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GOUROCK DIRECTORY — APPENDIX. 1 69
APPENDIX.
GOUROCK POST OFFICE— 10 Kempock Street.
Mrs Bethia Wilkie, Postmistress.
The Office is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.. and on Sundays from
9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Delivery of letters is made on week days at 7 a.m., 3.30, and 6.30
p.m., and on Sundays (to callers) from 9 to 10 a.m.
Pillar and Wall Boxes.
Hours of Collection.
Week Days. Sundays.
Ashton, 10 a.m. ; 4, 7 p.m. Nil
Barrhill, 9 a.m. ; 4, 7 p.m. Nil
Hillside, 10 a.m. ; 4, 7 p.m. 8.40 a.m.
Railway Station, 6 a.m. ; 9.30 a.m. ; 2, 6 p.m. Nil
Shore Street, T.S.O., 6, 10.45 a - m - 5 3' 5- 2 °> 6 -4°> 8 P- m - 9«° a - m -
Gourock was erected into a Burgh of Barony on 12th March, 1694.
The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1850, was
adopted in part on 10th April, 1858.
The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, was
adopted in part on 20th September, 1877 ; and in whole on 28th
January, 1885.
The Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892, came into operation on
15th May, 1893.
The Commissioners acquired the gas works in the Burgh 15th May,
1886, and the tramways within the Burgh 1st February, 1894.
THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BURGH.
The whole area comprehended within the boundary line, commencing
at or near Mileburn in the Burgh of Gourock, at the point marked A on
the Plan prepared in duplicate by John Garvie, Surveyor in Gourock ;
at which point marked A, the march between the estates of Gourock and

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