town's day of pageantry, perhaps a rather unique occasion because of the fact that it did not rain, apart from a few spots in the evening.

A REPORT by the Chief Constable of Ayrshire states that the number of crimes and offences committed in the County during the first quarter of 1958 was 1,570 and the number of persons apprehended or cited was 999 - an increase of 17 and an increase of 180 respectively compared with the same period last year.

WORK has commenced on the levelling of the ground in the area of the Woodwynd railway bridge. it is due to be demolished and a new road stretching from Baird Avenue over the existing old Woodwynd Road to Dalry Road

FIFTEEN-year-old Margaret Lamb, 11 Bell Crescent, a Third Year pupil in St Michael's College, has been chosen as this year's Marymass Queen. Only one of the four Marys has so far been selected. She is Margaret Duffy, 62 East Road, also in the Third Year at St Michael's.

MR AIREY Neave, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, flew to Prestwick no Monday with Mr John Rankin MP for Govan, to visit the site of the proposed new terminal building.

THE car park at Bridgend, Kilwinning, has been extended. Work has been proceeding during the past few days.

25 YEARS AGO on July 1, 1983
A BEITH factory which was on the brink of closing has completed a 250,000 investment programme.
Rega Metals (Scotland, almost closed because the company did not get paid for major orders it carried out. Mr Michael Osborn, managing director of parent company Rega Metals, revealed this last week when he visited Beith for an official opening. The company would have gone bust because of contractors going out of business."
But after overcoming the difficulty of not receiving payment for the two projects in Glasgow Rega continued investing in Willowyard Industrial Estate. "Since we have been here 80 per cent of the company's investment has come to Beith," added Mr Osborn. The investment in new equipment will allow the Beith factory to produce a range of fittings and ducting for both commercial and domestic uses more efficiently.

MOORPARK House in Kilbirnie is to be sold by Strathclyde Region for a nominal sum of £1. The sale to Cunninghame District Council will permit the house to be renovated under the youth training scheme and the community employment programme. In a report given to district councillors this week it was predicted that Strathclyde would allow the deal to be completed quickly.
Already CDC have applied to the Scottish Development Department for various grants to cover vital repairs and refurbishment of the building. According to a spokesman at the Scottish Office in Edinburgh the department are seeking further Information from the district council. Any grants would be awarded by the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland. Taking all grants into account the district council will be left with a bill for about £45,000. Total cost is almost £500,000

AN ARDROSSAN man who has been in the army for 18 years was recently presented with his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Sergeant Ferris Walker was given the medal by General Sir John Stamier, GCB, MBE, ADC, Chief of the General Staff. The ceremony was held in Sennelager, West Germany, where Sergeant Walker is currently serving with the Royal Soots Dragoon Guards. He has seen service in Canada, Libya, Cyprus, Denmark, Berlin and Northern Ireland during his years with the army. Sergeant Walker's mother, Mrs Mary Nesbit, still lives in Ardrossan.

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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on July 2, 2008

50 YEARS AGO on July 4, 1958
A FIVE-year-old boy, Bernard Doyle, 17 Kirkhall Drive, Ardrossan, was removed to Kilmarnock Infirmary suffering from facial abrasions after being knocked down by a car in Parkhouse Road, Ardrossan about 4.30pm last Saturday. Another road accident took place in Parkhouse Road on Monday when a car was involved in a collision with a bus. The car was slightly damaged. No one was injured.

A SOCIAL in Ardeer Recreation Club last Friday marked the end of over 45 years' of service to ICI Nobel Division by Mr TC Hamilton, deputy labour officer at Ardeer. Mr IK Colburn, Ardeer Labour Officer, presided. TC, he said, was a man who knew the factory and the people. He had made his mark in Ardeer factory and all would miss him in the department. Mr Andrew Dickson, foreman in the Labour Department, said that his time with Mr Hamilton had been most enjoyable, and he wished him and Mrs Hamilton all the best in future years. The departmental gift of a writing bureau was presented by Mr Tom Carey, who told the company he had been at school with Mr Hamilton.

Mr TOM Duncan, 6 Stanley Avenue, Ardrossan, who last month graduated MA at Glasgow with 2nd Class Honours in English and won the Bradley Medal, has been awarded the Ewing Fellowship for two years' further study at Oxford.

BELIEVE it or notl About 20 dogs were taken by their owners to a cinema on Tuesday to see a film about a dog. The performance was in connection with the screening of the Walt Disney film, Old Yeller, the story of a backwoods boy and his pat. The dogs were well behaved and occasionally barked in answer to the film noises. Dog biscuits were served at the interval.

THE Prime Minister has rejected an appeal by the Burns Federation to reverse the decision not to issue a special stamp commemorating the bl-centenary of the Birth of Robert Burns. Instead, the Postmaster General, Mr Ernest Marples, is to consider a special franking of letters for the occasion.

MR William Bannatyne, who recently retired from the post of fleshing manager with the Ardrossan Co-operative Society, first entered the employment of the Society in 1912. But it was before then that he took an active interest in the butchers trade. For as a schoolboy he worked mornings and evenings with Messrs John Crawford, Saltcoats. Later he was employed by Messrs Alex McLaughlan, Saltcoats, before going to the Co-operative. During the First World War, Mr Bannatyne served for two and a half years in France, Belgium and Germany. Shortly after his return to civilian life, he rejoined Ardrossan Co-operative Society, being employed by the fleshing branch at Saltcoats. Later, however, he came back to the Ardrossan shop, and in 1948 was appointed fleshing manager.

THE Tennant Cup for swimming was won last Friday at Saltcoats Bathing Pool by Ardrossan Academy and the Morton Shield was won by the Primary Department of Saltcoats JS School.

AT a recent meeting of the Laighdykes Playing Fields Joint Committee, it was noted with concern that notwithstanding the erection of a chain link fence along Jack's Road and part of the High Road, trespass was still continuing to the detriment of the football pitches. It was resolved to make an appeal to the public to refrain from using the playing fields as a shortcut and to preserve this public property for the purpose for which it was required.

25 YEARS AGO on July 8, 1983
FORMER Miss Ardrossan, Janine Tortolano, has married Rangers star lan Redford. The couple were married recently at St Gilbert's Church in Pollokshields, and now live in Glasgow. Janine (22), of 4 Winton Street, Saltcoats, was Miss Ardrossan in 1978. Her parents own the Melboume Cafe in Saltcoats. Her marriage is not her first connection with the "old firm of football. She was a pupil at St Andrew's Academy when Celtic stars Roy Aitken and Mark Reid also attended. Ian Redford (23) joined Rangers three years ago for a transfer fee of £210,000. A Scottish under-21 internationalist, he previously played for Dundee.

A VALUABLE long-standing customer of Ardrossan Harbour is shunning the port in favour of Dundee and Montrose. Ardrossan has lost out on regular consignments of wood pulp bound for ICI at Stevenston after lengthy delays in unloading. The loss of the monthly shipments of pulp from Scandinavia came after it took dockers more than three days to unload the German registered "Padberg of 600 tonnes. And this on top of delays in discharging the previous cargo earlier this year compelled the importers to change the port of entry. Following the earlier hold-up the British agents for the wood pulp suppliers complained to the local shipping agents, General Freight But despite a warning in a letter from General Freight's manager, Alastair Fleming, that the harbour could lose the business the second cargo this year was delayed.

STEVENSTON'S Ardeer Thistle has disassociated itself from its social club after a cash row. Football club members took the decision after an extraordinary general meeting of the social club last Thursday. They had earlier failed in a bid to oust the social club secretary, Mr John McBlain. Football club chairman, Mr lan Johnston said he was unhappy with the way social club's finances were being run. He claims the club is in debt-but when he asked to see the books at last Thursday's meeting he was told they were not available.

About 20 people attended the meeting but few supported Mr Johnston's motion that the club secretary be asked for his resignation. Before the vote Mr Johnston had resigned as social club chairman. The meeting also rejected Mr Johnston's request that a local businessman be allowed to take over the club to refurbish It.
Immediately after the meeting Mr Johnston and three football club members agreed they no longer wanted to be associated with the social club. The decision will make it financially more difficult for the football club. Mr Johnston said: "The football club will suffer most from this move."

ARDNEIL Pipe Band member Alec Bingham will be travelling south soon to judge how well Sassenachs play the pipes. He will attend the Nottinghamshire Pipe Band Championships at Beaston to judge the drum-major section. Two judges from Scotland and one from London will attend the event.

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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on July 9, 2008

100 YEARS AGO on July 10, 1908
A Saltcoats man, found guilty of loitering for the purpose of book-making or betting, was fined £5 at Ardrossan Court yesterday. This is the first betting case in Ardrossan in which a conviction has been recorded.

HON. Thos. Cochrane, MP, has agreed to become an honorary member of Ardrossan Winton Rovers Football Club.

MR John Crawford, butcher, Saltcoats, who is 80 years of age, has removed his business premises from Bradshaw Street to a more prominent site in Dockhead Street. This family business was begun 140 years ago.

SPECIAL services were held last Sunday in Ardeer United Free Church to commemorate the semi-jubilee of the congregation.

ST. John's R.C.parishioners, Stevenston, had an excursion to Largs last Saturday, 400 being in the party. Winners of children's sports were:- Boys - S.Brannon, A. Nicol, P. Grumley, L. McLaughlin, P. Brogan, P. Murphy. Girls - M. Murphy, McKerracher, A. Cambridge, Mary Kelly, Maggie Kelly, A. McCann and M. McLaughlin.

TWO drowning accidents occurred at the weekend - a young Paisley man spending the day at Saltcoats lost his life while bathing at the shore, and a 19-year-old Ardrossan lad was drowned while bathing at South Beach.

50 YEARS AGO on July 11, 1958
A feature of the skyline at Hunterston, where one of the world's first atomic generating stations is now being built, is the giant Goliath crane, work on the assembly of which has been going on for five and a half months and has now been completed. The crane - the biggest in Britain - is over 200 feet high and can lift 350 tons. Scottish and English Pressmen who were shown over the Hunterston site on Wednesday of last week were generally impressed with the progress that has already been made in connection with the construction of this £37 million station which will have an output capacity of 300,000 kw.

AN explosion at the Hunterston Nuclear power Station site on Wednesday aftemoon caused injuries to two men - James Taggart (42), 32 Gateside Street, Largs, and Alex Cathcart (44), 59 Innes Park Road, Skelmorie. Both were taken to Kilmamock Infirmary and underwent operations. Mr Taggart's condition was later reported to be the more serious of the two. The explosion occurred on the foreshore which adjoins the site while waste material, it is understood, was being burned.

THE sun shone in all its glory for the visit to Largs on Monday of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, and gay and colourful scenes were witnessed. In all respects it was a memorable occasion.

A MIDDLE-AGED Greenock man, Godfrey Kane, 26, Fintry Road, had to be given artificial respiration at Saltcoats Bathing pool last Saturday after he had taken ill in the water. He was seen to go below the surface and spectators informed the bathmaster, Mr Robert Hamilton Mr Douglas Scott, 91 Canal Street, Saltcoats, who was swimming in the pool at the time brought Kane to the edge. Mr Hamilton applied artificial respiration and after some time the man recovered.

STEVENSTON Town Council are to discuss at their next meeting, in September, a motion by Provost Forde asking British Railways to close the town station and to re-open Moorpark Station (the old Caledonian Railway Station). The closure, if agreed to, would mean the removal of the level crossing in Station Road to allow traffic a free passage to the south end of the town. At the Council meeting on Monday evening, the Provost gave notice of the motion which was in the following terms: "That in view of the increasing road traffic and the effect the railway crossing gates have, we agree to make representation to British Railways to close Stevenston Town Station and re-open Moorpark Station as the main passenger station in the burgh."

A REPORT by the Assistant Director of Education regarding Television in Schools during session 1957-58 was submitted at Tuesday's meeting of the Education Committee of Ayr County Council. The report stated that in accordance with the decision of the Education Committee on the 10th September, 1957, television receivers were installed in the undermentioned schools on the dates shown: Prestwick High School, October 9, 1957: St. Margaret's R.C. Junior Secondary School, October 14, 1957: Ayr Grammar Junior Secondary School, October 15, 1957 and Stevenston Junior Secondary School, October 17, 1957

25 YEARS AGO on July 15, 1983
A FARMER has been accused of treating holiday-job youngsters as slave labour. It's claimed that several youngsters worked for hours last week picking potatoes at Kirklands Farm, Ardrossan, only to be told that a paltry £2 was the payment for a day's toil. The mother-of-one 14 year old, Elizabeth Sinclair, of 15 Lairdweir, said: "I thought slavery was abolished. The boys worked from 7am to 10am before the farmer said they were only getting £2 for the day. They thought maybe they would get £5 a day - which is still not a lot of money for the hours they put in.

"The farmer should have told them they were only getting £2 for the day before they started." The boys walked off after being told how much they would be paid. They returned later in the day to be paid for the three hours they had worked but the farmer simply told them to go away, Mrs Sinclair added. The farmer at Kirklands, Malcolm Logan, denied treating his workforce like slaves and insisted: "If they're not pleased they don't have to work here!"

AMBITIOUS plans to set up a benefits advice centre in Saltcoats for the unemployed have hit a major stumbling block. Strathclyde Regional Council has refused to give the project an urban ald grant. It claims the centre would duplicate services which already exist or are planned for the area. The Saltcoats, Ardrossan, Stevenston Unemployed Workers Group had asked for an initial grant of £27,000 for the centre and £18,500 a year for the following two years. That would have allowed it to rent premises in Saltcoats, furnish and equip them and employ a full-time co-ordinator and secretary.

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From the Archives of the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald published on July 16, 2008

100 YEARS AGO on July 17, 1908
THE "Empress Queen," sailing from Ardrossan to Douglas, L.O.M. this week-end, is believed to be the largest paddle-steamer in the world. Seven vessels leave Ardrossan today for Belfast.

SALTCOATS Swimming Club held points races at the swimming pond last Saturday: winners being Hugh Hunter, R. Calder, J. Cherry, Alf. Bryan, D. Young, Geo. Kerr, Oswald Ashworth, W. Mathieson, P. Greig, J. Brown and D. Christie.

THE number of gas consumers in Saltcoats within the last five years has increased from 2205 to 2353 and the number of public lamps has gone up from 211 to 225

SALTCOATS Town Council agreed to erect notices at Saltcoats Bathing Pond stating that smokers must not spit into the pond, and notices prohibiting spitting on pavements are being attached to lamp posts locally

A new steamer, the "Ben-my-Chree," sails from Ardrossen to Isle of Man today. She has a speed of almost 27 knots and carries 2500 passengers.

Mr James Morrison, Stevenston, has been appointed one of the judges at a forthcoming Bakers' and Confectioners' Exhibition, London,

KILWINNING Bowling Club (R. Service, J. Craig, J. Clark, J. Muir, W. Robertson, A. D. Cross) defeated Saltcoats (G. Armour, J. Hamilton, D. M. Miller, E. Dornan, A. McIntyre, J. J. Norris) by 13 shots, on Monday:


50 YEARS AGO on July 18, 1958
PASSENGERS on the 8.05 Irish-boat train from Glasgow to Ardrossan had an alarming experience yesterday morning when the engine of the train crashed into the buffers at Montgomerie Pier Station and came to rest at an angle of about 20 degrees against a pile of rubble. A British Railways spokesman said later that about 60 passengers on the train were slightly injured and two of five more seriously injured were taken by ambulance to Kilmarnock Infirmary for a check-up.

A FIFTY-eight-year-old Androssan woman was fatally injured when she was knocked down by a car on the road outside her home on Tuesday. The accident occurred about 12.45pm on the Ardrossan Seamill road as the lady, it is believed, was going across the road to catch a bus for West Kilbride, where she intended to play golf that afternoon. The car which struck her was travelling towards Ardrossan. This was the second fatal accident on this stretch of road in little over three weeks.

ON Tuesday of next week. 500 members of the First Ward Labour Party, Coatbridge, have an outing to South Beach Green, Ardrossan.

APPROXIMATELY nine months after the construction of Scotland's first nuclear power station was started at Hunterston, near West Kilbride, work is proceeding according to schedule, and some of it, notably the excavation for the foundations of the second reactor, is a few months ahead of programme. At the same time, the giant Goliath crane which will be used for lifting the main steel structures into position is almost ready for its commissioning trials. The erection of this crane has taken only fiveand-ahalf months, a considerable engineering achievement on a project in which progress is so greatly influenced by weather conditions.

25 YEARS AGO on July 22, 1983
SUNDAY striptease shows are a big turn-off for members of a neighbouring church. Together with their minister they have complained to Kilwinning Community Council in a bid to have the shows scrapped. Strippers were recently introduced on Sunday afternoons at Flicks Disco in Kilwinning to boost flagging custom. But, according to the Rev Bryan Baxter, of Kilwinning Free Church, they are indecent. And the fact that the girls bare their all on the Sabbath only makes matters worse.

THE father of a Saltcoats teenager who died after being hit by a police car is pressing for a fatal accident inquiry to be held. The nineteen-year-old died instantly when the car, containing two local CID officers, struck him on Saltcoats High Road at 2am on Sunday, And
this week his father claimed too many questions remained unanswered.

A threat to cut down the number of operations at Lamlash Hospital on Arran has been withdrawn - at least temporarily. After a meeting on the island last week, Ayrshire and Arran Health Board agreed to maintain the present level. But the amount of surgery being withdrawn at the hospital came as a shock to health board chiefs. They had believed only accident and emergency cases were being treated at the hospital, with a small number of minor operations.

AN Ardrossan man decided to visit his cousin in Kilwinning shortly after the New Year and went promptly into the house and fell asleep. Unfortunately for man the house he was in, in Blacklands Avenue, was not his cousin's house. And the householders were more than a little "surprised when they saw him lying asleep near their own sleeping baby. The court heard that when the accused was roused there was quite a bit of confusion as he thought he was "somewhere else" and he admitted that he had shouted and swore.

SHOPKEEPERS in Kilwinning Main Street are losing out to pedestrianisation. Takings are down in many shops and at least one shop owner says he is on the verge of closing. Blame for the decline in business is put quite firmly on the disruption in the narrow street caused by work on the walkway scheme. Already a meeting of shopkeepers has taken place with the scheme's backers, Cunninghame District Council and Irvine Development Corporation, and the contractors. According to Kilwinning councillor Graham Ritchie, the council is looking at the points raised by the shopkeepers and will report back to them in August.

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I remember the Sunday strippers at Flicks, never ever went though :roll:
Those wimin were in the nip.
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bonzo wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:41 pm I remember the Sunday strippers at Flicks, never ever went though :roll:
Are you sure you weren’t there - someone’s BOUND to have the photos - oh no wait - no mobiles = no evidence :lol:
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