An insight with a photo of a young man Terence McCabe and his trip to France. I am currently scanning the entire edition on to another post in this blog. Please send me an Email if you have problems locating it.
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
Biography of Robert Ferguson
Lots of names in these ones, I cant write all of them:
AH Graham, JH Hill, A. McDowall,
Page 1 – A tribute to Alexander McInnes
Other names: William Brown
Page 2: Alex McInnes, Peggy Law, Jas. Gibson, poem by P. Milligan “Where Garnock Flows”
Page 3: Robertson, Marshall, Reekie, Clifford, Glen, Gilmour, McMurray, Knox, Logan, Higgins, Ramsay, Aitken, MacBride, Robertson.
(Please contact me for the scan)
Text of Page 1
Colville’s Magazine – Glengarnock Gleanings (January 1925)
We take great pleasure in presenting the portrait of Mr. Alexander Campbell, though it is with regret that we announce his departure from our midst. Mr. Campbell left for Wellington, New Zealand, on the 12th of February.
Continue reading “Glengarnock Steel Works Staff Magazine 1924”
Article about James Vann Whitelaw 1907 – 1979 (Kilbirnie) – my guess would be this edition is around 1925.
The first short article contains the names Breckenridge, Bell, Ferguson as well as a reference to the Ryeside Barracks in Dalry. This a bit of a stray as I was focussing in on the 1920s. I will get back to the 1920s shortly.
Robert Mathews, Drawing office, Glengarnock Bowling Club and some family outings in the 1940s. DK Glass making a presentation (I don´t think he worked at Glengarnock)
The sad obituary of Robert Gibson Boyce.
Names in this article and likely in the photo: James Gibson, Mary Steele, G Jaffray, E.Pirrett, M.Martin, Alan Walker, Ed Kellett, G. Hamilton, Doris Gaze, D McKee, Margaret Fulton, WI Thomson, Tom Davidson, M. Kircaldy, (mentioned in some football results elsewhere) E Hamilton, J. Graham, Alan Hamilton, John Archibald, Bert Smith, WM Baillie.
Lots of local names including Margaret Johnstone´s Roselea troup of dancers….. as well as other football and sports news: George Dallas and AH Graham from Maryhill. Reverend Arthur R. Wiseman, former employee of Glengarnock Steel on a trip home from Canada.
R. Taylor, J. Harley, R. Sharp and R. Craig seem to have been the winners of the day.
Lady Amy Janet Bilsland 1892 – 1979 was the Daughter of David Colville.
I was trying to figure out where Kersland Field was – from the picture it looks a lot like the football ground they have in Kilbirnie now, called Vale Park but yet Kersland was over beside Glengarnock.
Names: John Colville, Steven Colville, Lady Bilsland, James Hamilton, Archibald Russell, Margaret Johnstone´s Roselea troup, MB Walker, Ray Topping.
Fraser, McIntyre, Sutherland, Graham, Rintoul, Hutchison, Gordon, Wallace, Renfrew, Barry, Hughes,
I recently visited the Mitchell Library Glasgow where the entire collection of the staff magazines for Colvilles are held. For those of you who dont know, Colvilles owned not only these steel works at Glengarnock but many others across the region. They issued a staff magazine between 1920 and the 1960s. At which time it became British Steel. The continued with magazines which are likely around somewhere. These bound magazines can also be purchased if you google them, online.
The Colvilles magazine contains many bits of information, photos, stories and letters about and from the Glengarnock Steel works Employees. I started to collect some of these by using the camera on my phone before the library assistant stopped me and said I need to photocopy them instead. I am posting the ones I found which are a few extracts of the earlier magazines with news of Glengarnock. The early copies seem to focus a lot on regular contributors like William Allan or Allen who was a gifted poet and photographer, and Robert Stevenson, a photographer and writer who seemed to finally leave in the early days, both locals. There also common surnames like Blue (see May 1920), McTaggart, Milligan, Geddes, and many more in these 1920s editions. If you are researching a particular North Ayrshire name, tell me and I will try to help. They also talk about the social events which the employees went to, such as dances, talks and classes, particularly in the Orange Hall (now demolished) which if I remember correctly may have been owned by the Steel works or at least built on steel works land.
I will post each one separately, in the coming days to ensure I cover and transcribe all of the relevant information in there.
