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Glengarnock Gleanings (April 1920) | Colvilles Staff Magazine

Original April 1920 issue of Colville’s Magazine featuring the Glengarnock Gleanings section. Includes a profile and portrait of Hugh Munro, a portrait of juvenile champion Andrew McDowal, along with local social events, football activity, community gatherings, and reports from the Works. Fully transcribed and preserved below – original scans are above (pp. 67–68).

The issue also features a humorous illustrated piece titled “Useless!”, drawn by Jas. Holmes of Glengarnock, reflecting everyday workplace life and humour of the period.

  • Mr. Hugh Munro – long-serving employee at Glengarnock Works, featured with portrait and profile
  • Mr. Andrew McDowal – Juvenile Champion, Scottish Inter-Works Sports (1919), shown in portrait
  • Illustration: “Useless!” – humorous drawing depicting two men in a washroom setting drawn by Jas. Holmes, Glengarnock
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Glengarnock Gleanings (March 1920) | Colvilles Staff Magazine

Original March 1920 issue of Colville’s Magazine featuring the Glengarnock Gleanings section. Includes a profile and portrait pictures of Robert Adair, O.B.E. and golfer William Gibson, along with local social events, football activity, community gatherings, and reports from the Works. Fully transcribed and preserved below – original scans are above.

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Glengarnock Gleanings (1920) | Colvilles Staff Magazine, Poem.

Original February 1920 issue of Colvilles Magazine featuring the poem “On Strikes” by William Ferguson of Glengarnock Works. Written in Scots, the poem reflects on labour, conflict, and the hope for peace and cooperation between workers and employers. Fully transcribed and preserved below with an image from local artist J.W Sorbie – original scan is above.

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Glengarnock Gleanings (January 1920) | Colvilles Staff Magazine

Original January 1920 issue of Colville’s Magazine Glengarnock Gleanings section. Includes local news, football results, YMCA activities, and a historical report of a tragic accident. Fully transcribed and preserved below – original scan is above:

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Kilbirnie’s Museum (The Stables)

During the 1980s and a bit of the 1990s there was a museum under the Walker Hall – it was accessed via a small alleyway right next to the hall and the sign “museum” hung on it long after the museum disappeared. It was called the Stables museum because supposedly before the Walker Hall, there were stables there and also the remains of a very old medieval pub.

I have been in touch with the council to try and find out where the stuff went when it closed. They have given me a catalogue of stuff they hold from the museum which you can access here.

There are a few things missing though which I can clearly remember which you can see below:

  1. A 19th century original portrait picture of Robert William Knox of Moorpark in a frame
  2.  The block cement stone from the lamp on the bridge which was Robert William’s gift to the town.  It has engravings on there. 

It is possible that the picture was loaned either from the Knox Institute which was at the cross in Kilbirnie (it’s been closed for years though), the Masonic Lodge, the mill office or the main Walker Hall which the museum sat under. That would have been returned to wherever it came from when the museum closed.

 The stone from the bridge on the other hand was fairly big and my guess is that it might be stored somewhere by the council or else left under the Walker Hall where the museum was.  The lamp had long gone, it was only the stone that was left.

If anybody knows where these things are, please let me know because they should be catalogued somewhere to make sure they don’t get lost again so they hopefully can be preserved.  

William John Glass

This is William John Glass, he was my Great Grandfather. He married Sarah Hay in 1905 and lived in Glengarnock. At the time of marriage he was living at Auchengree,  He had many brothers and sisters and came from a huge family. His parents had emigrated from Northern Ireland in the 1800’s, they were James Glass and Anne Moore from around Bushmills somehwere.

He died in Central Avenue, before it was rebuilt into private houses we know today.  They are buried in KIlbirnie old cemetery in an unmarked grave.