Towns > Greenock > 1847-1912 - Post-office Greenock directory > 1895-1896

APPENDIX. 77
addresses— 46 Miller Street, 43 Virginia Street, 62 and 90 Argyle
Street.
Gourock, Greenock, and Glasgow (Goods and Parcels)— James
Mains and John Taylor, both daily.
Inverkip, by Road (Goods and Parcels)— Robert M'Farlane,.
Tuesdays and Fridays, and oftener during the summer.
Port-Glasgow, by Road— William Macrae and N. M. Campbell
arrive and depart daily.
STEAMERS CALLING AT GREENOCK.
(Weather and other circumstances permitting.)
Aberdeen and Dundee— Princess Irene, or other steamer, twice,
monthly- -M. Langlands & Sons.
Antwerp— Steamer sails every Monday from Glasgow, calling at
Greenock, as trade requires— Allan Swan, Customhouse Buildings,
agent.
Ardrishaig and Lochfyne— Royal Mail Steamer Columba, Grenadier,
or other steamer, with passengers only, daily (Sunday excepted) about
8.50 a.m., from Customhouse Quay, calling at Princes Pier, Gourock,
Kirn, Dunoon, Innellan, Rothesay, Colintraive, Tighnabruaich, Tarbert,
and Ardrishaig. Returning from Ardrishaig about I p.m. Royal Mail
Steamer Iona during Summer Season from Customhouse Quay about
3.15 p.m., and Brigadier or other steamer, with goods and pass-
engers, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from Customhouse
Quay, touching at same piers and others, and returning from Inveraray
every Thursday and Saturday, Ardrishaig every Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday— W. Lindsay & Co., agents.
Ardrishaig, Crinan Canal, Sound of Mull, Strontian (Loch Sunart),
Ballachulish Slate Quarries, and places in the North, as may be
arranged— S.S. Handa, or other steamer, every Monday, about 6 p.m.,
from Customhouse Quay— Wm. Lindsay & Co., agents.
Arran (Brodick and Lamlash), calling at Gourock and other piers
on the Firth — Daily during summer season from Princes Pier, saloon
steamer Ivanhoe, via Kyles of Bute ; and from Customhouse Quay
and Princes Pier, s.s. Isle of Arran, via Kilchattan Bay. Goods only
s.s. Bute every Tuesday.
Arran, North End (see Campbeltown).
Arrochar (see Lochlong).
Ayr and Girvan— Goods steamer Loch Etive every Monday and
Thursday at 6 p.m. from West Quay— Hugh Lamont, agent.
Ballina— Elm, Fern, or other steamer of Laird Line, every alternate
Friday, from Customhouse Quay, about 4 p.m.— Alex. A. Laird & Co.
Belfast— Daily (Sunday excepted) from Princes Pier at 9.45 p.m.
Royal Mail Steam Packets Alligator, Dromedary, Gorilla, or other
steamer, with mails and passengers. Cargo steamer daily from East
India Wharf about 8 p.m.— Wm". Sinclair, Excise Buildings, agent.
Belfast— See also Bristol and Plymouth.
Birkenhead — See Liverpool.
Boston— Allan Line Steamers from Tail of the Bank regularly—
Andrew Picken & Co., agents.
Bristol— Swansea, Cardiff and Newport {via Belfast) with goods and
passengers from Princes Pier not before 6 p.m. The s.s. Tweed,