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DIRECTORY
SALTCOATS
AYRSHIRE
MISCELLANEOUS— continued.
Meikle William, gardener, Gran by Cottage,
Egliuton pi
Melion Bridget, poulterer, Vernon st
Miller Agues, seamstress, Hamilton st [pi
Miller Boyd, sanitary inspector, Springvalc
Kitchie Elizabeth Jane, teacher of music &
painting, Egliuton Bt
Roxburgh H. B. clerk, Ardeer, Stevenston
Scott Archibald, saddler, Quay st
Service Wni. jun. session clerk, Hamilton st
Smith Hugh, miller, Stevenston
Stewart Tom, fent dealer, Quay st
Wilson Edward, schoolmaster, Canal st
Wilson James, egg & butter merchant, Ver-
non st
Woodburn & Douglas, stone merchants &
quarry owners, Ardeer, Stevenston
Public Buildings, Offices, &c.
PLACES OF WORSHIP
AND THEIR MINISTERS.
Established Church, Saltcoats— Rev. D.
E. M'Nab
Established Church, Stevenston— Rev.
John Graham
Established (North) Church, Hamilton st
— Rev. Frances Halden
Evangelical Union Church, Hamilton st
— Rev. David Greenhill
Free (Gaelic) Church, Ardrossan rd. Salt-
coats— Rev. D'ouald Gray
Free Church, New st. Stevenston— Rov.
Joseph Forrest, m.A.
Free Church, Kyles hill— Rev. David Scott
United Presbyterian Church, Chapelwell
st. Saltcoats — Rev. George Fairgriove
United Presbyterian Church, Canal st.
Saltcoats — Rev. George Philp
I Roman Catholic Chapel (St. Mary's) Ard-
| drossau rd— Rev. James Mlntosh, priest
| Mission Halls, Manor st. Saltcoats st. &
Ardeer, Stevenston
Albert Hall, Green st
Ardrosson Parochial Board Office, Doukhead
St. Saltcoiits— A udw.B. Armour, inspector;
James Campbell, collector
Assembly Rooms, Ardeer, Stevenston
Baths, Harbour st— William H. Duncan,
proprietor [clerk
Cemetery, Ne.wst. Stevenston— John Dickie,
Cemetery, Saltcoats— Andrew B. Armour,
clerk
County Police Station, Stevenston — James
M'Culloch, officer
County Police Station, Hamilton st— James
Imies, inspector
Free Church Hall, Kyles hill
Gas Works, Saltcoats — James Campbell,
secretary &. treasurer ; James Hendersou,
manager
Gas Works, Stevenston— James Campbell,
secretary & treasurer; Jas. Craig, maugr
Good Templars' Hall, Countess st
Good Templars' Hall, Raise st — Robt. Syme,
hall keeper [ton
< Jood Templars' Hope Lodge, New st. Stevens-
Good Templars' The Sheltering Rock
Lodge, Green st
Home for the Destitute, Canal Bank House,
Saltcoats — Jane Smith, matron ; James
W. Fulton, secretary
Home for the Destitute, Rock Vale House,
Canal st — Mary Glen, matron
Inland Revenue Office (stamps & taxes),
Dockhead st — James Campbell, collector
& sub-distributor of stamps
Justice of Peace Court (sits first Friday in
each month), Saltcoats— James O. Mack,
clerk to the justices; Thomas Kirkhope,
procurator fiscal ; James Cook, depute
clerk of the peace
Mission Coast Home, Saltcoats— Ann Love,
matron ; William Bryden, superintendent
Reading Room & Library, Ardeer, Stevenston
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages for
Saltcoats District of the Parish— Andrew
B. Armour, Windmill st ; for Ardrossan
District of the Parish— James Fullcrton,
Ardrossan; for Stevenston— John Dickie,
Stevenston
Stevenston Parochial Board Office— John
Dickie, Stevenston, inspector of poor;
James Campbell, collector of poor rates
& road money
Stevenston School Board Offices, Fullarton
place, Stoveuston— John Dickie, clerk &
treasurer
Town Buildings, Countess st— John Thom-
son, secretary & treasurer ; John J amie-
son, Keeper [matron
Wallneuk Home, Bradsliaw st— Jane Clark,
Young Men's Christian Association, Green
st— John Armour, secretary
CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY,
ON THE GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN LINE,
ARDKOSSAN & KILWINNING SECTION.
Station, Saltcoats— Andrew Green, station
master
Station, Ardeer, Stevenston — David
Donaldson, station master
CARRIER.
FROM SALTCOATS.
To ARDROSSAN, IRVINE, KILWINNING
& STEVENSTON, Andrew Wilson, daily
STEWARTON, DUNLOP AND NEIGHBOURHOODS.
STEWAPvTON is a parish of 13,626 acres, in the district of
Cunuinghame. The town is 16 miles s. by w. from Glasgow, 8 n.
from Irvine, 5 n. from Kilmarnock, and 3 from Fenwick ; situated
in a rjleasant part of the county, on tbe banks of tho water of
AnnocU, close to a station on the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Kilmar-
nock Joint Railway. The parish, which is about ten miles in length,
and varying from three to lour in breadth, is a rich agricultural
district, highly cultivated and improved, and adorned by several
tastefully laid out seats of the gentry. For centuries Stewarton
remained an inconsiderable and obscure village, and it is only of a
comparatively recent date that, owing to the general extension of
trade and manufactures, it has considerably increased in size.
Three woollen mills are engaged in carding and spinning for the
carpet and bonnet trades. The staple articles of manufacture are
Sootch bonnets and military forage caps, in which branches there
are about twenty employers. Ample banking accommodation is
also afforded the town and neighbourhood by the Clydesdale Bank,
Limited, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Union Bank of Scot-
land, Limited, having each a branch under able and efheient
management. The invention of "portable bee boxes" by a Mr.
Kerr, of this town, has proved of great advantage in the manage-
ment of bees ; these coxes are so constructed as to prevent
" swarming," and to produce a very superior honey and comb ; it
obtains a much higher price in the market than any other kind, and
is known by the narao of " Stewarton honey." District courts are
held on the first Thursday of each month, for the recovery of
small debts, and such business as falls under the jurisdiction
of justices of the peace for the parishes of Stewarton, Dunlop,
and Fenwick. The public reading room, to which is attached
a library and billiard room, &c, is in the Institute Buildings,
and there is also a commodious ha!l admirably adapted
for concerts, &c, with seating for about 600 persons. The
places of worship are Established and Free churches, and for
United Presbyterians and Independents. There is a handsome
Board school, erected under the Scotch Education Act, which
affords accommodation for about sixhundred children. The market
is held on Thursday. Fairs are held on the Thursday before the
first Friday in January, and on Monday next before the first Thurs-
day in May, for horses, cattle, and farm and dairy produce; and on
the Wednesday before the last Thursday in October, for the like
commodities, and for stock and agricultural and dairy utensils, also
for hiring servants. The population of the parish of Stewarton in
1871 was 4,478, and in 1881, 4,309, that for the town being 3,130.
Dunlop is a village, two miles and a half from Stewarton'
romantically seated on the banks of the Glazart, on the main road
leading from Kilmarnock to Paisley; and when seen from a little dis-
tance, through the trees which embosom it, has an agreeable and
retired appearance. The houses being mostly old, and the streets
narrow, it does not improve on a nearer view, though in this
respect it does not suffer by comparison with other places
of similar rank throughout the country. A handsome church,
erected in 1835, is ornamental to the neighbourhood ; its pre-
decessor having suffered from the combined effects of
age and weather. In the churchyard is a small arched chamber
formed under the direction of Lord Viscount Clanaboyes, in 1641,
over the grave of his father, the Rev. Hans Hamilton, who for
forty-one years was minister of the parish; it contains a well
executed monument in marble, justly deserving attention ; a school
house was also built by the same nobleman, in the wall of which is a
stone bearing the above date, and an inscription stating amongst
other particulars that it was erected and endowed by him " in love of
his parish, in King James the Stxt his Raigne"; although in excellent
Xi reservation, it has long ceased to be occupied as an educational
establishment. The village likewise possesses a Board school/which
in architecture might contrast favourably with any in the county.
The parish, to which the village gives name, lies principally in the
bailiery of Cunninghame, and county of Ayr, but on the north it
extends into Renfrewshire. It has long been noted for the excel-
lent quality of its cheese, which hears a high character throughoat
Scotland. Several firms are also engaged in ham curing. About
the close of the seventeenth century, one Barbara Gilmour is said to
have commenced the practice of making cheese from the entire
milk, nothing but skimmed milk having been used in the process in
this district previous to that period; at present all the cheese
similarily made in the western counties receives the apellation of
"Dunlop," a large quantity being made here annually. There is
also a considerable trade in meal carried on by the inhabitants of
the village and surrounding territory. A branch of the Clydesdale
Bank, Limited, is established here. Dunlop House, in this parish,
is one of the handsomest mansions in the county; on tnis estate,
resting on a small knoll, is a stone of large dimensions, called the
" O'Great Stone," supposed to have been emplo3*ed in some ancient
rites of worship. Two fairs for the sale of dairy stock are held, ono
about the middle of May, the other on the 12th of November ; both are
generally well attended. In 1871 the parish of Dunlop, the acreage
of which is 7,179, had a population of 1,160, and in 1881, 1,363.
POST OFFICE, Lainshaw Street, Stewarton, Alex. Gait, Post Master.— Letters arrive from all parts of Scotland, England, and Ire-
land at 8 a.m., from Kilmarnock and the South at 5-40 p.m., and from Glasgow and the North at 6-15 p.m., and are despatched to Glas-
gow at 8-15 a.m., to Kilmarnock, England and Ireland at 3-15 p.m., to Glasgow and the North of Scotland at 5-20 p.m., and to all parts at
7-50 p.m. Letters are despatched on Sundays at 11 a.m. IS" Money Order and Telegraph Office and Savings Banle.
Post Office, Dunlop, James Stevenson, Post Master.— Letters arrive from all parts of Scotland, England and Ireland at 8-50 a.m.,
and arc despatched thereto at 3-30 p.m. iS'Money Order and Telegraph Office and Savings Bank.
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