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Glengarnock Steel Staff Magazine 1925. John Anderson, Thomas Clark and Peggy Strain.

Thomas Clark, John Anderson, Callen, Begg, Cunningham, MacBride, Jamieson, Fraser, Hamilton, Thoorburn, Corbett, Peggy Strain and many others.

Glengarnock Steel Works Staff Magazine 1925

Two of these pages (not related) are carrying stories about Wilson Anderson and his promotion and flowers.

Other names:

Robert Corbett

John Thorburn

Fred Dickie leaving for Sydney

Robert Dumphy, George Reid, John Hamilton, John Knox, Andrew,  McGookin, Jamieson, McGhie, Kerr, Graham. Faulds, Frame. Ross, McBlane,  McLeod, Reekie, McBlane, Brennan.

Poem by Thomas Miller.

There are also a number of other names about Glengarnock Bowling Club.

 

 

Glengarnock Steel Works Staff Magazine 1922 – James McGinley

Profile on James McGinley, moved to Glengarnock from Coatbridge. on 2 pages.

Surnames: Henderson, Hynd, Martin, Aiton, McGinley, Anderson, Morrison, Barclay, Dumphy,  Richardson, Connell, Busby, McBride, Robertson, Wood, Ramsay, Stewart, McBlane,  Baxter, Reid, Clifford, Vann. (Please check for further names)

 

Poem by George Robertson,  Glengarnock, 1922

Glengarnock Steel Works – Pat Milligan and James Dorrans 1922

The spotlight in this Colvilles Magazine from December 1922 was on two characters with biographies of both men who came from the local area.  There are plenty of other names as well of events in and around Kilbirnie and Glengarnock.

Glengarnock Steel Works: War Memorials unveiled (including Kilbirnie) November 1922.

 

To avoid confusion, let me explain:

  1. There was a Plaque for both wars  inside Glengarnock Church (demolished) and details can be found here on the Imperial War Museum´s site and it resides now in the Auld Kirk of Kilbirnie along with another plaque for their own Kilbirnie parishoners.
  2. A memorial for WW1 was a plaque attached to a building at the steel works.   I have seen it as a boy and I recall that it was on the back of one of the steel works offices. I do not know if that contained names of the second war also. The Colvilles staff magazines in the early 1920s contained a pull out glossy souvenir about those employees who died during the first world war. Details are on this site.
  3.  A new Plaque was unveiled at Glengarnock Primary School for WWII only but that school has since been demolished  – it may have been transferred to the replacement secondary school at Glengarnock. The outdated Imperial war museum entry is here for that one. 
  4. A separate war memorial exists in Kilbirnie at the park gate covering both wars for people who lived in Kilbirnie. The Imperial war museum reference is here.

Here is the roll of Honour from the staff magazine about Glengarnock with the Steel works Employee names on there: