HAMILTON ADVERTISER, SATURDAY 23RD JULY 1881 FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT A melancholy accident is reported from the Gareloch, by which Mr David Croll, manager, for the Dumbarton Rope Works Company, 114 Broomielaw, and residing at 3 Annfield Terrace, Partick; Mr Croll’s brother William, Miss McIlraith, and a young clergyman, have lost their lives by the upsettingContinue reading “Fatal Boating Accident”
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A New Pier
Dear blog reader and friend I must apologise for being absent for the past couple of months. My Mum died at the end of April and I simply have not felt like blogging up until now. However normal service now resumes in terms of my local history research. I have some interesting news for you.Continue reading “A New Pier”
Shandon Valuation Roll 1905
Dear blog reader Welcome to the sixth part in a series, a list of the people, with house names where known, who were connected with Shandon in 1905. In 1905 Shandon had 82 households listed. A vast increase on the anomaly of the valuation roll of 1895 when only 16 households were listed but alsoContinue reading “Shandon Valuation Roll 1905”
Fireworks from the Gareloch
GREENOCK TELEGRAPH AND CLYDE SHIPPING GAZETTE WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST 1884 FIREWORKS AT SHANDON The expectation of witnessing a display of fireworks designed by Mr Pain, of Crystal Palace fame, and who had entrusted to him lately the illuminations which were a feature of the International Health Exhibition, London, and has presently in charge the pyrotechnicsContinue reading “Fireworks from the Gareloch”
Shandon in January 1886
Dear blog reader, this is the fifth part of a series looking at the news in Shandon in particular weeks in history. In the week leading up to Thursday 28 January 1886 Reverend Millar gave a lecture on Scottish songs, the Mutual Improvement Society heard a lecture on lighthouses and the annual aquatic entertainment andContinue reading “Shandon in January 1886”
Shandon Yacht Fire
The Scotsman 26 July 1930 Yesterday, when two engineers were endeavouring to start the engines of a twin-screw cabin cruiser on the Gareloch near the Glasgow Motor Boat Racing Club’s pier at Shandon, one of the engines mis-fired and an explosion occurred, throwing one of the men into the fore-saloon with great violence. A fireContinue reading “Shandon Yacht Fire”
New Pier at Shandon
Glasgow Herald 6 October 1886 From the time when steamers first began to ply on the Gareloch there was a ferryboat station in connection with them at Shandon, where all of the steamers used to call. For the long period of half a century the Shandon ferry continued under the management of Mr Duncan McKinlay,Continue reading “New Pier at Shandon”
Shandon People and History 