Watt Library, Greenock

Newspaper Index

This index covers stories that have appeared in newspapers in the Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow area from the start of the nineteenth century. It is provided to researchers as a reference resource to aid the searching of these historic publications which can be consulted, preferably by prior appointment, at the Watt Library, 9 Union Street, Greenock.

Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page W. G. McAulay Bakers, W G McAulay to close their bakery in captain Street. Greenock Telegraph 27/01/1968 7 Greenock W. G. McAulay Bakers, £20,000 damage to Captain Street Bakery. Greenock Telegraph 25/07/1935 2 Greenock W. G. McAulay, Bakers, Photograph c1919 for McAulay's bakery in Duncan Street. Greenock Telegraph 10/12/1973 8 Greenock W. Hume & Co., Port W Hume & Co's copper & brass works destroyed by fire Greenock Telegraph 26/04/1894 2 Glasgow Walker, Hugh William Death of local sugar refiner Greenock Telegraph 30/12/1913 2 Walker, John Carmalt Obituary for last member of the Walker family to be associated with sugar refining in the town Greenock Telegraph 02/09/1980 7 Wallace Square, Photograph showing view of demolition of McSweeny's Hotel in Wallace Square Greenock Telegraph 02/11/1926 4 Greenock Wallace, Dr. Dr Wallace's pamphlet on mortality in Greenock. Greenock Advertiser 24/01/1860 2 Wallace, Robert Death of Robert Wallace - obituary. Details of funeral arrangements - 6 April p2. Funeral - 10 Greenock Advertiser 03/04/1855 2 April p2R Wallace, Robert Reply to question in House of Commons to Robert Wallace's suggestion of stamped letter paper Greenock Advertiser 11/08/1854 2 Wallace, Robert Robert Wallace to move for select committee to revise Post-Office laws. Greenock Advertiser 09/03/1837 2 Wallace, Robert Letter on recent acquisition of Well Park and proposed Greenock Academy Greenock Advertiser 06/05/1851 2 Wallace, Robert Robert Wallace to move in Parliament that a select committee should be se up to investigate Greenock Advertiser 05/09/1833 2 allegations of abuse by Post Office Worker. Wallace, Robert Bust finished by local man Peter Townsend Greenock Advertiser 02/03/1858 2 Wallace, Robert Letter from Robert Wallace who is dissatisfied with concessions made and intends to bring Greenock Advertiser 08/08/1833 2-3 matter before Parliament. Wallace, Robert Materials for monument arrive details of monument Greenock Advertiser 16/10/1857 2 Wallace, Robert Details of monument Greenock Advertiser 11/12/1857 2 Wallace, Robert Details of photograph taken by Mr Stevenson of Robert Wallace Greenock Advertiser 09/05/1854 2 Wallace, Robert Article on the town's first MP Greenock Telegraph 01/04/1977 5 Wallace, Robert Corporation buy silver candelabra, which was presented to him - details. Photograph 21 July p4 Greenock Telegraph 23/06/1924 2 Wallace, Robert Article on his achievement in Postal Reform and overshadowing by Rowland Hill Greenock Telegraph 11/08/1979 9 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Wallace, Robert Monument to be erected in Wallace Square Greenock Telegraph 03/04/1886 2 Wallace, Robert Item on his method of constructing note or letter paper without use of envelope Greenock Advertiser 17/02/1854 2 Wallace, Robert Further additions to testimonial Greenock Advertiser 12/11/1852 2 Wallace, Robert Extract from the Scotsman on speech made by R Wallace on penny postage Greenock Advertiser 01/10/1839 2 Wallace, Robert Details of his petition, before Select Committee of House of Commons, presented after the Greenock Advertiser 25/05/1852 1 payment of postage in money at post offices was stopped Wallace, Robert Committee for the testimonial decide to have bust made by Patrick Park Greenock Advertiser 15/06/1852 2 Wallace, Robert Proposal that he should take office as Provost Greenock Advertiser 23/09/1833 2 Wallace, Robert Letter from Robert Wallace on delivery of mail by mail coaches. Greenock Advertiser 09/10/1837 1 Wallace, Robert Visit by Robert Wallace and the Secretary of the Post Office Commission. Greenock Advertiser 18/01/1836 2 Wallace, Robert Robert Wallace presents petition for a uniform 1d penny postage. Greenock Advertiser 23/04/1839 2 Wallace, Robert Public meeting to thank Robert Wallace for aid given in post-office abuses. Greenock Advertiser 22/08/1833 3 Wallace, Robert Trustees of the Wallace Fund select design for monument - details Greenock Advertiser 24/02/1857 2 Wallace, Robert Signatures on petition now 2766 to be sent to Lord Chancellor and Robert Wallace. Greenock Advertiser 25/02/1833 2 Wallace, Robert Letter from Robert Wallace on M. Dunlop's law reform bills Greenock Advertiser 16/03/1855 2 Wallace, Robert Testimonial to be presented on 30 September. Extract from Reformer's Gazette - 28 September Greenock Advertiser 17/09/1852 2 3 p2. Full report of ceremony 1 October p1, 4, again 5 October p1, 2 Wallace, Robert Glasgow to join National Testimonial - again 5 July p2 Greenock Advertiser 18/06/1850 2 Wallace, Robert Plans for National Testimonial still going ahead. Contributions - 19 September p2, 3 Greenock Advertiser 05/09/1851 2 Wallace, Robert Death of is wife who died at Largs Greenock Advertiser 15/12/1846 2 Wallace, Robert Subscriptions to testimonial flowing in. Again: 5 April p2, 9 April p2, 23 April p2, and 26 April p2. Greenock Advertiser 29/03/1850 2 Wallace, Robert Drawing of his monument on the Esplanade Greenock Telegraph 16/06/1894 3 Wallace, Robert Letter from Robert Wallace on mishandling of Merchant Seamens’ Fund and copy of ‘Account of Greenock Advertiser 10/10/1843 2 Income & Expenditure of the Funds for the relief of seamen in Merchant Service for 1842. Again 17th Oct page 2 Wallace, Robert Further list of subscribers to National Testimonial Greenock Advertiser 25/10/1850 3 Wallace, Robert Freedom of burgh of Dingwall - 24 August and that of Inverness on 26 August Greenock Advertiser 28/08/1846 2 Wallace, Robert Reply form Robert Wallace to memorial from council in respect of arrivals and departures of the Greenock Advertiser 16/05/1843 2 mail. Wallace, Robert Leaves Kelly to settle in England Greenock Advertiser 03/03/1846 2 Wallace, Robert Robert Wallace and Committee attend performance at Theatre. Greenock Advertiser 07/01/1833 2 Wallace, Robert Resigns as MP for Greenock due to ill health, Article - 4 April p2, again - 8 April p2 Greenock Advertiser 01/04/1845 3 Wallace, Robert Letter to the Provost of Greenock giving reasons for resigning the town's Member of Parliament Renfrewshire Advertiser 05/04/1845 2 Wallace, Robert Sale of wines, silver plate, guns etc. to be held at Kelly House on 23 October Greenock Advertiser 17/10/1845 3 Wallace, Robert Receives freedom of city of Aberdeen Greenock Advertiser 05/10/1841 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Wallace, Robert To receive freedom of Paisley. Report of ceremony - 16 January p1. Details - 30 January p2 Greenock Advertiser 09/01/1844 2 Wallace, Robert Extract from North Devon Journal on Wallace Testimonial. Report of meeting in Paisley to join Greenock Advertiser 26/03/1850 2 national testimonial Wallace, Robert Family history of Wallaces Greenock Advertiser 07/05/1850 1 Wallace, Robert Meeting to originate National Testimonial to Robert Wallace to be held on 7 March. Report of Greenock Advertiser 01/03/1850 2 meeting 8 March p2, 3, again 12 March p1g Wallace, Robert Further comments on his stamped paper proposal0 Greenock Advertiser 27/10/1854 2 Wallace, Robert Public meeting called for so that Robert Wallace can fulfil his pledges given to electors of the Greenock Advertiser 10/10/1833 2 town. Report of meeting - 14 Oct. p2 Wallace, Robert Report of dinner and speeches given in honour of local MP Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1834 2 3 Wallace, Robert Explanation of certain bills recently passed by House of Commons Greenock Advertiser 23/07/1847 2 Wallace, Robert Appointed to bring Gourock Harbour bill but shall maintain Greenock's interests Greenock Advertiser 06/04/1835 3 Wallace, Robert Meeting to discuss testimonial to Robert Wallace. Again 1 Feb. p2, 15 Feb, p2 Greenock Advertiser 29/01/1850 2 Wallace, Robert Health improving - now living in Devon Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1846 2 Wallace, Robert Reply from Robert Wallace on proposal to set up a national testimonial for him. Report of Greenock Advertiser 15/03/1850 2 original meeting in Aberdeen Herald - 19 March p1 Wallace, Robert Presentation of piece of plate from town - report Greenock Advertiser 12/02/1835 2 Walter Ritchie & Sons History of Walter Ritchie & Sons 1807-1814. Greenock Telegraph 02/02/1899 3 War Memorials Memorials to be updated to include members of armed forces and merchant navy killed during Greenock Telegraph 11/08/1981 7 both wars Ward Boundaries Ward redistribution: objects to 9 Ward proposal, letter from Secretary of State: 15th Mar P2. Greenock Telegraph 18/01/1934 4 Ward Boundaries Inquiry into proposed redistribution of wards: 7th 5 Sept P4; 8th Sept P3; 9th Sept P4. Greenock Telegraph 06/09/1933 2 Watchmakers Watchmakers, jewellers and nautical instrument makers to close shops at 5pm on Saturdays Greenock Advertiser 17/05/1853 3 Watchmakers John Clark, Cathcart Street. Alex Rankin, William Street. Ziprian Robold, East Quay Lane. Greenock Advertiser 03/10/1836 1 Andrew Buchanan, William Street. Robert Butler, Hamilton Street. Luke Lindsay, Hamilton Street. Watchmakers Item on an unusual clock made by Thomas McNeil, Cathcart Street Greenock Telegraph 24/10/1913 2 Watchmakers George Douglas, watchmaker and engraver Greenock Advertiser 19/03/1850 3 Watchmakers John Campbell, watch and clock maker of Greenock Greenock Advertiser 25/06/1824 3 Watchmakers Item on the early clocks in the town Greenock Telegraph 16/02/1982 5 Watchmakers Article on John (or William) Heron who also built the observatory in Newton Street, Again - 14 Greenock Telegraph 05/10/1976 4 Oct. p8 Watchmakers Letters on early watch and clockmakers. 15 March p2, 16, 17 and 19 March, Greenock Telegraph 18/03/1904 2 Watchmakers Firm of Robold and Blair, British and German clockmakers dissolved Greenock Advertiser 15/12/1846 3 Watchmakers John Douglas, Captain Street Greenock Advertiser 13/05/1845 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watchmakers John Clark, Mount Park; Alex Rankin, Cartsdyke; Patrick Devlin, William Street; Robert Butler, Greenock Advertiser 13/10/1840 4 Hamilton Street; Luke Lindsay, Mount View. Watchmakers James Gardner opens premises at 8 Hamilton Street (chronometer, watch maker and nautical Greenock Advertiser 26/03/1852 3 instrument maker) Watchmakers John Clark, Mount Park. Alexander Rankin, Cartsdyke. Robert Butler, Hamilton Street. Luke Greenock Advertiser 27/09/1839 1 Lindsay, Mount View Watchmakers Mr Rankin, watchmaker, William Street Greenock Advertiser 23/03/1837 2 Watchmakers Patrick Devlin, opposite the Tar Pots Greenock Advertiser 03/05/1838 3 Watchmakers John Garrick, Mid quay Greenock Advertiser 29/06/1812 3 Watchmakers John Clark, south side of Cathcart Street. Alexander Rankin, east side William street. Luke Greenock Advertiser 14/10/1833 1 Lindsay, north side Hamilton Street, east o Sugarhouse Lane. George Buchanan, Robert Turnbull, west side of William Street. Watchmakers John Clark, Cathcart Street. Alexander Rankin, William Street. Robert Butler, Hamilton Street. Greenock Advertiser 04/10/1838 1 Luke Lindsay, Hamilton Street Watchmakers Patrick Devlin, William Street Greenock Advertiser 07/07/1840 2 Watchmakers John Clark, Cathcart Street. Alex Rankin, William Street. Robert Butler, Hamilton Street. Luke Greenock Advertiser 18/09/1837 1 Lindsay, Hamilton Street Watchmakers L Lindsay, 14 Hamilton Street, Greenock Greenock Advertiser 08/03/1825 3 Watchmakers John Clark, Mount Park. Alex Rankin, Cartsdyke. Patrick Devlin, William Street. Robert Butler, Greenock Advertiser 13/10/1840 4 Hamilton Street. Luke Lindsay, Mount View Watchmakers David Crighton, watchmaker, 28 Hamilton Street, moves to Glasgow Greenock Advertiser 13/11/1821 1 Watchmakers John Clark, Cathcart Street Greenock Advertiser 13/04/1835 2 Watchmakers James Miller, Port Glasgow. John Barr, Port Glasgow Greenock Advertiser 12/08/1833 3 Watchmakers William Forgie, Greenock Greenock Advertiser 28/12/1830 2 Watchmakers John Clark, moves from William Street to new buildings opposite to the White Hart Inn, Cathcart Greenock Advertiser 27/05/1828 3 Street Watchmakers Late Robert Turnbull, shop fronting William Street and Dalrymple Street Greenock Advertiser 27/12/1832 3 Watchmakers William McMaster & Co, Greenock. John Clark, William Street, Greenock Greenock Advertiser 08/09/1826 3 Watchmakers A Cochrane - Corner of the Square goldsmith Greenock Advertiser 05/10/1812 3 Watchmakers Robert Butler, Cathcart Street - Ziprian Robold, clockmaker, East Quay Lane Greenock Advertiser 19/10/1835 1 Watchmakers Mr Lindsay, Hamilton Street, Greenock Greenock Advertiser 06/04/1824 3 Watchmakers Allan Fauld, Clockmaker, Greenock Greenock Advertiser 19/12/1815 3 Watchmakers John McLeod - goldsmith, 29 Cathcart Street Greenock Advertiser 16/09/1816 1 Watchmakers A Cochrane - jeweller near the Port Office, 27 Cathcart Street Greenock Advertiser 21/07/1813 1 Watchmakers John Garrick - watchmaker - Greenock Greenock Advertiser 17/05/1813 1 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watchmakers Mr Clark in Greenock. Mr Hunter in Port Glasgow Greenock Advertiser 10/05/1813 3 Watchmakers Announced that their shops will close at 8pm Greenock Advertiser 05/04/1813 1 Watchmakers Mr Rankin, William Street, Greenock Greenock Advertiser 29/09/1826 2 Water Act Public meeting of ratepayers consider proposed Water Bill Greenock Telegraph 30/01/1875 2 Water Act Petition by Sir MR Shaw Stewart against Water Bill Greenock Telegraph 03/03/1869 3 Water Act Notice of proposed Water Act Greenock Advertiser 19/11/1874 1 Water Act Notice of proposed Water Act Greenock Telegraph 14/11/1874 1 Water Supply, Gourock Formal opening of the new clear water tank at Larkfield water works. Gourock Times 29/05/1936 3 Water Supply, Gourock Article on the history of the Gourock water supply. Greenock Telegraph 18/04/1966 5 Water Supply, Gourock Opening of Gourock's new water tank. Greenock Telegraph 28/05/1936 2 Water Supply, Gourock Annual inspection of the water complex. Gourock Times 02/07/1937 1 Water Supply, Gourock Improvements and extension to waterworks. Greenock Telegraph 13/09/1893 2 Water Supply, Gourock Gourock water works inaugurated: ceremony. Again 17th April p2 Greenock Advertiser 15/04/1862 2 Water Supply, Gourock £70,000 to be spent repairing the water pipes in Gourock. Greenock Telegraph 04/07/1983 7 Water Supply, Gourock Opening of new reservoir. Greenock Telegraph 15/05/1889 3 Water Supply, Gourock Last annual inspection of the town's waterworks before regionalisation. Gourock Times 23/06/1967 3 Water Supply, Gourock New reservoir for town completed. Greenock Telegraph 18/01/1876 3 Water Supply, Gourock In: depth investigation to be made into the poor water supply in Gourock 14th April p1 Greenock Telegraph 13/04/1983 10 Water Supply, Gourock Opening of new reservoir. Greenock Telegraph 19/06/1914 2 Water Supply, Greenock Correspondence with Shaw's Water Co. About present dispute Greenock Advertiser 07/12/1852 1 Water Supply, Greenock Reduction in charges for using gas Railway Co to lay tracks on streets -policemen to be paid by Greenock Advertiser 03/04/1840 2 Railway Co for taking charge of branch lines - Maximum speed 5mph Water Supply, Greenock Gas Works report by Alex Ritchie and ensuing discussion Greenock Advertiser 25/02/1848 2 3 Water Supply, Greenock Clyde Street - letter to Sir M R Shaw Stewart asking him to remove wall; improvements to other Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1852 1 streets; Orange Lodge request for march; Shaw's Water Water Supply, Greenock Paving of Drummer's Close; drainage and removal of nuisance from harbours Greenock Advertiser 19/10/1852 2 Water Supply, Greenock Improvements to streets; assessment of the Prison; Secretary of Gas Works Greenock Advertiser 23/06/1848 2 Water Supply, Greenock Election of trustees - report Greenock Advertiser 12/11/1852 2 Water Supply, Greenock Report by Committee of works; town wells supplied by town water not by Shaw's Water; Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1848 2 agreement between Trust and Shaw's Water must be adhered to. Water Supply, Greenock Dismissal of foreman from Gas Works; other gas work business with abstract of revenue and Greenock Advertiser 25/05/1848 1 2 expenditure Water Supply, Greenock Removal of manure depot to Inchgreen; repairs to Cartsdyke Bridge; Shaw Water Co. offer of Greenock Advertiser 16/10/1849 2 large dam; cost of two lights; payment of medical men Water Supply, Greenock Public washing green; prison assessment gas works Greenock Advertiser 19/05/1848 2 3 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Police wages increase; accumulation of manure; application of lamp in Forsyth Street; statue Greenock Advertiser 21/10/1853 2 labour assessment Water Supply, Greenock Cleaning of town; cholera prevention; repairs and improvements to streets; police wage Greenock Advertiser 30/09/1853 1 2 increase Water Supply, Greenock Report of Graveyard Committee. Article on report p2 Greenock Advertiser 30/12/1845 1 Water Supply, Greenock Dangerous state of Dellingburn; new drain in Rue-end Street; whinstone from Gourock quarries; Greenock Advertiser 18/08/1840 2 state and profits of gas works; fire engines ineffectual Water Supply, Greenock Laying of tramways in Shaw's and Dalrymple Street; to take rubbish excavated from new Greenock Advertiser 13/02/1846 2 3 harbour at Bay of Quick; gas - new proposals; report of burying ground committee Water Supply, Greenock Causewaying of several streets; Shaw's Water to lay main pipes along part of the town; foot Greenock Advertiser 24/03/1848 1 paths5 Water Supply, Greenock Objections to timber in Bay of Quick; John, Carnock and Springkell Streets to be causewayed; Greenock Advertiser 19/05/1840 2 Improvement Act; closing of Bogle Street, Railway Co power to cross Bogle street without permission; new lamps and gas leaks Water Supply, Greenock Plans to bring water from Loch Thom by tunnel may be delayed with Government squeeze. Greenock Telegraph 30/09/1966 9 History of water supply - 6 October p6 Water Supply, Greenock Enclosing of Dellingburn Greenock Advertiser 29/09/1840 2 Water Supply, Greenock Report of Sanitary Committee broken into wards Greenock Advertiser 24/04/1846 1 Water Supply, Greenock Captain Main's increase to be given; improvements carried out on streets; correspondence on Greenock Advertiser 23/12/1853 1 West Burn; complaints from innkeepers against police searching their premises Water Supply, Greenock Increase in police force; contractor for cleaning streets; obstructions to river at Bay of Quick Greenock Advertiser 24/07/1840 2 Water Supply, Greenock Sale of land at corner of Hamilton Street and West Burn Street; letter from Anderson, sugar Greenock Advertiser 29/06/1849 2 refiners to take water from sea; meeting with Shaw's Water postponed; lack of street lights; use of water gas. Water Supply, Greenock State of St Lawrence Street; sanitary state of the town; misunderstanding over appointment of Greenock Advertiser 22/12/1848 See district during cholera outbreak Entry Water Supply, Greenock Revenue of £324 above that of last year; brief account of road repairs Greenock Advertiser 08/10/1852 1 Water Supply, Greenock Details of Water Bill Greenock Advertiser 08/01/1869 1 Water Supply, Greenock Sanitary conditions of town- proposal to re-open public washhouse and green Greenock Advertiser 26/03/1847 2 Water Supply, Greenock Gas works on price of coal; memorial on causewaying of Main Street, Cartsdyke; Flax mill dam; Greenock Advertiser 18/06/1852 1 case of Sunday drinking at toll bar; complaints to Road Trust Water Supply, Greenock Proposal of Railway Co for addition to goods yard and extension to station Greenock Advertiser 21/07/1848 2 Water Supply, Greenock Article by Greenock Mechanic on the source of the Gryffe Greenock Advertiser 20/04/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock Annual report of revenue of gas works; macadamising of streets; opening up of Clyde Street - Greenock Advertiser 20/08/1852 1 report by Town Clerk and Procurator Fiscal; suggestion that market should be set up for sale of milk and other produce Water Supply, Greenock Two collections by dung carts daily; contract between Trust and Shaw's Water Co., state of Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1849 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page public weighing machine Water Supply, Greenock Repairs to several streets; numbering of streets; Caird & Co. given leave to shut the street to the Greenock Advertiser 21/02/1851 1 east of their works with gate and posts; gas works. Water Supply, Greenock Sanitary arrangements of streets ready; cleaning of drains at harbour; West Burn improvements Greenock Advertiser 24/09/1852 1 needed; public cleanliness Water Supply, Greenock Gas works accounts; report of works committee; meeting to be had with Railway Co. on Greenock Advertiser 22/09/1848 1 proposed action; public washing green Water Supply, Greenock Report by Gas Committee for year ending 30 June 1849. Abstract of accounts Greenock Advertiser 20/07/1849 2 Water Supply, Greenock Streets and roads - alterations; memorials regarding Clyde Street; report of gas works Greenock Advertiser 23/04/1852 1 committee Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs; dismissal of present sanitary inspector; dress of police; Shaw's Water disputes Greenock Advertiser 24/12/1852 1 Water Supply, Greenock Gas committee recommend reduction of 5%. Railway directors agree to bridge over Bogle Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1843 2 Street Water Supply, Greenock Correspondence between town clerk and deputation from public meeting on gas charges Greenock Advertiser 16/04/1847 2 Water Supply, Greenock Discussion of proposal to lay railway track to Quays and East Quay Lane Greenock Advertiser 17/12/1839 1 Water Supply, Greenock Rate of assessment, streets, repairs etc; subscription to Infirmary; canvassing for election votes Greenock Advertiser 18/06/1847 2 Water Supply, Greenock Paving of East Quay; unsanitary drain in Roxburgh Street; salary of Gas Works' manager Greenock Advertiser 23/07/1847 1 collection of fees from stall holders at fairs Water Supply, Greenock Sanitary state of the town; supply of water from fire-plugs Greenock Advertiser 22/10/1847 2 Water Supply, Greenock Permission to lay a tram road in Baker Street; state of other streets; appointments to Sanitary Greenock Advertiser 26/11/1847 2 Committee Water Supply, Greenock Action to be taken to prevent further accidents at stream in Cartsburn Street; McFie & Co's Greenock Advertiser 18/05/1849 1 proposal to lay pipe from works to harbour; Council bound by contract with Shaw's Water; Health of Towns Bill Water Supply, Greenock Greenock and Port Glasgow may get water from Loch Lomond Greenock Telegraph 15/12/1969 7 Water Supply, Greenock Council to ask Lower Clyde Water Board to fluoridate water supplies Greenock Telegraph 20/02/1970 11 Water Supply, Greenock Item on the 'Ling' (Delling) Burn Greenock Telegraph 20/10/1981 5 Water Supply, Greenock Water and pipes in streets; police wage increase; rate of assessment; difficulty in establishing Greenock Advertiser 24/06/1853 1 rights of Trust and Statute Labour; repairs necessary to certain roads; facilities for people bathing; West Burn clogged with ashes and rubbish Water Supply, Greenock Work begins on the new reservoirs behind Larkfield Industrial Estate Greenock Telegraph 09/09/1981 9 Water Supply, Greenock Many old houses in the west end may be at risk from lead in their water supply Greenock Telegraph 13/05/1981 9 Water Supply, Greenock District Council on favour of fluoridisation. Expert sought by Region - 9 September p7. District Greenock Telegraph 26/08/1978 7 Council split over fluoridisation - 14 September p13 Water Supply, Greenock Meeting on the question of fluoridation of the water supply Greenock Telegraph 09/12/1977 16 Water Supply, Greenock Photograph of the well at Loch Thom and the commemorative plaque put there by the 6th Argyll Greenock Telegraph 17/06/1977 12 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page and Sutherland Highlanders Water Supply, Greenock Arrangements for cleaning the streets; answer from Shaw's Water Co who cannot sell reservoir Greenock Advertiser 19/06/1846 2 but can let it to Water Trust Water Supply, Greenock Opening of several streets; article on Greenock Herald on way town assessment was collected; Greenock Advertiser 08/02/1853 1 master of works Water Supply, Greenock Item on Greenock's early water supplies Greenock Telegraph 18/05/1982 5 Water Supply, Greenock Opening up of Ann Street, report of gas committee Greenock Advertiser 12/03/1841 2 Water Supply, Greenock Police wages Greenock Advertiser 22/04/1853 1 Water Supply, Greenock Appointment of superintendent of street cleaning; bridge over Cartsburn at Arthur Street; new Greenock Advertiser 19/07/1850 2 street at Martha Brae; annual gas works committee report Water Supply, Greenock Report of Streets Committee; opening of Clyde Street; police wages Greenock Advertiser 18/03/1853 1 Water Supply, Greenock Paving Cathcart Street; report of gas work committee; settlement in McFie's dispute; increase in Greenock Advertiser 23/08/1850 2 police force Water Supply, Greenock Proposal to collect price of gas 3 times a year instead of twice; pavement in Hamilton Street; Greenock Advertiser 24/01/1845 2 laying of sewers; application from Railway Co to lay lines down Back Walk and through arches into Dellingburn Street, Shaw's Water Co new bill Water Supply, Greenock Increase on police wages; Caird & Co move wall behind property in Cartsdyke; inspector of Greenock Advertiser 18/02/1853 1 paving Water Supply, Greenock Future of the Cut uncertain. Corporation and County Council want its preservation Greenock Telegraph 07/01/1972 11 Water Supply, Greenock Article on need for a good water supply. Letter Greenock Advertiser 19/08/1803 4 Water Supply, Greenock 20 Jan p2; 17 Feb p3; 17 Mar p4; 21 April p4; 21 July p3; 18 Aug p4; 22 Sept p3; 20 Oct p3; 22 Greenock Telegraph 20/01/1886 See Dec p4 Entry Water Supply, Greenock Widening of Main Street in Cartsdyke; work in Hamilton Street; repairs to the streets; police Greenock Advertiser 20/05/1853 1 wages; sewerage Water Supply, Greenock Discussion on new system of sewering for the town Greenock Advertiser 22/12/1843 2 Water Supply, Greenock Rate of interest to be raised; state of some streets; mill at West Burn property of Trust - action to Greenock Advertiser 22/05/1846 2 be taken against tenant Water Supply, Greenock Report of Gas Committee: suggestion that lamps should be put in Union Street; Mill on West Greenock Advertiser 14/06/1838 2 Burn to be repairs; opening up of Harvie Lane Water Supply, Greenock Report of pipe laying operations. Shaw's Water lay pipe to foot of William Street - suggestion Greenock Advertiser 14/12/1837 2 that fire plug be attached Water Supply, Greenock Improvement in public water supply now that waste water from Walkinson's paper mill is no Greenock Advertiser 08/06/1837 1 longer going into Western Reservoir Water Supply, Greenock Report of new burial ground committee; discussion on finance of burial ground Greenock Advertiser 27/02/1846 2 Water Supply, Greenock Report on police establishment; tram road to be built in Baker Street Greenock Advertiser 19/03/1852 2 Water Supply, Greenock Store for manure; state of streets; lack of pavements; gas committee report Greenock Advertiser 20/12/1844 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Report of committee to allow Railway Co to lay lines along Back Walk accepted Greenock Advertiser 30/05/1845 2 Water Supply, Greenock Committee appointed to examine and report on burying grounds Greenock Advertiser 28/11/1845 2 Water Supply, Greenock List of new Commissioners Greenock Advertiser 10/11/1843 2 Water Supply, Greenock Memorial on obstruction at foot of West Burn street which causes flooding after heavy rain; Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1844 2 salary of Treasurer Water Supply, Greenock Paving of streets; Dellingburn, Bogle Street and Railway Co Greenock Advertiser 23/10/1840 2 Water Supply, Greenock Hamilton Street to be re-causewayed and main drain laid; Firms forbidden to deal in horse flesh; Greenock Advertiser 20/01/1854 1 bottle works; complaint against police Water Supply, Greenock Police captain applies for increase; cleaning of the town; repairs to streets; definition of Greenock Advertiser 18/11/1853 1 Greenock - Port Glasgow boundary Water Supply, Greenock Rate of assessment to remain the same; dispute with Railway Co over assessment of buildings Greenock Advertiser 23/06/1843 2 belonging to the Company Water Supply, Greenock Petition from residents in St Andrew's Square against W Simons. Bridge over Cartsburn - Greenock Advertiser 09/03/1837 2 question who will pay for repairs. Lack of water on south side of Hamilton Street Water Supply, Greenock Report by Committee to value ground upon which Railway wish to build; Report by General Greenock Advertiser 23/12/1842 2 Committee Water Supply, Greenock Rate of assessment to remain the same; Petition to macadamise Patrick Street; report from Greenock Advertiser 24/06/1842 2 Committee appointed to supervise cleaning of the Town Reservoir Water Supply, Greenock Regulations for Consumers of Gas by Meter; complaint from inhabitants of Ann Street; Greenock Advertiser 18/03/1842 2 Committee report on laying causewaying of streets unfinished at close of last season. Water Supply, Greenock Salaries of manager etc of gas works; memorial from inhabitants of Bogle Street on closure of Greenock Advertiser 24/09/1841 2 Bogle Street; Railway Co to build underpass or bridge over lines Water Supply, Greenock Report of Gas Committee; paving of streets and plans of Railway Co Greenock Advertiser 23/04/1841 2 Water Supply, Greenock Amount required for opening up of Harvie Lane. No money to be given by Water Trust for Greenock Advertiser 05/07/1838 2 project Water Supply, Greenock Report of Gas Committee who recommend further reduction in price of gas to meter consumers; Greenock Advertiser 22/03/1844 2 public market in West burn Street referred to Streets Committeeï Water Supply, Greenock Court of Session - Dennistoun v Water Trust - report of proceedings Greenock Advertiser 18/06/1869 1 Water Supply, Greenock 19 Jan p2; 16 Feb; 20 April; 21 June; 16 Aug; 21 Dec p3 Greenock Telegraph 19/01/1892 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 17 Feb p2; 20 Oct o2 Greenock Telegraph 17/02/1891 2 Water Supply, Greenock 22 Jan p2; 18 Mar p2 Greenock Telegraph 22/01/1890 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 19 Jan p3; 16 Mar p4; 20 April p3; 18 May p3; 22 June p3; 20 July p3; 17 Aug p3; 21 Sept p2; Greenock Telegraph 19/01/1881 See 19 Pct p3; 16 Nov p4; 21 Nov p2 Entry Water Supply, Greenock 21 Mar p4; 18 April p4; 20 June p3; 22 Aug p3; 16 Oct p2 Greenock Telegraph 21/03/1888 See Entry Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Bottleworks; agreement with Mr. Cooper over removal of his building; drainage of town; Railway Greenock Advertiser 19/03/1858 Co to acquire ground at Cartsdyke Water Supply, Greenock Sanitation and mortality rate; street repairs; quantity of water supplied by Shaw's Water, also Greenock Advertiser 18/06/1863 1 cost of water for sanitary use Water Supply, Greenock 21 Jan p3; 18 Feb p4; 18 Mar p3; 22 April p2; 20 May p4; 17 June p3; 22 July p4; 19 Aug p4; 16 Greenock Telegraph 21/01/1885 See Sept p4; 21 Oct p3 Entry Water Supply, Greenock Rates for water supply Greenock Advertiser 22/07/1807 1 Water Supply, Greenock Meeting to discuss estimates for the current year Greenock Telegraph 23/10/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock 16 Jan p3; 20 Feb p2; 16 April p3; 21 May p3; 18 June p3; 16 July p3; 20 Aug p3; 17 Sept p3; Greenock Telegraph 16/01/1884 See 22 Oct p3; 17 Dec p4 Entry Water Supply, Greenock 16 Jan p3; 19 Feb p2; 20 Feb p3; 20 Mar p4; 22 May p3; 18 June p2; 19 June p3; 20 Aug p2; 16 Greenock Telegraph 16/01/1895 See Oct p3 Entry Water Supply, Greenock 18 Jan p4; 22 Feb p3; 23 Mar p3; 19 April p4; 17 May p4; 21 June p4; 19 July p3; 20 Sept p4; Greenock Telegraph 18/01/1882 See 18 Oct p2; 20 Dec p3 Entry Water Supply, Greenock Mr Leslie to report on utilisation and economising on the Shaw's Water works; report given Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock 21 Jan p2; 17 Mar p2; 21 April p2; 19 May p3; 16 June p3; 18 Aug p3; 21 Sept p2 Greenock Telegraph 21/01/1880 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 23 Jan p2; 19 Feb p4; 21 Mar p4; 16 April p4; 21 May p4; 18 June p3; 16 July p4; 20 Aug p3; 17 Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1879 See Sept p4; 15 Nov p3 Entry Water Supply, Greenock Report on new works at the Gryffe; correspondence on the Trust's powers regarding new works Greenock Advertiser 16/07/1868 1 and other financial matters; details of trial balance sheet Water Supply, Greenock 15 Jan p3; 20 Feb p3; 20 Aug p2; 17 Sept p2; 16 Oct p2; 17 Dec p2C Greenock Telegraph 15/01/1889 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock Report on new works Greenock Telegraph 27/02/1869 1 Water Supply, Greenock 24 Feb p4; 28 April p1; 10 May p2; 26 May p1; 30 June p1; 28 July p1; 25 Aug p1; 27 Oct p1; 24 Greenock Advertiser 27/01/1870 1 Nov p1 Water Supply, Greenock Town Assessment; new bridge over West burn; tenants in Mince Collop Close apply for public Greenock Advertiser 22/06/1855 2 well; grant from Parochial Board in support of sanitary operations; accounts for recent riots Water Supply, Greenock Report on past years work; state of Bottleworks Greenock Advertiser 23/10/1857 1 Water Supply, Greenock 1 Jan p2; 26 Feb p2; 26 Mar p1; 30 April p1; 25 June p3; 27 Aug p2; 29 Oct p2 Greenock Advertiser 01/01/1874 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 25 Jan p1; 25 Mar p1; 26 April p1; 24 May p1; 26 July p1; 23 Aug p1; 27 Sept p1; 29 Nov p1; 27 Greenock Telegraph 25/01/1871 See Dec p1 Entry Water Supply, Greenock 26 Jan p1; 2 Mar p1; 25 Mar p2; 27 April p1; 25 May p1; 29 June p1; 27 July p1; 24 Aug p1; 28 Greenock Advertiser 26/01/1871 See Aug p2; 26 Oct p1; 30 Nov. p1; 28 Nov p1 Entry Water Supply, Greenock 25 Jan p1; 29 Feb p1; 14 Mar p1; 28 Mar p4; 30 May p1; 27 June p4; 25 July p1; 29 Aug p1; 26 Greenock Advertiser 25/01/1872 See Sept p1; 23 Nov p2; 26 Dec p2 Entry Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock 24 Jan p1; 28 Feb p1; 27 Mar p1; 29 May p1; 26 June p1; 24 July p1; 28 Aug p1; 25 Sept p1 Greenock Telegraph 24/01/1872 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 29 Jan p3; 26 Mar p3; 23 April p3; 20 May p2; 31 May p2; 25 June p2; 30 July p2; 27 Aug p4; 9 Greenock Telegraph 29/01/1873 See Sept p2; 10 Sept p3; 29 Oct p2 Entry Water Supply, Greenock 30 Jan p1; 27 Feb p4; 27 Mar p1; 24 April p1; 20 May p2; 31 May p1; 26 June p1; 31 July p1; 26 Greenock Advertiser 30/01/1873 See Aug p1; 11 Sept p1; 30 Oct p1~ Entry Water Supply, Greenock 18 Jan p2; 22 Mar p3; 19 June p4; 22 Aug p2; 19 Sept p4 Greenock Advertiser 18/01/1877 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 17 Jan p4; 21 Feb p4; 21 Mar p3; 5 May p3; 16 May p3; 21 June p4; 17 July p2; 19 Sept p3; 17 Greenock Telegraph 17/01/1883 See Oct p3; 19 Dec p3 Entry Water Supply, Greenock Memorial; report on progress at works Greenock Telegraph 12/08/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock 21 Feb p2; 22 Mar p3; 20 June p2; 18 July; 15 Aug; 17 Oct; 20 Dec Greenock Telegraph 21/02/1893 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock Report on new works at the Gryffe; correspondence on the Trust's powers regarding new works Greenock Telegraph 15/07/1868 1 and other financial matters; details of trial balance sheet Water Supply, Greenock 16 Jan p2; 17 Jan p3; 21 Feb; 21 Mar; 19 June; 20 June p3; 21 Aug p2; 16 Oct p2 Greenock Telegraph 16/01/1894 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 27 Jan p2; 24 Feb p2; 28 April p2; 23 June p2; 25 Aug p2; 29 Sept p3; 27 Oct p2 Greenock Telegraph 27/01/1875 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock Monthly meeting - law, finance and works committee Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1876 3 Water Supply, Greenock 25 Feb p3; 29 Feb p2; 24 June p3; 2 Aug p2; 23 Sept p2; Accounts 8 Oct p3; 28 Oct p2 Greenock Telegraph 25/02/1874 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 19 Jan p3; 16 Mar p4; 20 July p3; 16 Aug p2; 17 Aug p3; 19 Oct p3 Greenock Telegraph 19/01/1887 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 15 Jan p2; 20 Feb p4; 20 Mar p2; 18 June; 16 July; 17 July p3; 20 Aug p2 Greenock Telegraph 15/01/1901 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 21 Feb p2; 19 April p3; 18 July p2; 15 Aug Greenock Telegraph 21/02/1899 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 18 Jan p2; 16 Feb p3; 21 June p2; 19 July; 16 Aug; 20 Sept; 18 Oct; 20 Dec Greenock Telegraph 18/01/1898 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 16 Feb p2; 16 Mar; 21 April p3; 18 May p2; 16 June p3; 20 July p2; 17 Aug Greenock Telegraph 16/02/1897 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock 18 Feb p2; 22 April; 19 May; 16 June; 21 July; 16 Sept p3; 23 Oct Greenock Telegraph 18/02/1896 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock Memorial for the Water Trust for the opinion of counsel; resident engineer's report; Gryffe Works Greenock Telegraph 08/09/1868 1 9 Sept p1; accounts 19 Sept p2 Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting; Letter on water rates - 28 July p2 Greenock Telegraph 25/07/1868 1 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Completion of extension to waterworks at Loch Thom Greenock Telegraph 29/08/1884 3 Water Supply, Greenock Tunnelling of Whinhill to bring water supplies to the town under cover has to be shelled due to Greenock Telegraph 02/04/1956 5 credit squeeze Water Supply, Greenock Article on the 125th centenary for waterworks Greenock Telegraph 15/04/1952 5 Water Supply, Greenock New scheme to benefit the East End of the town Greenock Telegraph 28/04/1941 2 Water Supply, Greenock Centenary of the Shaw's Waterworks - brief history - 16 April p2, 18 April p4, 30 April Greenock Telegraph 13/04/1927 2 Water Supply, Greenock Report by Gas Committee; macadaming of the Glebe; state of Clyde Street Greenock Advertiser 21/03/1851 1 Water Supply, Greenock Article on the forthcoming centenary of the Shaw's Water Greenock Telegraph 02/04/1926 4 Water Supply, Greenock Opening of new filters at Overton Greenock Telegraph 01/06/1922 6 Water Supply, Greenock Method of paying money into water Trust funds Greenock Advertiser 20/06/1951 1 Water Supply, Greenock Water system - question of extending the present system Greenock Telegraph 03/04/1911 2 Water Supply, Greenock 23 Feb p1; 23 Mar p1; 27 April p1; 10 May p1; 25 May p1; 29 June p1; 27 July p1; 24 Aug p1; Greenock Telegraph 26/01/1870 1 28 Aug p1; 26 Oct p1; 23 Nov p1; 28 Dec p1 Water Supply, Greenock Reminiscences of Loch Thom and Shaw's Waterworks Greenock Telegraph 27/10/1898 2 Water Supply, Greenock Street improvements (rue End St and Clyde St); Shaw's Water Co to lay mains in parts of town Greenock Advertiser 24/10/1851 1 with low water pressure; contract with Shaw's Water; statute labour assessment; police wages Water Supply, Greenock Article on first water supply and later in 1827 opening of Shaw's Water Works Greenock Advertiser 17/04/1877 3 Water Supply, Greenock Revenue for 1875 and expenditure Greenock Telegraph 16/08/1876 3 Water Supply, Greenock Details of plans for land at Bay of Quick near Albert Quay Greenock Advertiser 04/01/1853 2 Water Supply, Greenock Statutory inspection of water works - report Greenock Telegraph 03/04/1876 2 Water Supply, Greenock Road Trustees to oppose new line to Largs; footpath at West Quay to be postponed; new scale Greenock Advertiser 19/03/1847 2 of charges and discounts; management at Gas Works Water Supply, Greenock Greenock water supply - inquiry 2 August p3, 3 August. Compensation to mill owners £102,358 Greenock Telegraph 01/08/1921 3 - details 31 August p2 Water Supply, Greenock Collection of assessment - statement in 'herald' Greenock Advertiser 22/06/1852 1 Water Supply, Greenock Accounts and works; healthy state of public funds; causewaying of streets; state of fire engines Greenock Advertiser 20/10/1848 2 Water Supply, Greenock Survey carried out by Sanitary Committee - vast number of unemployed meeting with Parochial Greenock Advertiser 24/11/1848 1 Board Water Supply, Greenock Article on proposed expenditure for new waterworks Greenock Advertiser 05/12/1874 3 Water Supply, Greenock Article on proposed expenditure for new waterworks Greenock Telegraph 03/12/1874 3 Water Supply, Greenock Report on new works, new bill committee Greenock Telegraph 13/01/1869 1 Water Supply, Greenock Annual report to Police Board Greenock Telegraph 01/11/1868 3 Water Supply, Greenock 25 Feb p1; 27 Feb p1; 2 Mar p2; 11 Mar p1; 13 Mar p2; 25 Mar p1; 29 April p1; 27 May p1; 24 Greenock Advertiser 14/01/1869 1 June p1; 29 June p2; 10 July p2; 15 July p1; 29 July p1; 10 Aug p2; 17 Aug p2; 26 Aug p1; 28 Aug p1; 31 Aug p1; 4 Sept p1; 14 Sept p2; 18 Sept p1; 30 Sept p1; 28 Oct p1; 7 Dec p2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Meeting of trustees to discuss petition against Water Bill by Sir MR Shaw Stewart Greenock Telegraph 10/03/1869 3 Water Supply, Greenock Report and estimates on new Gryffe Works Greenock Telegraph 28/04/1869 1 Water Supply, Greenock Greenock and Shaw's Transfer Act- again 13 August p1; report on work at Gryffe Works; Greenock Telegraph 25/07/1868 1 memorial for the opinion of counsel - 10 September p1; work report - 15 October p4' meeting of ratepayers on question of water rate-20 Oct p2; Greenock - Ayrshire Railway Bill; estimates of finance of Gryffe Water Works-24 Oct p1; question of annual estimate - 31 Oct p1; annual report 3 Nov p1; Greenock Water - bill to levy assessment before Parliament- 21 Nov p2 Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting to discuss proposed chuting of water to mills and stopping domestic supply Greenock Telegraph 29/06/1869 1 between 6pm and 4am; again 10 July p1; 13 July p3; 14 July p1; 20 July p1; 28 July p1; 31 July p3; 3 Aug p1; 10 Aug p1; 17 Aug p1; 25 Aug p1; 27 Aug p1; 28 Aug p3; 6 Sept p3; 7 Sept p1; 8 Sept p3; 16 Sept p3; 17 Sept p1; 20 Sept p3; 29 Sept p1; 27 Oct p1 7 Dec p1 Water Supply, Greenock 15 May p2; 19 June; 20 June p3; 17 July p2; 21 Aug Greenock Telegraph 15/05/1900 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock Widening of Rue End Street; case of children arrested for throwing dirt at priest's door; recent Greenock Advertiser 22/08/1851 1 riots; payments into Trust Funds Water Supply, Greenock Official opening of new water filters at Whinhill Greenock Telegraph 18/02/1957 4 Water Supply, Greenock Continuing debate into management of the Gas Works Greenock Advertiser 26/02/1847 2 Water Supply, Greenock Opening of new filters at Prospecthill which will improve the water supply Greenock Telegraph 19/07/1910 2 Water Supply, Greenock Footpath at West Breast; dam being built by Shaw's Water Co; gas charges; management of Greenock Advertiser 19/02/1847 2 3 Gas Works - lengthy discussion Water Supply, Greenock Police funds; continuing dispute over Clyde Street Greenock Advertiser 19/12/1851 1 Water Supply, Greenock Opening up of Clyde Street; committee set up to examine police expenditure Greenock Advertiser 21/11/1851 2 Water Supply, Greenock Article on cheap water in Greenock Greenock Advertiser 11/09/1873 2 Water Supply, Greenock Cleaning of streets; pavement at foot of Bank Street to Church Place; Statute Labour collection Greenock Advertiser 18/09/1846 2 Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting to discuss events at Shaw's Water Co's general meeting Greenock Advertiser 11/11/1851 2 Water Supply, Greenock Footpaths on West Quay Lane to William Street; repairs to Bell Entry Clock' opening of new Greenock Advertiser 22/01/1847 2 branch line of Shaw's Water; laying of rails from New Harbour to Cartsdyke; Gas Works Water Supply, Greenock Account from Mr Thom; wages of superintendent of fire-engines fixed at £15 per annum; police Greenock Advertiser 18/12/1846 2 surgeon; state of streets Water Supply, Greenock Cleaning of Streets, main pipes in Dalrymple and Shaw Streets; well in Market Street to be Greenock Advertiser 21/08/1846 3 move; streets in Cartsdyke; pension to widow of late Collector of Assessment; income ŵetc of Gas Works; street lighting Water Supply, Greenock Road from Ingleston to Belville Place and Ratho Street benefits from such a road; report of the Greenock Advertiser 27/02/1852 1 committee on police establishment; Clyde Street Water Supply, Greenock Continuation of child arrest case; improvement of streets in town; building of bridge at West Greenock Advertiser 19/09/1851 2 burn; road money Water Supply, Greenock Report of public meeting on the two water bills before Parliament Greenock Advertiser 17/04/1866 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Case of J Orr against Burgh Procurator Fiscal Greenock Advertiser 13/07/1855 1 Water Supply, Greenock Improvements to Terrace Road; bridge over West burn; repairs of Captain Street and drains in Greenock Advertiser 24/08/1855 1 Cartsdyke and West Blackhall Street; letter of Burgh Fiscal asking to be relieved of expenses connected with Orr's suspension Water Supply, Greenock Report of Gas Committee; bridge over West Burn; state of certain streets; alterations by Caird & Greenock Advertiser 21/09/1855 2 Co not started Water Supply, Greenock Examination of books; proposal to have monthly abstract; bridge over West Burn; plans for Greenock Advertiser 19/10/1855 1 Terrace Street; gas Committee; deficit in accounts due to sanitary operations Water Supply, Greenock Report on standing orders; drainage and causewaying of streets; motion for new Act of Greenock Advertiser 21/12/1855 1 parliament for the Burgh Water Supply, Greenock Repairs to streets; £100 from Statute Labour Trust towards East Shaw Street Bridge; Berryhill Greenock Advertiser 18/01/1856 1 dam; claim by Ferguson & Co sugar refiners that gas charge is too high Water Supply, Greenock Depot moved to Inchgreen; repairs to pavements and streets; sanitary state of town after Greenock Advertiser 21/12/1849 2 cholera outbreak; special for enquiry into water supply from Shaw's Water; road money Water Supply, Greenock Item on proposed reservoir for Greenock Water Works Greenock Advertiser 04/03/1865 2 Water Supply, Greenock List of rents of Trust's property; repairs and improvements; Shaw's Water's offer Greenock Advertiser 19/02/1863 1 Water Supply, Greenock Contracts for drains given out; complaints about use of Bottleworks for horse killing Greenock Advertiser 24/11/1854 1 Water Supply, Greenock Petitions opposing Greenock Water Bills. Select Committee - 19 July p1, 21 July p2. Public Greenock Advertiser 28/06/1866 1 meeting - 28 July p1. Reports by Drs Penny and Macadam - 16 August p2. Editorial - 21 August p2. Editorial - 11 Sept. 2. Report of engineers - 3 November p2 Water Supply, Greenock Report on Greenock water supply Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock Editorial on water supply proposals. Gryffe scheme - meeting of ratepayers - 3 March p1. Mr Greenock Advertiser 27/02/1866 2 Gale's report - 6 March p1. Public meeting - 8 March p2. Mr Gale's report - 10 March p12. Meeting of 4th ward - 15 March p2. Additional report by Mr Gale - 17 March p1, 2 Water Supply, Greenock Dispute over appointment of doctors who had large practices to help in outbreak; suggestion Greenock Advertiser 28/09/1849 2 3 that cholera hospital should be given up Water Supply, Greenock Privilege pipes and health of the town Greenock Advertiser 08/02/1866 2 Water Supply, Greenock Sale of Water Trust Perpetual Annuities; report on new 9pypers; Gryffe Works engineer's report Greenock Advertiser 11/06/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock Caird & Co's boundary wall; drains being laid; report of Gas Works Greenock Advertiser 22/09/1854 4 Water Supply, Greenock Report of Water Trust's meeting with directors of Shaw's Water to discuss purchase of the Greenock Advertiser 12/08/1865 2 Shaw's works Water Supply, Greenock Caird & Co's boundary wall Greenock Advertiser 18/08/1854 1 Water Supply, Greenock Letter on behalf of Mr Crawford of Cartsburn on re-letting of Bottle works Railway Co and Greenock Advertiser 17/02/1854 1 Dellingburn Street; plans for Regent and Roxburgh Streets. Water Supply, Greenock Water bill and need for a supply of water to working class houses; Shaw's Water - purchase Greenock Advertiser 16/03/1865 1 Water Supply, Greenock Observations made on Mr Leslie's report. Reports that in Mr Leslie's opinion work on the Gryffe Greenock Advertiser 30/01/1868 2 works is being carried out satisfactorily - 31 March p2. Bill before Parliament - 2 April p2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Judgement in case of Water Trustees - Robinson & Niven for their possession of the property of Greenock Advertiser 10/10/1854 2 Bottlework Water Supply, Greenock Details of judgement of Court of Session with regard to Gryffe water scheme. Letters - 22 Jan Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1867 2 p2, 24 Jan p1 Water Supply, Greenock Deaths from typhus; purchase of Shaw's Water; street improvements and repairs; Caledonian Greenock Advertiser 23/03/1865 1 Co's plans; increase in pay for police report Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting to discuss the agreement between Water and Harbour Trustees and Greenock Advertiser 15/04/1865 2 Caledonian Railway to construct branch railway Water Supply, Greenock Report by Nuisance Committee on operations in connections with typhus outbreak; esplanade Greenock Advertiser 18/05/1865 1 Water Supply, Greenock Rate of assessment; report on proposal bridge across Caledonian railway in Cartsdyke Greenock Advertiser 22/06/1865 1 Water Supply, Greenock Accounts for Gas Works; street repairs and improvements; sanitation and outbreaks of disease Greenock Advertiser 17/08/1865 1 Water Supply, Greenock Accounts Greenock Advertiser 05/10/1865 1 Water Supply, Greenock £47,150 in bank; another £70,000 promised Shaw's Water Transfer Act enables Trust to take Greenock Advertiser 17/01/1867 1 over works by Whitsunday- details Water Supply, Greenock Esplanade plans; street repairs and improvements Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock Caird & Co. boundary dispute; Bridge over West Burn Greenock Advertiser 18/05/1855 2 Water Supply, Greenock Caird & Co's boundary wall dispute Greenock Advertiser 02/03/1855 1 Water Supply, Greenock Report by engineers for Water Trust on present and future needs of the town's water supply Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock Caird & Co boundary wall; eviction of Messrs Fairrie; state of streets; need for new drains Greenock Advertiser 20/10/1854 1 Water Supply, Greenock Bottlework premises; drains in the town; improvements to Back Walks Greenock Advertiser 22/12/1854 4 Water Supply, Greenock Caird & Co's boundary wall Greenock Advertiser 02/02/1855 1 Water Supply, Greenock Bottleworks; Caird & Co and Robinson & Niven Greenock Advertiser 02/01/1855 1 Water Supply, Greenock Drains; street improvements; plans for laying out west end of the town; Nuisances Committee Greenock Advertiser 20/03/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Estimates for additional public wells; proposal to employ additional staff to cleanse streets; Greenock Advertiser 19/04/1860 1 paving of West Blackhall Street; capacity of Gas Works and need for new gasometer Water Supply, Greenock Article on James Watt and the town reservoirs Greenock Advertiser 11/11/1845 2 Water Supply, Greenock Drains and causewaying; report on East Regent Street; estimates for wells, street gratings etc; Greenock Advertiser 29/02/1856 1 drain in West Blackhall Street Water Supply, Greenock James Fairrie & Co; proposed to take Bottleworks for further year; causewaying of West Greenock Advertiser 23/02/1855 1 Blackhall Street; Captain Street - memorial from feuars to have road macadamised at their own expense; request for Ragged School to get grant out of Police Fund Water Supply, Greenock Type of stones to be used in Hamilton Street; pipes and drains; state of Virginia Street and east Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1854 1 end of the town; supply of water to those served by Shaw's Water Co Water Supply, Greenock Typhus and sanitary; Scott Bequest; street improvements and repairs Greenock Advertiser 23/02/1865 2 Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs - unable to drain upper part of town until quays were finished; rules and Greenock Advertiser 22/03/1857 1 regulations of lodging houses Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Voluntary assessment for rifle corps; report on privilege pipes Greenock Advertiser 27/10/1859 1 Water Supply, Greenock Improvements to streets; report of Account Committee; letter regarding burial returns Greenock Advertiser 22/12/1859 2 Water Supply, Greenock Proposal to lay tramway in Baker Street; alterations to proposed improvements in West Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1860 1 Blackhall Street; appointment of Account Committee Water Supply, Greenock Causewaying of Duncan Street; Thomson & Son's refusal to accept contract; street cleansing; Greenock Advertiser 01/03/1860 1 opening of Watt Street through to Kelly Street Water Supply, Greenock Despite sanitary improvements, 130 deaths during Feb; street repair and improvement; claims Greenock Advertiser 22/03/1860 1 by Shaw's Water Co Water Supply, Greenock Estimates for drains; improvements in streets Greenock Advertiser 17/03/1859 1 Water Supply, Greenock Proposals regarding Back Walks; cost to be borne by Shaw's Water; Sir M R Shaw Stewart and Greenock Advertiser 09/05/1856 1 trust Water Supply, Greenock Report of Gas Committee; alterations to West Shaw Street going ahead; cost of putting in drains Greenock Advertiser 19/09/1856 1 Water Supply, Greenock Request refused for Crawhill, Schultz & Co to lay lines from Sugarhouse to turntable in Greenock Advertiser 18/06/1858 1 Dellingburn Street; Causewaying of Cartsdyke improvements in drainage and streets Water Supply, Greenock Report of sub-committee into building in Rue End Street Greenock Advertiser 21/02/1854 1 Water Supply, Greenock Interim inspector (Nuisance Removal Act) to be appointed; West Blackhall Street; railway Greenock Advertiser 20/02/1857 1 alterations at Dellingburn passed; opening of streets held by Sir M R Shaw Stewart; other improvements Water Supply, Greenock Gas Committee - accounts and report; drainage; Nuisance Committee's report Greenock Advertiser 18/08/1859 2 3 Water Supply, Greenock Settlement of claim for damage by walker & Co; lease application for Bottleworks by Caird & Co; Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1857 1 application from Caledonian Co to alter arches at Dellingburn; improvements to streets; report of Nuisance Removal Committee Water Supply, Greenock West Blackhall Street; straightening of Knave Road; deposit system for Gas Works Greenock Advertiser 19/10/1856 1 Water Supply, Greenock Appointment of Inspector during Nuisance Removal Act - outline of duties Greenock Advertiser 20/03/1857 1 Water Supply, Greenock No water can be supplied to private pipes during any weather Greenock Advertiser 12/06/1832 3 Water Supply, Greenock Negotiations with Shaw's Water over charges for street cleansing; report of Gas Committee; Greenock Advertiser 24/07/1857 1 repairs to streets Water Supply, Greenock Gas report adopted; tenders for drains for Shaw, Hamilton, Houston and Kelly Streets; Mortality Greenock Advertiser 04/09/1857 1 rate in town too high - need for improvements in sanitary arrangements; Lease of bottleworks Water Supply, Greenock Improvements to certain streets; drainage of town Greenock Advertiser 24/10/1856 1 Water Supply, Greenock Cooper's property in Cartsdyke to enable widening of the street Greenock Advertiser 22/01/1858 2 Water Supply, Greenock Rate of assessment; Eldon Street; causewaying; Caird & Co and breakwater Greenock Advertiser 20/06/1856 1 Water Supply, Greenock Drainage; report of committee to consider need for change in the management of the Depute Greenock Advertiser 24/12/1858 1 Treasurer's department Water Supply, Greenock Magistrates to meet Trustees of the Water Fund. Each district to be managed by one or two Greenock Advertiser 08/11/1831 3 trustees to superintend cleanliness of town and lessen possibilities of disease Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Increase in police wages etc will result in increased rate of assessment; Gas Works report; Greenock Advertiser 23/06/1854 1 causewaying of streets; Bottleworks tenants; replies to letter appearing in Advertiser on borrowing by the Councilō Water Supply, Greenock Complaints over footpath and lighting in Kelly Street; summons for Trustees and Sir Michael R Greenock Advertiser 24/08/1839 2 Shaw Stewart for damages for the loss of child drowned in Cartsburn; sanitary committee to be reinstated Water Supply, Greenock Assessment rate; provision of accommodation should be a repetition of Conway affair Greenock Advertiser 21/07/1854 1 Water Supply, Greenock As J. Fairrie & Co refuse to sign contract, premises to be offered to other party; purchase of Greenock Advertiser 23/03/1855 1 properties in East Quay Lane; Caird & Co. boundary wall dispute Water Supply, Greenock Report of meeting of privilege water pipe owners - again 18 Jan p2 20 Jan p1 Greenock Advertiser 16/01/1866 2 Water Supply, Greenock Proposed increase in police surgeon's salary; Shaw's Water claim of privilege pipes; drainage of Greenock Advertiser 19/05/1859 1 Union Street; opening of Eldon Street Water Supply, Greenock Gas Committee - lamps to be lit all year, proposal to remove lamps from walls and install lamp Greenock Advertiser 20/08/1858 1 posts; estimates for drains in Ann and Inverkip Streets etc.; Smoke Nuisance Act Water Supply, Greenock Report by Committee on the state of the Police Establishment in Greenock; memorial against Greenock Advertiser 24/09/1858 1 Bottleworks Water Supply, Greenock Drainage - contracts and expenditure; applications for superintendent of Police; repairs to Greenock Advertiser 22/10/1858 1 streets Water Supply, Greenock Accounts; repairs and improvements to streets; application for land at 6 Hole Farm to use as a Greenock Advertiser 20/10/1859 1 reservoir deferred until Shaw's Water asked to sell dam at Murdieston; public washing green; report on Shaw's Water and privilege pipes Water Supply, Greenock Contracts for levelling Eldon Street; estimates for Smith's Lane drain; causewaying to be carried Greenock Advertiser 18/04/1856 2 out Water Supply, Greenock Cost of installing drains; opening of Eldon Street - cost; dispute with Hoyle, Martin & Co; Greenock Advertiser 22/09/1859 1 allocating funds for drains; water from Murdieston Burn to West Dam Water Supply, Greenock Letters on supplying water: 3,6,13,17,24 and 27 October 1826 p2 Greenock Advertiser 03/10/1826 See Entry Water Supply, Greenock Improvements and repairs to streets; prosecution of offender of Nuisance Act; report of special Greenock Advertiser 21/01/1859 1 committee on police Water Supply, Greenock Advertisement for factories with water driven power supplied by Shaw's Water Company Greenock Advertiser 02/12/1825 3 Water Supply, Greenock Drainage of town; proposed building of 12 additional wells; report of sub-committee into Greenock Advertiser 17/02/1859 1 auditorship; strength of police force and cost Water Supply, Greenock Drainage of the town; employment of unemployed on street repairs, who should pay them; Greenock Advertiser 30/07/1858 1 report of Gas Committee Water Supply, Greenock Cost of laying footpaths; drainage; opening of Eldon Street; correspondence; Shaw's Water Greenock Advertiser 21/04/1859 1 claim against Trust; election of an auditor Water Supply, Greenock Letter from William Allison, Master of Works, replying to accusations by Mr Orr on drainage of Greenock Advertiser 07/12/1858 2 Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Duncan street - drainage; increase on police surgeon's salary; Government grant for police; Greenock Advertiser 30/06/1859 1 inspectorship of weights and measures; rails in streets; privilege pipes Water Supply, Greenock Special report of duties of police surgeon; repairs and improvements to streets; Shaw's Water Greenock Advertiser 21/07/1859 1 refuse to supply extra water Water Supply, Greenock Report of salaries committee; repairs to Upper Duncan Street; opening up of West Blackhall Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1855 1 Street Water Supply, Greenock Appointment of police superintendent Greenock Advertiser 02/11/1858 2 Water Supply, Greenock Sanitation and mortality rate; repairs and improvements to streets; salary increases for Greenock Advertiser 18/02/1864 1 Treasurer and Master of Works Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs and improvements; increase in salary of Inspector of Nuisances; application for Greenock Advertiser 20/12/1860 1 increase in police wages Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting to discuss amalgamation of posts of Superintendent of Police and Inspector of Greenock Advertiser 11/12/1862 1 Nuisances Water Supply, Greenock Superintendent of Police - payments; street improvements and repairs; gas committee and need Greenock Advertiser 18/12/1862 1 for gas storage Water Supply, Greenock Use of bricks in building drains; causewaying; quality of water supplied by Shaw's Water; new Greenock Advertiser 17/05/1860 1 gasometer Water Supply, Greenock Drains; street improvements and repairs; typhus outbreak Greenock Advertiser 27/02/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Proposed coal store for as Works; repairs and improvements to streets; proposed text of bill Greenock Advertiser 17/09/1863 1 Water Supply, Greenock Accounts Greenock Advertiser 08/10/1863 1 Water Supply, Greenock Annual accounts - criticisms to certain expenditure; street repairs and improvements; two bills Greenock Advertiser 22/10/1863 1 needed- 1 to buy Shaw's Water, another to embody usual police clauses for the management of the town Water Supply, Greenock Proposed esplanade - cost etc. Greenock Advertiser 03/11/1863 1 Water Supply, Greenock Accounts Greenock Advertiser 09/10/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Mortality rate and sanitation; street repairs and improvements; need for public washing green Greenock Advertiser 21/01/1864 2 3 Water Supply, Greenock Improvement and street repairs; well near St Andrew Square; mortality rate; improvement in gas Greenock Advertiser 21/08/1862 1 supply; Inspectorship of meters; foundation stone ceremony at new harbour Water Supply, Greenock Mortality report; repairs and improvements to streets Greenock Advertiser 22/01/1963 1 Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs and improvements; well in Cathcart Square; report on drains; appointment of gas Greenock Advertiser 18/04/1861 1 inspector Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting to consider recent report on the Gas Works Greenock Advertiser 02/06/1860 1 2 Water Supply, Greenock Widening of pavements; drainage; street cleaning and Statute Labour Trust Greenock Advertiser 21/06/1860 1 Water Supply, Greenock Opening of Johnston Street; causewaying of streets and cost involved; Gas Committee report; Greenock Advertiser 19/07/1860 1 public washing green Water Supply, Greenock Mortality rate; street repairs and improvements; Gas Committee report Greenock Advertiser 23/08/1860 1 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Flax mill dam to be filled up; new reservoir and water supply talks with Shaw's Water; covering Greenock Advertiser 20/09/1860 1 over of West Burn; payments of the Water Trust account Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs and improvements; report on privilege pipes; report on improvement and removal Greenock Advertiser 18/10/1960 1 of the Gas Works Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting to discuss proposal to build gasometer at Bottleworks Greenock Advertiser 03/11/1860 1 2 Water Supply, Greenock Report by committee on two proposed Bills; meeting with feuars regarding esplanade Greenock Advertiser 10/11/1863 2 Water Supply, Greenock Murdieston and Cowdenknowes dams are in need of a clean-up - Cllr J Boyd Greenock Telegraph 19/07/1983 6 Water Supply, Greenock Repairing of streets; clock in Mid Church spire; fire plugs for water hoses; contract for water Greenock Advertiser 01/03/1850 1 supply from Shaw's Water Co. Water Supply, Greenock State of Ann Street; opening up of East Regent Street; Magistrates and Council taken to Court Greenock Advertiser 22/03/1850 1 of Session by Mr McFie Water Supply, Greenock Water works committee report on new dam almost complete; contract for street cleaning Greenock Advertiser 19/04/1850 2 Water Supply, Greenock Conduit house broken into and water in reservoir drained - report incident Greenock Advertiser 26/06/1805 4 Water Supply, Greenock Article on need for a good water supply. Letter Greenock Advertiser 12/08/1803 4 Water Supply, Greenock Item on 'Boog's Well' - 5 November p12 Greenock Telegraph 23/10/1981 12 Water Supply, Greenock Signing of deed of sale of the Dyewood Mill on West Burn Mill; reduction in price of gas; new Greenock Advertiser 21/06/1850 3 street at Martha's Brae. Full details - 25 June p1 Water Supply, Greenock Report of Gas Works; West Burn - cost of cleaning and covering; police wage increase Greenock Advertiser 26/08/1853 1 Water Supply, Greenock Trustees resolve to discontinue supply of water given to public works Greenock Advertiser 26/05/1829 3 Water Supply, Greenock Annual statement of funds; street improvements and repairs; ground at St Thomas' Church Greenock Advertiser 23/10/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Blin Cuddy - who and what was it. Answer - 26 August p10 Greenock Telegraph 18/08/1983 8 Water Supply, Greenock Workers wanted to build new reservoir Greenock Advertiser 06/12/1805 1 Water Supply, Greenock Reviews of the water supply of Greenock and suggested water schemes Greenock Telegraph 16/01/1868 2 Water Supply, Greenock Action by Robert McFie & Co. against Water Trustees over permission given in 1847 to divert Greenock Advertiser 25/06/1850 2 water from Regent Street to their factory Water Supply, Greenock Letter from Shaw's Water Co to Trust freeing company from all encumbrances Greenock Advertiser 21/02/1867 1 Water Supply, Greenock Opening up of Martha Brae; paving of Cathcart Street; new street at west end of town; Lord Greenock Advertiser 31/05/1850 2 Ordinary decides in favour of community in case against Messrs McFie, dispute with Shaw's Water over supply to McFie; unlit streets Water Supply, Greenock Increase in clerk's salary at Gas Works; street repairs; Shaw's Water Greenock Advertiser 21/05/1863 1 Water Supply, Greenock Nuisances Committee; drains; police barracks Greenock Advertiser 17/04/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs and improvements; negotiations with Shaw's Water stopped; drains Greenock Advertiser 22/05/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Mortality rate; assessment rate; drains; street repairs and improvements Greenock Advertiser 26/06/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Mortality rate and measures to be taken to improve sanitary condition of the town; street Greenock Advertiser 17/07/1862 1 improvements; annual report of Gas Works Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Trustees of the Water Fund elected Greenock Advertiser 10/07/1821 3 Water Supply, Greenock Typhus fever - precautions, numbers of cases; drains and street repairs; Police Superannuation Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1862 1 fund Water Supply, Greenock Improvement in mortality rate; plans for esplanade; street improvements and repairs; proposal Greenock Advertiser 17/11/1864 1 to change police uniform Water Supply, Greenock Ownership of 2 acres at Falls No 10; instructions to finance committee; Gryffe Works Greenock Advertiser 30/11/1867 1 Water Supply, Greenock Petition for bringing in Shaw's Water Bill presented to Parliament Greenock Advertiser 22/02/1825 3 Water Supply, Greenock Mr Leslie's report; works, finance, committees; claim by Ballantyne, Adam and Rowan Greenock Telegraph 29/01/1868 1 2 Water Supply, Greenock Mr Leslie's report Greenock Telegraph 08/02/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock Correspondence re Mr Leslie's report Greenock Telegraph 29/02/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock Letters from Greenock Cotton Spinning Co; report of engineers and inspectors for the Gryffe Greenock Advertiser 11/03/1868 1 2 Works, payment of Mr Young Water Supply, Greenock Finance committee; payment to Mr Young Greenock Telegraph 15/04/1868 1 2 Water Supply, Greenock Further discussion on Mr Leslie's report. Special meeting to hear engineers' and contractors' Greenock Advertiser 01/02/1868 1 views on report - 8 Feb p2, again 13 Feb p1, 29 Feb p1; 2nd report by Mr Leslie - 7 March p2, again 12 March p1; reports of Mr Leslie 16 April p1 Water Supply, Greenock Balance sheet; dispute over account to Ballantyne, Adam & Rowan, sugar refiners; Greenock Advertiser 19/09/1867 1 compensation from Ayrshire Railway Co Water Supply, Greenock Purchase of Shaw's Water Co; clauses to deal with improvement of sanitary conditions; typhus Greenock Advertiser 18/03/1865 1 outbreak Water Supply, Greenock Mr Leslie to report on utilisation and economising on the Shaw's Water works; report given Greenock Telegraph 23/01/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock Rate of assessment; report on street cleaning; price for buying Shaw's Water; esplanade Greenock Advertiser 23/06/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock Widening of East Quay Lane; Gas Works accounts and report Greenock Advertiser 21/07/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock Drains in Jelly Street and other streets; contract with Shaw's Water due to low supplies in town Greenock Advertiser 18/09/1857 1 reservoirs; report of nuisance at Bottlework Water Supply, Greenock Street cleaning report; change of management of Gas Works; esplanade Greenock Advertiser 08/09/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock New Police Bill- again 17 Sept. p2, 20 Sept. p2, 24 Sept p2, 27 Sept p2, 1 Oct p2, 4 Oct p2, 8 Greenock Advertiser 13/09/1864 2 Oct p1, 11 Oct p2, 15 Oct p1 Water Supply, Greenock Accounts Greenock Advertiser 06/10/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock Mortality rate, sanitation and typhus outbreak; railway bills and effect on the town; street repairs Greenock Advertiser 22/12/1864 1 and improvements; salaries of police surgeon and deputy assessor Water Supply, Greenock Typhus cases; gas committee - new appointments; street improvements and repairs Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1865 1 Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs and improvements; sale of Gas Acts Greenock Advertiser 17/01/1861 1 Water Supply, Greenock List of 18 steams which were tapped when Loch Thom reservoir was brought into service Greenock Telegraph 15/07/1983 8 Water Supply, Greenock History; old works; water supplies; unlet falls and water power at Cartsburn Mill etc. Greenock Advertiser 17/10/1867 1 Water Supply, Greenock Street Repairs and improvements; sale of old police clothing; report on police, wages etc. Greenock Advertiser 21/12/1861 1 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Greenock Gas works and proposed extension Greenock Advertiser 03/04/1862 1 Water Supply, Greenock Mr Boag, smith, contravening smoke nuisance act; street repairs and improvements; report on Greenock Advertiser 21/03/1861 1 charges; deferring of building additional storage for gas; fountain in Cathcart Square Water Supply, Greenock Suggestions on how to prevent further spreading of cholera: - town should be divided into 8 Greenock Advertiser 18/09/1849 2 parts and ten extra medical men should be employed. Report of further meeting - 21 September p2/3 Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs and improvements; drainage report on Inspectorship of meters Greenock Advertiser 23/05/1861 1 Water Supply, Greenock Rate of assessment; report on repairs and improvements; report on inspectorship of meters. Greenock Advertiser 20/06/1861 1 Water Supply, Greenock Repairs and improvements of streets; duties of inspector of meters; tramway in Baker Street Greenock Advertiser 18/07/1861 1 Water Supply, Greenock Special meeting - unfiltered water; plan for economising the waste water of Loch Thom Greenock Telegraph 01/02/1868 1 2 Water Supply, Greenock Street repairs and improvements; negotiations with Shaw's Water to purchase works Greenock Advertiser 19/09/1861 2 Water Supply, Greenock Discussion with Sir Michael about connecting the Home Reservoir with the Whinhill Dam. Greenock Advertiser 22/08/1867 1 Crawford & Co, and Richardson & Co, both sugar refiners, request extra water supply. Article p2 Water Supply, Greenock Mr Leslie's second report Greenock Telegraph 09/03/1868 1 Water Supply, Greenock Mortality rate, sanitation and wages; street repairs and improvements4 Greenock Advertiser 19/05/1864 1 Water Supply, Greenock Report on various charges connected with Water Trust; street repairs and improvements; water Greenock Advertiser 21/02/1861 2 supply and privilege pipes Water Supply, Greenock Complete purchase of Shaw's Water works Greenock Advertiser 13/04/1867 2 Water Supply, Greenock Completion of take over of Shaw's Water. Appointment of officials Greenock Advertiser 18/04/1867 1 Water Supply, Greenock Tenders wanted for construction of two reservoirs, tunnel and other works Greenock Advertiser 25/04/1867 3 Water Supply, Greenock Continuation of pipe laying to supply Finnart Terrace; pressure of water supply; additional water Greenock Advertiser 18/07/1867 1 for sugarhouse of Blair, Reid and Steele; proposal to appoint resident engineer and 2 inspectors9 Water Supply, Greenock Revenue and expenditure of Water Trust, Gryffe reservoir - tender accepted - details Greenock Advertiser 23/05/1867 1 2 Water Supply, Greenock Petition for interdict to prevent the Water Trust to enter upon certain lands presented by Sir MR Greenock Advertiser 09/07/1867 2 Shaw Stewart. Dispute settled, Water Trust to give £8,000 inclusive to Sir MR Shaw Stewart. 11 July, 02 Water Supply, Greenock Alex Currie & Co, sugar refiners, apply for 20,000 galleons of water; transfer of water power Greenock Advertiser 20/06/1867 1 from the fan of the Cotton Mill; repairs to sluices Water Supply, Greenock Gryffe scheme; further meeting - appointment of engineer; terms for Cotton Mill's water supply; Greenock Advertiser 19/12/1867 1 renting of Cartsburn Mill - 21 Dec. p1 Water Supply, Greenock Drains account and cost of paving and causewaying Greenock Advertiser 22/08/1861 1 Water Supply, Kilmacolm Opening of new water works Greenock Telegraph 02/07/1900 2 Water Supply, Kilmacolm Water to be turned on in about 3 weeks Greenock Telegraph 23/07/1978 2 Water Supply, Kilmacolm Report on water supply, again Telegraph 2nd Sept p3 Greenock Telegraph 19/08/1882 3 Water Supply, Kilmacolm Opening of new water works, again 15th Aug p2. Telegraph also 16th Aug p3 Greenock Telegraph 07/08/1878 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Water Supply, Kilmacolm Inspection of land where additional water will be brought to village Greenock Telegraph 06/10/1876 3 Water Supply, Kilmacolm Proposed extension of the water works Greenock Telegraph 15/07/1885 3 Water Supply, Kilmacolm Article on new water supply Greenock Advertiser 09/08/1878 3 Water Supply, Port Proposal to extend water system. Greenock Telegraph 10/05/1918 2 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Article on progress of new water works. Greenock Telegraph 13/08/1879 3 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Item on town's water supply and pollution. Greenock Telegraph 08/11/1875 3 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Opening of water works near Leperstone Farm - details. Greenock Advertiser 17/10/1867 2 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Completion of Auchendores Contract. Greenock Telegraph 27/04/1881 4 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Article on progress of new water works. Greenock Advertiser 13/08/1879 3 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Opening of new Reservoir. Greenock Telegraph 03/09/1945 2 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Foundation - stone ceremony of new Reservoir at Finlaystone. Greenock Advertiser 05/07/1866 2 Glasgow Water Supply, Port Opening of new waterworks. Greenock Telegraph 10/06/1910 2 Glasgow Water Supply, Port New works at Ainston officially opened. Greenock Telegraph 02/01/1919 2 Glasgow Water Supply, Wemyss Application to Greenock over defective water supply Greenock Telegraph 19/01/1914 2 Bay Water Trust Sanitary Appointment of Sanitary Committee by Water Trust. Greenock Advertiser 30/03/1847 2 Committee Water Trust Sanitary Report of Sanitary Committee of the Water Trust. Greenock Advertiser 18/01/1848 2 Committee Water Trustees Election Greenock Advertiser 17/11/1848 2 Watt College, Greenock Watt Navigation and Engineering School - article and photographs opening of extension - 20th Greenock Telegraph 14/01/1935 6 June p4 photographs - 21st June p4 Watt Library, Greenock Letter criticising neglect of building Greenock Advertiser 15/11/1844 2 Watt Library, Greenock Collection of Hamish MacCunn letter from notables acquired by the Watt - item Greenock Telegraph 16/11/1982 5 Watt Library, Greenock James Watt Inn in discussion on siting of building which is to take stock of Greenock Library. Greenock Advertiser 12/08/1833 2 Original site at Watt head unsuitable - suggestion that it should be situated in a square - plans of frontage and interior by Mr Blare, London Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watt Library, Greenock Item on the YOP programme to reorganise the old books held by the Watt Greenock Telegraph 09/07/1980 7 Watt Library, Greenock Grant given by the British Library to help with the cost of rebinding some of the old books Greenock Telegraph 06/08/1980 8 Watt Library, Greenock Library and McLean Museum to have major repairs to their roofs Greenock Telegraph 05/12/1979 8 Watt Library, Greenock Item on Shakespeare's copy of Plutarch Greenock Advertiser 07/10/1871 2 Watt Library, Greenock Mr Blore, the architect to supervise the building, leaves London Greenock Advertiser 26/03/1835 2 Watt Library, Greenock Course of lectures on botany Greenock Advertiser 12/03/1850 3 Watt Library, Greenock Committee meets to discuss building in honour of James Watt Greenock Advertiser 07/03/1835 2 Watt Library, Greenock Still uncertainty above siting of Watt Monument Greenock Advertiser 19/09/1833 2 Watt Library, Greenock Letter enquiring into progress made on choosing site for monument Greenock Advertiser 09/02/1835 2 Watt Library, Greenock Counter statement, to that which appeared in the 'Intelligence', defending delays in building Greenock Advertiser 15/08/1833 3 suitable memorial to James Watt. Further article - 19 Aug p3 Watt Library, Greenock Transfer of books from public library completed Greenock Advertiser 29/06/1837 2 Watt Library, Greenock Item on Shakespeare's copy of Plutarch Greenock Telegraph 06/10/1871 3 Watt Library, Greenock Contracts agreed - work begins on the two wings of the complex Greenock Advertiser 23/03/1849 2 Watt Library, Greenock Article on Library, its history, bequests, etc Greenock Advertiser 07/12/1849 2 Watt Library, Greenock Course of lectures to be held in new hall - proceeds to be used to form fund for payment of Greenock Advertiser 05/02/1850 2 furnishings and fittings. Additions include reading room, committee and lecture rooms and librarian's house Watt Library, Greenock Tickets for course of lectures almost all taken Greenock Advertiser 22/02/1850 2 Watt Library, Greenock Article on building and report of first lecture in the course Greenock Advertiser 26/02/1850 2 Watt Library, Greenock Site of proposed library almost certain to be West Blackhall Street Greenock Advertiser 19/12/1833 2 Watt Library, Greenock Foundation stone to be laid with full Masonic honours Greenock Advertiser 06/07/1835 3 Watt Library, Greenock Item on North's Plutarch Greenock Advertiser 09/01/1872 2 Watt Library, Greenock Watt Library acquire the Gourock Advertiser from 1915 to 1980 Greenock Telegraph 24/03/1981 5 Watt Library, Greenock Bazaar to be held in Christmas week - article on library and additions to complex Greenock Advertiser 20/09/1833 2 Watt Library, Greenock Article on the Youth Opportunities scheme to restore old books Greenock Telegraph 20/03/1980 10 Watt Library, Greenock Exhibition of Glasgow Art Union in Library Greenock Advertiser 30/01/1852 2 Watt Library, Greenock Second series of lectures Greenock Advertiser 24/01/1851 2 Watt Library, Greenock Meeting of shareholders to elect committee of management Greenock Advertiser 07/10/1876 2 Watt Library, Greenock Meeting of shareholders to elect committee of management Greenock Telegraph 07/10/1876 2 Watt Library, Greenock Ground at side to be laid out as Botanic Gardens Greenock Advertiser 05/11/1850 2 Watt Library, Greenock Item Greenock Telegraph 01/12/1978 13 Watt Library, Greenock Arbitration case over sum of money with Town Chamberlain Greenock Telegraph 25/01/1906 4 Watt Library, Greenock Further item on North's Plutarch supposed to have belonged to Shakespeare Greenock Telegraph 09/01/1872 3 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watt Library, Greenock Article on bazaar to be held to raise money to pay off debt on Watt building - again 15 July p2 Greenock Advertiser 12/07/1853 2 Watt Library, Greenock Meeting of ladies to discuss bazaar to be held to raise money to pay off debt on building Greenock Advertiser 25/06/1852 2 Watt Library, Greenock Bazaar - details of bazaar to be held soon. Again - 27 Dec p2 Details 30 Dec p2 Greenock Advertiser 20/12/1853 2 Watt Library, Greenock Report of Ladies Bazaar Greenock Advertiser 03/01/1854 2 Watt Library, Greenock Article on the beginnings of the Greenock Library in 1783: 5 Feb p5; 12 Feb p5; 19 Feb p5 Greenock Telegraph 29/01/1983 4 Watt Library, Greenock Donation list of Parliamentary papers given to Library by M Dunlop Greenock Advertiser 16/10/1860 2 Watt Library, Greenock Item on Shakespeare's copy of Plutarch Greenock Advertiser 10/10/1871 2 Watt Library, Greenock Details of donation given by late Robert Buchanan Greenock Advertiser 16/12/1871 2 Watt Library, Greenock Centenary of the Institution - history and some of the celebrities who have visited the building Greenock Telegraph 24/08/1935 4 Watt Library, Greenock Meeting to discuss claim of £300 held by Town Chamberlain Greenock Telegraph 12/01/1905 2 Watt Library, Greenock Repairs to be carried out to the towers at the Watt Library Greenock Telegraph 08/02/1982 6 Watt Memorial and Article on the Watt Memorial Engineering and Navigation School Library Greenock Telegraph 25/06/1908 5 Navigation School Library, Greenock Watt Memorial School, Item on the Watt Memorial School. Greenock Telegraph 08/07/1956 7 Greenock Watt Monument, Stone shaving petrified ivy taken from new harbour. Donated to museum at Watt Monument. Greenock Advertiser 17/09/1850 2 Greenock Watt, James Reminiscences by the late Robert Hart, Glasgow Greenock Telegraph 14/02/1903 3 Watt, James Meeting to consider gift from Andrew Carnegie. 7 Jan p2, 10 Jan p3 Greenock Telegraph 05/01/1903 2 Watt, James Photograph of an old pumping engine now in the McLean Museum Greenock Telegraph 03/01/1927 4 Watt, James With the demolition of Heathfield Hall, McLean Museum apply for some of Watt's relics - Greenock Telegraph 23/11/1925 2 unsuccessful Watt, James List of subscribers to statue Greenock Advertiser 19/11/1824 3 Watt, James Celebration of anniversary - 5 Sept p3&4 Greenock Telegraph 04/09/1919 2 Watt, James Centenary - articles and photographs Greenock Telegraph 23/08/1919 2 3 Watt, James Article on the history of the Watt Library Greenock Telegraph 21/02/1919 4 Watt, James Drawing of James Watt Memorial Building and description. Drawing of statue - 1 June p2; Greenock Telegraph 30/05/1908 3 opening ceremony - 2 June p4; drawing of ceremony - 6 June p3 Watt, James Drawing of the memorial to be built at the corner of William & Dalrymple Streets Greenock Telegraph 11/06/1906 4 Watt, James Review of Andrew Carnegie's book on James Watt Greenock Telegraph 11/05/1905 2 Watt, James Details of gift of relics given to Council to be honoured in Watt Memorial Greenock Telegraph 08/06/1907 3 Watt, James Unpublished correspondence 3 Feb p4; 12 Feb; 23 Feb Greenock Telegraph 20/01/1903 2 Watt, James Article to commemorate his birth Greenock Telegraph 19/01/1928 4 Watt, James Article on James Watt and his family by John Donald Greenock Telegraph 02/05/1927 4 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watt, James Extract from 'Life of Mary Ann Schimmelpennick' on Watt, his partner and family Greenock Advertiser 07/01/1859 1 Watt, James Amount towards statue stands at £1,300 Greenock Advertiser 16/12/1825 3 Watt, James Widow of James Watt visits Greenock Greenock Advertiser 18/08/1826 2 Watt, James Son of James Watt visits town Greenock Advertiser 25/08/1826 3 Watt, James Meeting of subscribers to monument. Report of meeting - 1 Sept p2 Greenock Advertiser 29/08/1826 3 Watt, James Article on family and decision to give sum of money to build a public library Greenock Advertiser 22/12/1826 3 Watt, James Public dinner to celebrate anniversary of birth of Watt Greenock Advertiser 16/01/1827 3 Watt, James Article on James Watt and his involvement with town reservoirs Greenock Advertiser 11/11/1845 2 Watt, James Description of Chantry statue placed in Handsworth Church Greenock Advertiser 14/09/1827 2 Watt, James Suggestions by Andrew Carnegie regarding proposed Watt Memorial Greenock Telegraph 11/09/1903 2 Watt, James Bust of James Watt by DW Stevenson for Wallace Monument Greenock Telegraph 10/09/1888 3 Watt, James Photograph showing view of James Watt and places associated with him Greenock Telegraph 23/08/1919 2 & 6 Watt, James Biography and drawings Greenock Telegraph 19/01/1898 3 Watt, James 'James Watt as an inventor' by Dr HS Hele Shaw Greenock Telegraph 18/01/1902 3 Watt, James Text of speech by Lord Kelvin on 'James Watt' Greenock Telegraph 14/06/1901 1 Watt, James Chantry bust presented to Watt Memorial School by Mrs ES Dunlop Coats Greenock Telegraph 26/05/1948 4 Watt, James Photograph of school to which he went Greenock Telegraph 03/02/1949 5 Watt, James Item on his last visit to Greenock in 1815 Greenock Telegraph 05/11/1981 12 Watt, James Discussion on proposed monument Greenock Advertiser 24/08/1881 2 Watt, James Proposed national monument - meeting Greenock Telegraph 27/12/1886 2 Watt, James Item on proposed memorial Greenock Telegraph 12/01/1887 2 Watt, James Biography of James Watt, father of the inventor Greenock Advertiser 23/08/1838 1 Watt, James Drawing of Watt Monumental Cairn and also tower suggested by George Williamson Greenock Telegraph 10/05/1894 3 Watt, James Demolition of the house built by Watt's father and later sold by him in 1804. The house is 48 Greenock Telegraph 27/04/1927 2 Shaw Street. Photograph of property: 13 May p4 Watt, James James Watt Memorial - article Greenock Telegraph 07/11/1889 3 Watt, James Article and photograph of the Watt Navigation and Engineering School Greenock Telegraph 14/06/1935 6 Watt, James Andrew Carnegie willing to give £10,000 for memorial Greenock Telegraph 30/12/1902 2 Watt, James Soapstone carving of James Watt found in the archive material at James Watt College Greenock Telegraph 26/05/1983 8 Watt, James Removal of ancestors from old Kirk graveyard to the Greenock Cemetery Greenock Telegraph 23/04/2006 2 Watt, James Discussion on proposed monument Greenock Telegraph 24/08/1881 2 Watt, James Plans to rebuild memorial cairn to commemorate bicentenary Greenock Telegraph 25/11/1935 4 Watt, James Photograph of a pipe organ which he built in 1762 Greenock Telegraph 10/01/1936 6 Watt, James Bicentenary celebrations - 15 Jan p4; 16 Jan p2, 4; 176 Jan p8; 18 Jan p6, 7; 20 Jan p2, 4 Greenock Telegraph 14/01/1936 2 4 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watt, James Article Gourock Times 10/01/1936 1 Watt, James Photograph of reconstructed cairn Greenock Telegraph 03/11/1936 4 Watt, James McLean Museum offered one of Watt's early steam engines by Birmingham Canal Navigation Greenock Telegraph 16/01/1948 5 Co Watt, James Celebrations of the Centenary of the Watt Monument Library Greenock Telegraph 19/01/1935 3 Watt, James Article on his successful battle to be granted patent rights Greenock Telegraph 27/11/1934 5 Watt, James Essays on James Watt - medal winner's essays Greenock Telegraph 10/11/1909 1 Watt, James Article on the Watt family and their grave stones in West Churchyard Greenock Advertiser 21/10/1821 3 Watt, James Biography taken from the 'Athenaeum' Greenock Advertiser 31/12/1858 1 Watt, James Suggestion to raise money for a monument to Watt Greenock Advertiser 19/01/1870 4 Watt, James Inscription on Chantry statue in Westminster Abbey Greenock Advertiser 15/06/1835 3 Watt, James Article on proposed monument Greenock Advertiser 01/08/1854 2 Watt, James Continued support for Watt statue Greenock Advertiser 12/11/1824 3 Watt, James Testimonial to James Watt Greenock Advertiser 05/10/1824 2 3 Watt, James Contributions towards statue Greenock Advertiser 01/10/1824 2 Watt, James Extract from Robert Swiles' book on James Watt Greenock Advertiser 29/10/1858 1 Watt, James Letter re James Watt statue with suggestions of places for the statue to be put Greenock Advertiser 16/07/1824 3 Watt, James List of subscribers to statue Greenock Advertiser 03/05/1825 3 Watt, James Detailed account of dinner - John Galt speaker. Letter Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1824 3 Watt, James Item from 'The Builder' on proposed Tower to honour Watt Greenock Advertiser 01/02/1859 2 Watt, James Article about meeting to discuss proposal of statute Greenock Advertiser 23/07/1823 2 3 Watt, James Dinner to celebrate anniversary of birthday of James watt. Report of dinner - 20 January p3 Greenock Advertiser 16/01/1824 2 3 Watt, James Dinner to celebrate his birthday on 19 January at Tontine Greenock Advertiser 12/01/1821 3 Watt, James Obituary Greenock Advertiser 07/09/1819 3 Watt, James Death of James Watt at Heathfield Greenock Advertiser 31/08/1819 3 Watt, James James Watt's father - first in a series of letter; again 11 Jan p1; 21 Jan p1; 1 Feb p1 Greenock Advertiser 04/01/1853 1 Watt, James Magistrates call a meeting to raise subscriptions for a monument to James Watt Greenock Advertiser 13/07/1824 2 3 Watt, James Report of dinner in honour of birth of James Watt Greenock Advertiser 23/01/1827 3 Watt, James Review of M Arago's 'Life of Watt' Greenock Advertiser 09/08/1839 1 Watt, James Biography of James Watt. Again 23 Nov p1 Greenock Advertiser 09/11/1838 1 Watt, James Statue by Chantry in place in Watt Building - details of motifs on base Greenock Advertiser 12/10/1838 2 Watt, James Letter - any monument to Watt should not be hidden away Greenock Advertiser 04/07/1836 2 Watt, James Article on portraits of James Watt and the artists Greenock Telegraph 06/07/1877 2 Watt, James Letter about Watt monument first put forward in 1825 and collection of £16,000 - with son of Greenock Advertiser 25/10/1832 3 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watt offering to build a library - ground offered - Money invested as disputes over using money for library Watt, James Charity visits Greenock to discuss placing of James Watt Statue Greenock Advertiser 24/05/1825 3 Watt, James Meeting of subscribers to Watt monument in Edinburgh Greenock Advertiser 22/04/1851 1 Watt, James National Testimonial - progress report Greenock Advertiser 11/07/1856 2 Watt, James Extract from a New York paper on Greenock's proposal to erect monument to Watt Greenock Advertiser 22/04/1856 2 Watt, James Subscription to be opened in Manchester to build a statue to Watt Greenock Advertiser 14/12/1855 2 Watt, James Biography; again 20 April p4 Greenock Advertiser 16/04/1855 4 Watt, James National monument - letter from Liverpool Architectural Society on committee's idea to build Greenock Advertiser 21/11/1854 2 monument from stones from around the world Watt, James Proposal to build Watt Monument with stones from all parts of the world Greenock Advertiser 30/06/1854 2 Watt, James Site for proposed National Monument to James Watt. Report of unveiling ceremony - 16 May Greenock Advertiser 09/05/1854 2 p2; 19 May p2 Watt, James Watt statue in Edinburgh to be inaugurated Greenock Advertiser 02/05/1854 2 Watt, James Item on statue in Adam Square, Edinburgh Greenock Advertiser 13/01/1854 2 Watt, James Biography from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Also 19 Nov p1 Greenock Advertiser 16/11/1824 1 Watt, James Extract from 'Memorials of James Watt' by George Williamson. Copy sent to Queen Victoria - 10 Greenock Advertiser 30/09/1856 1 Oct p2 Watt, James Article on proposed monument Greenock Advertiser 04/02/1859 2 Watt, James 126 anniversary of his birth, usual dinner held by James Watt Club Greenock Advertiser 21/01/1862 2 Watt, James Letter refuting claims that Watt was not born in Greenock Greenock Advertiser 02/02/1847 1 Watt, James Details of positioning of Chantry's statue of James Watt in George Square Glasgow. Description Greenock Advertiser 19/06/1832 3 of statue Watt, James Brief biography Greenock Advertiser 17/08/1847 3 Watt, James Proposal to put statue to James Watt. Sculptor to be Mr Slater and statue to be in front of Greenock Advertiser 23/09/1853 2 4 entrance to School of Art; and 27 Sept p1 Watt, James One of Watt's engines, the 2nd built by Boulton & Watt, is still in working order at Combe, Greenock Advertiser 23/03/1861 2 Delafield & Co's brewery, Longacre - details Watt, James Monument to James Watt in Edinburgh is an old house in Adam Square, giving accommodation Greenock Advertiser 25/11/1851 2 to 'School of Arts' Watt, James Extract from 'Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpennick' on Watt's personality Greenock Advertiser 06/05/1858 2 Watt, James Unveiling of statue of James Watt ion Birmingham Greenock Advertiser 06/10/1868 3 Watt, James Further contributions to proposed Watt Monument Greenock Advertiser 26/06/1860 2 Watt, James Brief biography Greenock Telegraph 10/11/1870 3 Watt, James Type and site of proposed monument Greenock Advertiser 02/09/1873 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Watt, James 140th anniversary of the birth of James Watt - dinner in Borland's Temperance Hotel Greenock Telegraph 20/01/1876 2 Watt, James Council discuss Watt Memorial in the Cemetery Greenock Telegraph 08/03/1876 3 Watt, James Extract on the career of Dr John Roebuck, Watt's early partner Greenock Advertiser 22/12/1863 2 Watt, James Item on 'Watt's first steam engine' at Bardsley (photographs in archives) Greenock Advertiser 29/09/1870 1 Watt, James (artist) Item on local Port Glasgow artist Greenock Telegraph 09/07/1954 5 Watt, James (artist) Local artist was a painting bought by Prince Philip. Painting called 'Fitting out, Greenock' Greenock Telegraph 25/07/1980 13 Watt, James (artist) Reproduction of his painting of Greenock 1975 Greenock Telegraph 01/05/1975 8 Watt, James (brewer) Item on the Watt family who took over the brewery in Cartsdyke Greenock Telegraph 07/09/1982 5 Watt, James Jr. Obituary notice of James Watt's son. James. Again 20 June p1 Greenock Advertiser 16/06/1848 3 Watt, John Elder son of Thomas Watt also 20 June 1851 p1 Greenock Advertiser 10/06/1857 1 Watt, John Item on his chart of the Clyde Gourock Times 25/09/1936 4 Watt, John Article on John Watt and his nephew who drew the map of the Clyde Greenock Advertiser 12/04/1842 2 Watt, Thomas Biographical articles on James Watt's ancestors Greenock Telegraph 16/10/1962 3 Watt, Thomas Biography: again 10 June p1; 20 June p1 Greenock Advertiser 06/06/1851 1 Watt, Thomas Biography of Thomas Watt, grandfather of James Watt Greenock Advertiser 12/07/1838 2 Watt, Thomas Item on restored tombstone of Thomas Watt, his wife, James Watt Senior, his wife and son Greenock Telegraph 10/06/1903 2 John Watters, Provost John Sudden death of former provost Greenock Telegraph 21/11/1970 7 Waverley Hotel, Photograph of the Waverley Temperance Hotel in West Blackhall Street Greenock Telegraph 31/03/1983 20 Greenock Wax Works Collection of wax works including Royalty, Wellington etc. on display. Greenock Advertiser 04/07/1817 1 Wax Works Exhibition of wax works of famous personalities at theatre. Greenock Advertiser 02/10/1829 3 Weather District suffers damage caused by 80 mph gales Greenock Advertiser 09/01/1958 7 Weather Gales cause massive damage to property in the district Greenock Telegraph 03/03/1982 1 Weather Winds of 160 mph hit Inverclyde area. Damage widespread but minor Greenock Telegraph 01/02/1983 1 Weather Cold weather which began in December still continues Greenock Telegraph 08/01/1982 11 Weather Torrential rain brings flooding to Greenock and Gourock Greenock Telegraph 04/01/1980 1 Weather 80 mph gales cause havoc in Inverclyde. Structural damage - 18 Dec p9 Greenock Telegraph 17/12/1979 1 Weather Severe flooding hits Inverclyde after recent downpours Greenock Telegraph 20/09/1983 7 Weather Inverclyde hit by torrential rain causing widespread flooding Greenock Advertiser 15/11/1978 1 Weather Report of hurricane - extensive damage to property Greenock Advertiser 29/03/1842 2 Weather Hurricane hits Clyde - damage severe. Photograph: 16 Jan p4; relief fund open p6, 7; 17 Jan Greenock Telegraph 15/01/1968 1 7 p7; troops arrive - 19 Jan p9; Bigger storm grant wanted - 26 Jan p9 Weather Article on the severe floods of 1912 Greenock Telegraph 11/09/1970 7 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Weather Rain storm causes flooding and damage to property in the District Greenock Telegraph 08/09/1958 5 Weather District returns to normal after hurricane force winds Greenock Telegraph 21/11/1981 1 Weather Report of the heavy snowfalls in January 1940 in Gourock Gourock Times 17/02/1978 4 Weather Heavy snow storm causes chaos in the town of Gourock. Gourock Times 09/02/1940 3 Weather Renaming ceremony of the weather ship 'Weather Monitor' to be known now as 'Admiral Greenock Telegraph 27/05/1977 13 Beaufort' Weather Severe blizzards cause 8ft snowdrifts = Cut blocked - water pipes frozen Greenock Telegraph 13/03/1947 2 Weather Worst flooding in 50 years - report and photographs - 10 Aug p4A Greenock Telegraph 09/08/1961 4 5 Weather Greenock hit by 85 mph gales - Fleming, Reid & Co's mill severely damaged Greenock Telegraph 19/10/1935 2 Weather Pre-fabs lose roofs in 90 mph gales - shipping affected Greenock Telegraph 16/01/1954 5 Weather Item and photographs on the local 'observatory' at Prospecthill Greenock Telegraph 05/05/1950 5 Weather Photographs of the partial eclipse Greenock Telegraph 14/04/1979 13 Weather Photograph showing extract of flooding in Greenock after thunderstorm Greenock Telegraph 29/07/1947 5 Weather Heavy snow storm causes chaos throughout the district Gourock Times 09/02/1940 3 Weather Weatherships Admirals Fitzroy and Beaufort to leave for the breakers yard Greenock Telegraph 15/01/1982 10 Weather Severe gale destroys pre-fab Greenock Telegraph 22/12/1954 5 Weather Torrential downpours - many houses wrecked as 11/2 inches of rain falls in 3 hours. Greenock Telegraph 03/10/1927 2 Photographs - 5 Oct p4 Weather Severe gale: extensive damage to property - one man killed, many injured Greenock Telegraph 29/01/1927 2 Weather Photographs and report of flooding in Greenock Greenock Telegraph 06/08/1912 4 Weather Severe gale in Gourock, Greenock and Port Glasgow - great deal of damage to property Greenock Telegraph 06/11/1911 2 Weather Town hit by gale; two dead and many injured, damage to property Greenock Telegraph 27/10/1936 2 Weather 85 mph gales kill one man, while pre-fabs lose roofs and shipping driven ashore Greenock Telegraph 20/12/1949 7 Weaver and Tailor's Payment of final dividend Greenock Advertiser 03/09/1830 3 Society, Greenock Weaver and Tailor's Meeting at Crawfordsdyke to discuss Corn Laws. Report of meeting - 10 March 1815 Greenock Advertiser 07/03/1815 1 Society, Greenock Weaver and Tailor's Meeting to consider dissolving society Greenock Advertiser 20/04/1830 3 Society, Greenock Weights and Measures Within the town must be Standard as authorised by the Act - penalties imposed Greenock Advertiser 20/06/1826 3 Weights and Measures Magistrates examine weights used by retailers in town Greenock Advertiser 05/10/1830 2 Weights and Measures Meeting to discuss best way of implementing weights and measures act. Letter from R Wallace Greenock Advertiser 09/03/1835 2 12 March p36 Weights and Measures After 20 June milk will be sold by Imperial Standard measure in Greenock Greenock Advertiser 16/06/1826 2 Weir, Daniel Article Greenock Telegraph 19/10/1936 4 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Weir, Daniel Biography of Greenock's early historian Greenock Telegraph 02/11/1963 5 Weir, Daniel Advertisement publicizing Daniel Weir History of Greenock. Greenock Advertiser 10/07/1829 3 Welfare Plans to help battered wives in Inverclyde by the Gryffe Women's Aid Refuge in Kilmacolm; 22 Greenock Telegraph 08/09/1983 1 Sept p15; 3 Oct p6; 13 Oct p13; 15 Nov p6 Well Park, Greenock A Band hired to play in Well Park every evening for a week's trial. Greenock Advertiser 14/07/1854 3 Well Park, Greenock Photograph showing view of Greenock: looking over Well Park, down Dalrymple Street towards Greenock Telegraph 31/03/1938 6 the west Well Park, Greenock Sir Michael R. Shaw Stewart's gift of Well Park to be rent free perpetually. Greenock Advertiser 05/09/1851 2 Well Park, Greenock Stewart Murray's plans for Well Park to Council and Sir M. R. Shaw Stewart who will include Greenock Advertiser 20/04/1852 2 Eastern range of terraces and that Lynedoch St. to be continued past Mansion House Gates. Well Park, Greenock Work to begin on restoring the fountain in Well Park. Greenock Telegraph 07/11/1970 9 Well Park, Greenock Photographs of Well Park improvements. Greenock Telegraph 14/06/1926 4 Well Park, Greenock Sketch of the new layout of Well Park. Greenock Telegraph 30/03/1925 4 Well Park, Greenock Work on repairing the old well at Wellpark begins - article and photograph. Greenock Telegraph 07/10/1971 6 Well Park, Greenock Gift of Well Park to Town by Sir Michael R. Shaw Stewart. Greenock Advertiser 25/04/1851 2 Well Park, Greenock Planting of trees and shrubs in Well Park, east End Park and along Regent St. Greenock Advertiser 21/09/1852 2 Wellington Bowling Club Item on Wellington Club which won Scottish Bowling Assoc. Championship in 1909.Q Greenock Telegraph 19/08/1983 10 Wellington Park, Introduction of athletics to Wellington Park. Greenock Advertiser 08/08/1854 2 Greenock Wellington Park, Grant of £3,000 towards the cost of constructing new playing fields at Wellington Park. Greenock Telegraph 05/09/1946 2 Greenock Wellpark Church, To close doors after almost 240 years, future of the building uncertain. Article on history: 9th Greenock Telegraph 08/03/1979 10 Greenock March p10 Wellpark Church, History of Wellpark Church and its congregation Greenock Telegraph 24/10/1959 4 Greenock Wellpark Church, Article on the proposal to use the building to harness the wind power Greenock Telegraph 26/04/1980 9 Greenock Wellpark Church, Wellpark may become a leisure and recreation centre gets Councillors blessing: 12th June p10 Greenock Telegraph 09/05/1980 15 Greenock Wellpark Church, Last service to be held on 27th May Greenock Telegraph 06/04/1979 15 Greenock Wellpark Church, Opposition to proposed sale of Wellpark Manse. Greenock Telegraph 05/02/1919 2 Greenock Wellpark Church, Roof of new church at Wellpark to be finished before winter. Mason work by Mr. Innes, Greenock Telegraph 22/09/1876 Greenock Skelmorlie, Architects Renison & Scott, Paisley. Wellpark Church, Roof of new church at Wellpark to be finished before winter. Mason work by Mr. Innes, Greenock Advertiser 23/09/1876 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Greenock Skelmorlie, Architects Renison & Scott, Paisley. Wellpark Church, History of Wellpark Church. Greenock Telegraph 11/05/1904 4 Greenock Wellpark Church, Letter about new Wellpark Church. Greenock Telegraph 10/02/1876 3 Greenock Wellpark Established: Opening of Wellpark Established Church. Greenock Telegraph 31/12/1877 3 Greenock Wellpark Free Church, Spire of Wellpark Free Church completed. Greenock Advertiser 02/06/1854 2 Greenock Wellpark Free Church, Wellpark Free Church: new bell cast by Duff & Sons. Greenock Advertiser 24/12/1867 2 Greenock Wellpark Free Church, Re: opening of Wellpark Free Church after alteration and improvement. Greenock Telegraph 13/08/1888 2 Greenock Wellpark West Church, Centenary of Wellpark West Church Greenock Telegraph 06/12/1975 7 Greenock Wellpark West Church, Under the 'Mears Plan' the Wellpark West Church would be demolished Greenock Telegraph 30/09/1948 4 Greenock Wellpark West Church, No decision taken over the future of Wellpark West Greenock Telegraph 17/06/1982 12 Greenock Wells, Greenock Mystery well found in Bank Street - details and photograph Greenock Telegraph 06/09/1973 11 Wells, Greenock History of the Long well at the junction of Duff and Dalrymple Streets Greenock Telegraph 29/11/1975 12 Wells, Greenock Article and photographs on the well in Longwell Close Greenock Telegraph 28/01/1958 5 Wells, Greenock Photograph of well shaft discovered on site of new Joy Sullivan factory at Cappielow Greenock Telegraph 15/02/1950 5 Wells, Greenock Photograph of discovered well in East Hamilton Street Greenock Telegraph 03/03/1948 5 Wemyss Bay Short history and description Greenock Advertiser 12/08/1853 2 Wemyss Bay New Hotel to be let furnished - details Greenock Advertiser 02/03/1847 3 Wemyss Bay Appeal for more play areas Gourock Times 15/08/1975 1 Wemyss Bay Clark & bell, Glasgow - successful in designs for laying out Wemyss Bay as a marine village. Greenock Advertiser 03/10/1845 2 Plans include a hotel Wemyss Bay Many buildings completed; stone pier finished also hotel Greenock Advertiser 03/03/1846 2 Wemyss Bay Robert Wallace and James Alexander meet to discuss proposal to build villas and landing pier Greenock Advertiser 16/09/1845 2 for steamers Wemyss Bay Lithographic sketch of Low Finnock purchased by C Wilson & Brown. Description of property Greenock Advertiser 19/07/1850 4 Wemyss Bay Facts and features by TG Snoddy Greenock Telegraph 06/11/1936 7 Wemyss Bay Plans to build recreational and social centre for Inverkip and Wemyss Bay Greenock Telegraph 11/06/1977 7 Wemyss Bay Plans to turn 17 acres of wood and scrubland into a leisure area Greenock Telegraph 15/04/1980 6 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Wemyss Bay Article on Kelly Bay and the new developments in the area Greenock Advertiser 05/09/1848 2 Wemyss Bay Community Possible sites discussed with the favourite being the site next to the school Greenock Telegraph 10/05/1983 6 Centre Wemyss Bay Community Only suitable site for a community hall is on ground next to the primary school Greenock Telegraph 05/07/1983 7 Centre Wemyss Bay Community District Council blamed for not providing badly-needed community facilities Greenock Telegraph 06/04/1983 9 Centre Wemyss Bay Community Hopes that the proposed community centre will include a health clinic Greenock Telegraph 25/11/1983 14 Centre Wemyss Bay Hotel Ferry service to steamers started by David Cook of Wemyss Bay Hotel Greenock Advertiser 28/03/1856 3 Wemyss Bay Hotel Wemyss Bay Hotel Greenock Advertiser 11/08/1846 3 Wemyss Bay Hotel David Cook, owner of the Wemyss Bay Hotel, gives price list Greenock Advertiser 20/06/1848 3 Wemyss Bay Hydropathic Wemyss Bay Hydropathic Co - first general meeting Greenock Telegraph 11/09/1874 3 Co. Wemyss Bay Park Public Park planned for Wemyss Bay Greenock Telegraph 12/08/1975 6 Wemyss Bay Pier C Wilson Brown arranges to have wooden pier built to replace one lost during gales in 1856 Greenock Advertiser 17/07/1857 2 Wemyss Bay Pier Pier rebuilt at a cost of £220,000 - photograph Greenock Telegraph 06/07/1979 11 Wemyss Bay Pier Fire destroys pier at Wemyss Bay - damage estimated at £15,000 - 22 Sept p2 Greenock Telegraph 21/09/1900 2 Wemyss Bay Pier Photograph of the pier and station at Wemyss Bay Gourock Times 09/05/1975 6 Wemyss Bay Pier Severe damage to pier caused by fire Greenock Telegraph 02/03/1977 9 Wemyss Bay pier Photograph showing view of rebuilt Wemyss Bay pier Greenock Telegraph 06/07/1979 11 Wemyss Bay Pier Rebuilding of pier after fire damage Greenock Telegraph 11/09/1978 6 Wemyss Bay Pier Photograph showing view of Clyde Steamers at Wemyss Bay Pier Greenock Telegraph 05/09/1962 4 Wemyss Bay Pier Before and after photos of the pier at Wemyss Bay which has had fire damage repaired Greenock Telegraph 09/01/1980 8 Wemyss Bay Pier Centenary of opening of pier and station Greenock Telegraph 15/05/1965 5 Wemyss Bay Pier Moves to upgrade the pier under way - 6 March p5 Greenock Telegraph 31/01/1976 1 Wemyss Bay Pier Photograph and article on the old Wemyss Bay Pier Greenock Telegraph 19/03/1923 4 Wemyss Bay Pier Caledonian MacBrayne's roll-on, roll-off ramp to be ready for the summer Greenock Telegraph 10/05/1971 6 Wemyss Bay Pier Photograph of Clyde steamers at pier Greenock Telegraph 05/09/1962 4 Wemyss Bay Pier Landing pier to be built and feuing of land to be encouraged Greenock Advertiser 12/08/1845 2 Wemyss Bay Pier Before and after photographs pf the damage by fire to pier Greenock Telegraph 09/01/1980 8 Wemyss Bay Pier Plans for full reinstatement of the pier buildings approved by District Council Gourock Times 24/11/1978 1 Wemyss Bay Pier Full treatment for pier which was badly damaged by fire Greenock Telegraph 18/11/1979 7 Wemyss Bay Steamboat Wemyss Bay Steamboat Co to wind up affairs - 13 March p3 Greenock Telegraph 06/03/1869 3 Co Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Wemyss Bay War War Memorial unveiling and dedication ceremony Gourock Times 01/07/1922 2 Memorial Wemyss Bay War Unveiling of memorial Greenock Telegraph 26/06/1922 4 Memorial Wemyss Bay: Electricity Application for supply from Greenock rejected. Rejected again 19 Oct p3 Greenock Telegraph 26/07/1927 2 Wemyss Bay: Electricity Greenock Corporation delays plans to supply Wemyss Bay with electricity Gourock Times 30/07/1927 3 Wesleyan Church, New Wesleyan Church Ardgowan St.: foundation stone laid. Greenock Advertiser 29/10/1882 2 Greenock Wesleyan Church, Re- opening of Wesleyan Church after repairs. Greenock Advertiser 28/04/1863 2 Greenock Wesleyan Church, Wesleyan Methodist congregation offer £540 for old Free West Church. Greenock Advertiser 16/01/1862 2 Greenock Wesleyan Church, Wesleyan congregation to build a new church. Greenock Advertiser 19/10/1861 2 Greenock Wesleyan Foreign Annual General Meeting Greenock Advertiser 26/09/1876 2 Mission Society Wesleyan Foreign Annual General Meeting Greenock Telegraph 26/09/1876 2 Mission Society West and Mid Harbours, Filling in operations started at West and Mid Quay. Greenock Telegraph 09/10/1922 2 Greenock West and Mid Harbours, West Harbour and Mid Quay about 1806: picture. Greenock Telegraph 01/08/1974 8 Greenock West and Mid Harbours, Photographs of scenes at the West and Mid Harbours before filling in operation. Greenock Telegraph 16/10/1922 4 Greenock West Blackhall Chapel, West Blackhall Chapel: details of plans for alterations. Greenock Advertiser 07/09/1855 2 Greenock West Blackhall Chapel, West Blackhall Chapel sold for £1505 Greenock Advertiser 06/07/1855 2 Greenock West Blackhall Chapel, West Blackhall St. Chapel for sale upset price £1000. Full details. Greenock Advertiser 13/08/1844 3 Greenock West Blackhall Chapel, Church known as West Blackhall Chapel for sale. Greenock Advertiser 01/06/1855 3 Greenock West Blackhall Street Proposal to buy West Blackhall Street Chapel Greenock Advertiser 20/09/1844 2 Chapel, Greenock West Blackhall Street, Photograph showing view of West Blackhall Street Greenock Telegraph 27/03/1929 4 Greenock West Blackhall Street, Photograph showing view of West Blackhall Street between West Burn and Nicolson streets Greenock Telegraph 11/05/1920 4 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Greenock West Blackhall Street, Photograph showing view of West Blackhall Street 1935 Greenock Telegraph 04/07/1970 8 Greenock West Branchton Farm, West Branchton Farm to let Greenock Advertiser 11/08/1809 1 Inverkip West Church Cemetery, West Churchyard: memorial to have churchyard put under care of municipal authorities. Greenock Advertiser 10/11/1859 2 Greenock West Church Cemetery, Meeting of heritors and feuars of West Parish Churchyard: report. Greenock Advertiser 19/11/1858 2 Greenock West Church Cemetery, West Churchyard: meeting of lair holders. Greenock Advertiser 23/08/1859 2 Greenock West Church Cemetery, West Church burial ground: all burials to be discontinued by order of the Home Secretary. Greenock Advertiser 09/06/1859 2 Greenock West Church Cemetery, Report of inspection of west Church yard. Greenock Advertiser 10/03/1840 2 Greenock West Church Cemetery, Resurrectionists at new bury ground and West Church: yard. Greenock Advertiser 10/03/1826 3 Greenock West Church Cemetery, Report of West Churchyard enquiry before the Sheriff. Greenock Advertiser 22/02/1859 2 Greenock West Church, Port Question mark over the future of Port Glasgow's West Church Greenock Telegraph 01/03/1982 6 Glasgow West Church/Mid Kirk, Site in Nelson St. chosen for Dr McFarlan and congregation formerly of the West Parish. Details Greenock Advertiser 22/08/1843 2 Greenock on new church built for Rev James Smith and followers from the Mid Parish. West End Bar, Greenock Article on the West End Bar and the West End Bar and the Veto Poll in 1920 Greenock Telegraph 21/08/1980 8 West End Baths, West End Baths for sale. Greenock Telegraph 11/10/1944 2 Greenock West End Baths, West End Baths opened - details of interior. Official opening Telegraph 26th April p3 Greenock Advertiser 26/04/1881 3 Greenock West End Baths, Introduction of sea water to West End Baths. Greenock Telegraph 14/06/1882 2 Greenock West End Baths, West End Baths - annual meeting. Greenock Telegraph 31/10/1881 2 Greenock West End Baths, West End Baths opened - details of interior. Official opening Telegraph 26th April p3 Greenock Telegraph 25/04/1881 3 Greenock West End Baths, West End Bath Co: - details of plans for Baths in Campbell St. Greenock Advertiser 04/06/1879 2 Greenock West End Baths, West End Baths - improvements and alterations. Greenock Telegraph 17/10/1902 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Greenock West End Baths, West End Baths - renovation. Greenock Telegraph 19/09/1911 2 Greenock West End Baths, West End Baths Co. Ltd. - 1st Annual meeting. Greenock Advertiser 29/04/1880 2 Greenock West End Baths, West End Baths - details Greenock Telegraph 28/12/1880 2 Greenock West End Bowling Club West End Bowling Club formed. Greenock Advertiser 27/02/1857 2 West End Cricket Club, 4th annual meeting of the West-End Cricket Club. Greenock Advertiser 19/02/1867 2 Greenock West End Play Area, Play area for West End - Council are to buy the Ardgowan annexe site. Greenock Telegraph 13/09/1983 8 Greenock West End, Greenock Article on the changing landscape of the west end with many mansions being converted into Greenock Telegraph 18/04/1934 6 flats West End, Greenock Article on the west end of the town Greenock Telegraph 23/04/1927 2 West Free Church, Item on New West Free Church. Greenock Advertiser 15/11/1862 2 Greenock West Free Church, Port Opening of new iron Church - the West Free Church Greenock Telegraph 04/09/1876 3 Glasgow West Harbour, Greenock Boiler explosion on board 'Ruby' in West Harbour, loss of life and damage to property: details. Greenock Advertiser 29/03/1864 2 West Harbour, Greenock Article on the businesses, hotels and other shops and markets around the West Harbour area. Greenock Telegraph 28/05/1926 4 West Harbour, Greenock Photograph of the West Harbour and the businesses that used to be in that area 50 years ago. Greenock Telegraph 01/11/1951 3 West Harbour, Greenock Article on the West Harbour and photograph of the Old Bell Entry: 1 November p4; 8 December Greenock Telegraph 30/10/1922 4 p3. West Harbour, Greenock Item on West End Harbour works. Greenock Advertiser 29/07/1862 2 West Harbour, Greenock Old West Harbour about 1900. Greenock Telegraph 22/08/1970 3 West Harbour, Greenock Filing in of the dry dock of the West Harbour. Greenock Telegraph 18/03/1920 2 West Harbour, Greenock Photograph showing view of the Old West Harbour about 1900 Greenock Telegraph 22/08/1970 3 West Harbour, Greenock Improvements to West Harbour started. Greenock Advertiser 23/06/1854 2 West Harbour, Greenock Photograph showing view of West Harbour in the 1920's Greenock Telegraph 01/11/1951 3 West Harbour, Greenock Photograph showing view of the West Harbour about 1900 Greenock Telegraph 13/02/1969 4 West Harbour, Greenock Opening of West Harbour Bridge. Greenock Telegraph 02/06/1885 3 West Harbour, Greenock Item on improvements being carried out in West Harbour. Greenock Advertiser 08/08/1854 2 West Harbour, Greenock Mr Kinipple's plan for bridging the Wet Harbour entrance. Greenock Advertiser 20/08/1883 2 West Harbour, Greenock New crane built for West Harbour tested: details. Greenock Advertiser 19/06/1862 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page West Harbour, Greenock Item on the Edinburgh gardeners and their wheelbarrows used to excavate the West Harbour. Greenock Telegraph 23/10/1981 12 West Kirk, Greenock Items on improvements to West Parish Church. Greenock Telegraph 26/09/1877 2 West Kirk, Greenock West Church Burying Ground: sum raise to carry out improvements. Greenock Advertiser 12/09/1851 2 West Kirk, Greenock West Kirk: yard: case: findings Greenock Telegraph 24/02/1869 3 West Kirk, Greenock 3 stained: glass windows for the West Kirk as memorial to the dead in World War 1. Greenock Telegraph 28/11/1919 2 West Kirk, Greenock West Parish Church: meeting to consider improvements to church yard. Greenock Advertiser 20/12/1850 2 West Kirk, Greenock Report of meeting of lairholders and others connected with West Churchyard. Greenock Advertiser 22/10/1864 2 West Kirk, Greenock Court of Sessions: the West Church yard desecration. Again 2nd April p1, 3rd April p1, 6th April Greenock Telegraph 01/04/1868 1 p1, 7th April p1, 9th April p1. West Kirk, Greenock Builder of wood is mariners asylum, Mr. King of Houston wins contract for spire at west church. Greenock Advertiser 24/03/1854 2 West Kirk, Greenock Chapel of ease to be built in West Parish of Greenock. Greenock Advertiser 28/05/1822 3 West Kirk, Greenock Meeting of West Parish congregation to express agreement with resolutions adopted by Greenock Advertiser 31/01/1843 2 Convention of Ministers last year. West Kirk, Greenock Annals of the West Church Greenock Advertiser 07/01/1865 2 West Kirk, Greenock Details of renovations to be carried out in the West Kirk. Greenock Telegraph 28/08/1912 2 West Kirk, Greenock Article on 'McCulloch's Clock' on the steeple of the West Kirk in Nelson St Greenock Telegraph 10/04/1956 3 West Kirk, Greenock Meeting to discuss repairs to West Church: estimates. Greenock Advertiser 15/09/1854 1 West Kirk, Greenock Plans for improving West Church Burial Ground include unroofing church making it an Greenock Advertiser 10/10/1851 2 ornamental ruin. Start of improvements: 4th Nov. p2. West Kirk, Greenock West Parish Church buys Baptist Church in Nelson St. for £700, to convert into a parish school. Greenock Advertiser 12/02/1867 2 West Kirk, Greenock West Church Burying Ground: improvements. Greenock Advertiser 30/01/1849 2 West Kirk, Greenock Seats to let in the west Church. Greenock Advertiser 06/05/1814 1 West Kirk, Greenock Meeting of feuars in west parish to consider building a new church: cost of erecting a spire to Greenock Advertiser 28/04/1835 2 the building to be kept separate. West Kirk, Greenock Drawing of the West Parish Church. Greenock Telegraph 28/12/1907 3 West Maukinhill Opening of West Maukinhill Community Centre Greenock Telegraph 15/01/1975 8 Community Centre, Greenock West Mill, Greenock West Mill situated on West Burn St between Princes and Kilblain Streets for sale. Former Greenock Advertiser 15/03/1866 2 occupier Matthew Hill West of Scotland Boat Plans of West of Scotland Boat Club opening procession. Clyde Yacht Club opening session on Greenock Advertiser 23/05/1867 2 Club 7th June. West of Scotland Fine Opening of West of Scotland Exhibition of Fine Art. Greenock Advertiser 11/06/1864 2 Arts Exhibition West of Scotland Fine West of Scotland Fine Arts Exhibition opened in Greenock again: 1 June p2; 8 June p2 (letter 11 Greenock Advertiser 28/05/1861 Arts Exhibition, Greenock June p1); 15 June p1 (letter 25 June p1); 25 June p2; 2 July p2; 13 July p2; 20 July p2; 27 July Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page p2; 3 August p1 and 2. West Quay, Greenock Contractors to finish shed on the new West Quay. Greenock Advertiser 13/08/1810 1 West Renfrew Motors, West Renfrew Motors to close with the loss of 22 jobs. Company began in Port Glasgow in Greenock Telegraph 17/12/1980 9 Greenock 1920, moving to Greenock in 1921. West Renfrewshire Bible Donation acknowledgements. Greenock Advertiser 13/12/1814 1 Society, Port Glasgow West Renfrewshire Annual General Meeting and election of committee Greenock Advertiser 16/09/1881 3 Horticultural Society, Greenock West Renfrewshire Annual competition - prize-winners and new committee Greenock Advertiser 26/09/1833 3 Horticultural Society, Greenock West Renfrewshire Hold competition meeting - list of winners Greenock Advertiser 30/04/1830 2 Horticultural Society, Greenock West Renfrewshire Course of lectures on botany to be held in the Mechanic's Hall Greenock Advertiser 07/05/1841 3 Horticultural Society, Greenock West Renfrewshire Orders for West Renfrewshire Regiment of Local Militia to assemble at Greenock to march to Greenock Advertiser 06/05/1812 1 & 3 Regiment of Local Militia Paisley. West Renfrewshire West Renfrewshire Local Militia march to Paisley for 14 days duty. Greenock Advertiser 01/06/1812 3 Regiment of Local Militia West Station, Greenock Row looms over proposed plans for West Station area Greenock Telegraph 04/12/1972 7 West Stewart Street, Knights of St Columba planning to demolish 200 year house in West Stewart Street Greenock Telegraph 04/06/1971 10 Greenock West Stewart Street, Demolition begins of Georgian Mansion in West Stewart Street - former property of Provost J J Greenock Telegraph 06/04/1972 10 Greenock Grieve and Knights of St Columba. Discovery of a well inside the building - 28th April p11 West Stewart Theories on the origins of the mansion at the corner of West Stewart and Jamaica Streets Greenock Telegraph 24/05/1962 5 Street/Jamaica Street, Greenock Westburn Distillery, Distillery at foot of West Burn for sale. Greenock Advertiser 30/09/1825 3 Greenock Westburn Square, Item on the women's hostel in Westburn Square Greenock Telegraph 03/05/1933 2 Greenock Westburn Square, Photograph showing view of Westburn Square and Hunter Place soon to disappear Greenock Telegraph 02/01/1971 8 Greenock Westburn Square, Opening of women's hostel in Westburn Square Greenock Telegraph 25/10/1933 2 Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Westburn Square, Photograph of 200 year old houses in Westburn Square which would be demolished under Greenock Telegraph 28/11/1952 6 Greenock redevelopment scheme Westburn Square, Modernisation completed of Westburn Buildings Greenock Telegraph 13/07/1978 10 Greenock Westburn Square, Article on the women's hostel in Westburn Square and the names commemorated there Greenock Telegraph 25/09/1953 10 Greenock Westburn Square, Photograph showing view of 200 year old houses in Westburn Square Greenock Telegraph 28/11/1952 6 Greenock Westburn Square, Photograph showing view of Westburn Square before the Old West Kirk was Moved Greenock Telegraph 08/04/1950 3 Greenock Westburn Street, Photograph showing view of the tenements in Westburn Street known as 'Gladstone Block' built Greenock Telegraph 17/03/1972 8 Greenock in 1880 Westburn Street, Photograph showing view of the tenements in Westburn Street known as 'Gladstone Block' built Greenock Telegraph 16/03/1972 6 Greenock in 1880 Westburn Street, Drawings of houses in Westburn Street before redevelopment which are to be used for the Greenock Telegraph 16/02/1973 10 Greenock murals in the Westburn underpass - 17th Feb p4 Westburn Street, Photograph of 'Gladstone Block' built in 1880 in Westburn Street - 17th Mar p8 Greenock Telegraph 16/03/1972 6 Greenock Westburn Street, Photograph showing view of West Burn street where fisher hawker's carts await the arrival of Greenock Telegraph 21/07/1921 4 Greenock the herring from the Glasgow fish market Westburn Sugar Refinery Photograph showing view of the men of No 2 Warehouse of Westburn Sugar Refinery 1930 Greenock Telegraph 25/05/1979 10 Western Educational Western Educational Establishment at 1 Ardgowan Square run by Mrs Galloway and Miss Greenock Advertiser 03/08/1855 2 Establishment, Greenock Taylor details of charges. Western Industrial Closure of Western Refrigeration in Baker Street poses a mystery Greenock Telegraph 17/08/1983 9 Refrigeration, Greenock Western Industrial Big Western Industrial Refrigeration plan to take over industrial premises in Baker Street and to Greenock Telegraph 15/05/1982 7 Refrigeration, Greenock increase work force Western Regional To be run by a panel under the Western Regional Hospital Board after NHS Greenock Telegraph 01/05/1948 5 Hospital Board Western Saw Mill, Western Saw Mills - in Low Gourock Road - to be let. Details Greenock Advertiser 10/09/1847 3 Greenock Western Saw Mill, Western Saw Mills, south west side of West Blackhall St, recently rented by Lamb and Burten Greenock Advertiser 11/05/1852 3 Greenock for £350 per year, to be sold Western Saw Mill, Western Saw Mill - trust disposition for trustees to pay off debtors Greenock Advertiser 08/05/1846 2 Greenock Western Saw Mill, Western Saw Mill in the Bay of Quick for sale -details Greenock Advertiser 13/06/1843 3 Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Western Saw Mill, Sale of property belonging to the sequestrated estate of the Western Saw Mill Company. Greenock Advertiser 22/02/1850 3 Greenock Western Saw Mill, Western Sawmill for sale - details of property. Warrant against sale given to former owner\ Greenock Advertiser 05/05/1859 3 Greenock Western Saw Mill, Western Saw Mills sold to tenants Allison & Crawford Greenock Advertiser 16/12/1862 2 Greenock Western Saw Mill, Western Sawmill for sale - details of property. Warrant against sale given to former owner\ Greenock Advertiser 14/05/1859 2 Greenock Weston Repetition, Port Closure of Weston Repetition which made heavy industrial refrigeration units Greenock Telegraph 31/01/1980 13 Glasgow Whale Oil Boiler, Whale fishery boiling up and in Port Glasgow Road near Clyde Pottery to be let. Greenock Advertiser 18/10/1831 3 Greenock Whaling Article on Greenock’s whaling companies Greenock Telegraph 31/01/1958 5 Wheaten Bread Society, General Meeting of the Society - applications to supply bread to society sought Greenock Advertiser 03/05/1822 3 Greenock Wheatsheaf Hotel, Wheatsheaf Hotel, corner of Church Place and Market Street to be sold Greenock Advertiser 02/03/1876 1 Greenock Wheatsheaf Inn, D. McCammond of the Wheatsheaf Inn opens up sleeping accommodation nearby Greenock Advertiser 29/07/1853 3 Greenock Wheatsheaf Inn, Photograph showing view of the Wheat Sheaf Inn in Market Street Greenock Telegraph 12/03/1949 4 Greenock Wheatsheaf Inn, Wheatsheaf Inn - Mrs Donald retiring. Business taken over by son-in-law David McCammon Greenock Advertiser 01/08/1851 3 Greenock Wheatsheaf Inn, Port Wheatsheaf Inn Purchased for £1300 Greenock Advertiser 04/05/1867 2 Glasgow Wheatsheaf Tavern, Photograph of the Wheatsheaf in Market Street Greenock Telegraph 12/03/1949 4 Greenock Wheatsheaf Tavern, Wheatsheaf Tavern, Church Place run by Mrs Donald Greenock Advertiser 05/07/1842 3 Greenock Whinhill Explosion, Article on the explosion at Whinhill in September 1870 when eight youths died. Greenock Telegraph 24/03/1983 9 Greenock Whinhill Golf Course, Opening of course at Whinhill. Greenock Telegraph 08/04/1911 3 Greenock Whinhill Golf Course, Proposed municipal course at Whinhill. Greenock Telegraph 10/03/1910 2 Greenock Whinstone Quarry, Whinstone quarry to let Greenock Advertiser 17/04/1811 2 Gourock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Whinstone Quarry, Whinstone Quarry at Kempock to be let Greenock Advertiser 13/04/1810 1 Gourock Whinstone Quarry, Gourock Whinstone Quarry to be let. Article on places and buildings which have used stone Greenock Advertiser 02/02/1855 3 Gourock from this quarry -9th Feb 1855 p2 Whinstone Quarry, Whinstone Quarry behind the village of Gourock to let Greenock Advertiser 04/03/1814 1 Gourock Whinstone Quarry, Whinstone Quarry of Craigmuschat to let Greenock Advertiser 02/01/1844 3 Gourock Whinstone Quarry, Whinstone Quarry at Kempock Greenock Advertiser 05/05/1809 1 Gourock White & Gilmour, White & Gilmour propose to build engineering works in Robertson Street Greenock Telegraph 05/07/1893 2 Greenock White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn and Hotel for sale Greenock Advertiser 29/04/1823 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn - picture of sign Greenock Advertiser 19/10/1812 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn repairs, extension, owner, stables and accommodation Greenock Advertiser 14/06/1811 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn, partly fronting Cathcart Square and partly Cathcart Street for sale Greenock Advertiser 22/08/1843 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Hotel to be let. Details of property Greenock Advertiser 09/01/1855 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn, Cathcart Square for sale. At present under lease of £200 rental Greenock Advertiser 05/11/1844 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock Article with photograph on the White Hart Inn which stood at top of William Street Greenock Telegraph 10/11/1960 4 White Hart Inn, Greenock Mrs Thomas Millar of George Inn moves to White Hart Inn, Cathcart Street Greenock Advertiser 06/05/1856 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn and Hotel for sale. Details of property Greenock Advertiser 12/04/1822 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn to be let. Description - 28th Nov p1 Greenock Advertiser 21/11/1820 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock Old White Hart Inn re-opened Greenock Advertiser 02/02/1816 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn taken over by James Walker Greenock Advertiser 03/04/1821 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn and Hotel, Square taken over by Thomas Bunten Greenock Advertiser 01/04/1825 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock Old White Hart Inn and Hotel: James Hutton entered into the above premises Greenock Advertiser 18/05/1814 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn to be let Greenock Advertiser 16/04/1819 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn and Hotel - accommodation since re-opening, wines etc. Greenock Advertiser 14/10/1814 3 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn and Hotel to be let Greenock Advertiser 31/08/1810 2 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn and Hotel taken over by John Adam2 Greenock Advertiser 15/07/1812 1 White Hart Inn, Greenock White Hart Inn - lease to be sold Greenock Advertiser 05/11/1813 1 White Horse Inn, White Horse Inn in Market Street for sale Greenock Advertiser 25/05/1849 3 Greenock White Horse Inn, White Horse Inn in Market Street presented run by Robert Morris to be let - description Greenock Advertiser 15/12/1836 3 Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page White Horse Inn, White Horse Inn in Market Street for sale Greenock Advertiser 18/04/1843 3 Greenock White Horse Inn, White Horse Inn in Market Street to be let - description of property& Greenock Advertiser 17/01/1833 3 Greenock White Horse Inn, White Horse Inn and stabling to be let Greenock Advertiser 05/01/1855 3 Greenock Whyte's Wine and Spirit Photograph of Whyte's Wine and Spirit Store - no date but 19th century Gourock Times 02/01/1976 5 Store, Gourock Widdrow, Janet Extract from Chambers' Domestic Annals of Scotland on the mail in 1696 of Janet Widdrow who Greenock Advertiser 26/03/1861 1 was alleged to be a witch Widows Society, Claims to pay out on 24 November Greenock Advertiser 29/10/1830 3 Greenock Wilde, Oscar Oscar Wilde gives lecture to Philosophical Society Greenock Telegraph 14/02/1885 3 William Chisholm & Co., William Chisholm & Co. coopers. Greenock Advertiser 15/09/1840 3 Greenock William Hamilton & Co., John Reid & Co’s yard bought by William Hamilton & Co - details Greenock Telegraph 12/08/1891 3 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Yard of Wm Hamilton & Co taken over by Ferguson Brothers Greenock Telegraph 10/01/1903 2 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Hamilton & Co put in offer for yard of Blackwood & Gordon but not accepted Greenock Telegraph 26/08/1887 2 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Wm Hamilton & Co obtain from patentee the first license to build ships by the Isherwood method Greenock Telegraph 23/04/1908 2 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Item on Wm Hamilton & Co and their introduction of the Isherwood system of building ships Greenock Telegraph 12/01/1910 1 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Wm Hamilton & Co propose scheme to alter and extend their premises Greenock Telegraph 21/11/1913 2 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Joiner’s shop and sawmill of Wm Hamilton & Co destroyed by fire. Damage estimated at Greenock Telegraph 13/01/1897 2 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow £20,000 William Hamilton & Co., Wm Hamilton & Co buy yard formerly occupied by McCulloch & Paterson Greenock Advertiser 15/06/1871 1 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Wm Hamilton & Co buy land on which Kingston Saw Mills and yard of Henry Murray & Co stand Greenock Advertiser 28/02/1881 2 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Wm Hamilton & Co buy yard formerly occupied by McCulloch & Paterson Greenock Telegraph 13/06/1871 4 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow William Hamilton & Co., Wm Hamilton & Co to re-open the yard at Newark Castle Greenock Telegraph 09/11/1898 2 shipbuilder, Port Glasgow Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page William Marshall & Son, Tanner & Skinners business of William Marshall & Son dissolved on death of William Marshall. Greenock Advertiser 03/11/1854 3 Greenock Business to continue under same name by William Marshall Jnr. and James F Marshall. William McCrindle & William McCrindle & sons take over former J & T Lawrie's premises in Bay Street Greenock Telegraph 07/08/1980 13 Sons, Port Glasgow William McKechany, Shipyard belonging to William McKechany for sale Greenock Advertiser 24/07/1805 1 shipbuilder William Muir & Sons, William Muir & Sons tannery in Dalrymple St. destroyed by fire also houses and stores, families Greenock Advertiser 16/09/1880 2 Greenock homeless. William Muir & Sons, William Muir & Sons tannery in Dalrymple St. destroyed by fire also houses and stores, families Greenock Telegraph 16/09/1880 2 Greenock homeless. William Simon & Co., New slip dock at William Simons finished: vessels up to 400 tons can be taken. Castings made Greenock Advertiser 15/06/1835 3 Greenock by Caird & Co and Scott Sinclair & Co William Street, Greenock Cloch Civic Society may take over one of the town's oldest buildings at 14 William Street Greenock Telegraph 12/09/1972 7 William Street, Greenock Facelift for 9 William Street Greenock Telegraph 04/02/1979 5 William Street, Greenock Photograph showing view of the before and after of 9 William Street Greenock Telegraph 02/12/1978 6 William Street, Greenock Problems of listed building in William Street Greenock Telegraph 09/10/1973 6 William Street, Greenock Civic Trust award for Greenock architects James Parr and Partners for the work undertaken and Greenock Telegraph 28/11/1980 17 results achieved on the renovation of 9 William Street William Street, Greenock Photograph showing view of Old fish market in William Street Greenock Telegraph 04/12/1922 4 William Street, Greenock Before and after photographs showing the work carried out at 9 William Street Greenock Telegraph 02/12/1978 6 William Vernon & Sons, Sketch of front elevation of the new flour mills of Wm Vernon & Sons at the James Watt dock Greenock Telegraph 12/08/1920 4 Greenock William Wilson & Sons, The pipe work engineering plant of William Wilson & sons to close Greenock Telegraph 05/06/1980 1 Port Glasgow Williamson, Captain Obituary of descendent of the family who owned many 6clyde steamers (Williamson - Gourock Times 22/02/1919 3 James Buchanan) Williamson, George Death of the author of 'Old Greenock' and 'Old Cartsburn' Greenock Telegraph 29/03/1899 2 Williamson, George Details of funeral of author of 'Old Greenock' and 'Watt Memorials' Greenock Advertiser 27/10/1854 2 Williamson, Robert Obituary of former Provost of Gourock Robert Williamson. Greenock Telegraph 24/10/1975 12 Williamson, Robert Obituary of former Provost of Gourock Robert Williamson. Gourock Times 31/10/1975 1 Williamson, Stephen Biography for MP for Kilmarnock Burghs Greenock Telegraph 14/05/1895 3 Willow Bank Baking Willow Bank Baking Company branches in Greenock, Gourock, and Port Glasgow & Inverkip. Greenock Advertiser 19/07/1822 3 Company, Greenock Wilson, John Biographical sketch of John Wilson, late master of the Grammar School at Greenock Greenock Advertiser 15/02/1803 1 Wilson, John Item on John Wilson, teacher at the Grammar School in 1767 Greenock Telegraph 31/12/1982 7 Wilson, Provost Edward Death of former MP Greenock Telegraph 30/11/1906 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Wilson, Rev Robert Item on the Greenock minister who invented and produced the steam turbine Greenock Telegraph 23/02/1965 3 Wilson, Robert Letter from Robert Wilson on public health. Greenock Advertiser 13/10/1848 1 Wiltshire Militia Wiltshire Militia to perform duty in Greenock. Greenock Advertiser 24/05/1813 3 Winant, John C. American Ambassador John C Winant visits United Seaman's Service Club Gourock Times 28/05/1943 1 Windyhills, Kilmacolm Windyhills, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, for sale Greenock Telegraph 22/03/1979 9 Wine and Spirit Campaign by James. M. Scott to reduce the number of 'dramshops and wee pawns'. 28 Nov Greenock Advertiser 24/11/1848 3 p.3; 1/12 Dec p.2; p.2 Wine Merchants Arthur Skivington & Co (later Sons) - flagon found in Loch Goil, details of company. Greenock Telegraph 22/06/1979 12 Wine, Spirit and Beer 5th annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 02/03/1867 2 Trade Association Winter Sports Memories of winter sports including curling and skating in Inverclyde 50 years ago. Greenock Telegraph 23/02/1979 10 Wm Hume & Co., Brass founders Wm Hume & Co to branch into a new field - coffin accessories - may lead to Greenock Telegraph 05/08/1982 10 Greenock new jobs Wm. Thorne & Co., Photograph showing view of Thorne's distillery offices in Clarence Street Greenock Telegraph 10/05/1980 9 Greenock Women Citizens' Women Citizens' Association no longer to use Gamble Halls for their Karate Club Greenock Telegraph 11/04/1977 6 Association, Gourock Women's Hostel, Article on the Women's Hostel in Westburn Square and the Initials on the building Greenock Telegraph 21/07/1971 4 Greenock Women's Liberal Annual meeting of Women's Liberal Association Greenock Telegraph 18/02/1893 3 Association, Greenock Women's Suffrage, Meeting addressed by Mrs Philip Snowden. Greenock Telegraph 12/10/1911 3 Gourock Women's Suffrage, Meeting held by Women Unionists on the question of the vote for women Greenock Telegraph 03/02/1909 2 Greenock Women's Suffrage, Lecture given by Miss Taylor Greenock Advertiser 13/04/1872 2 Greenock Women's Suffrage, Annual meeting of the Association of Women's Suffrage Greenock Telegraph 25/02/1913 4 Greenock Women's Suffrage, Public meeting in Greenock Greenock Telegraph 03/02/1913 4 Greenock Women's Suffrage, Women's Freedom League address by Miss Munro. Greenock Telegraph 01/04/1911 2 Greenock Women's Suffrage, Meeting on Women's Suffrage Greenock Telegraph 13/02/1870 1 Greenock Women's Suffrage, Port Women's Suffrage, Port Glasgow. Large meeting held. Greenock Telegraph 14/09/1911 2 Glasgow Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Women's Suffrage, Port Women's Suffrage, Port Glasgow - Meeting addressed by Christabel Pankhurst. Greenock Telegraph 22/09/1911 4 Glasgow Wood, John Article on John Wood and his brother Charles Greenock Advertiser 26/03/1861 2 Wood, John Obituary of John Wood, shipbuilder in Port Glasgow Greenock Advertiser 27/12/1860 2 Wood, Robert Death of stone carver (Walter Baine memorial, ornamental carvings on Wood's asylum) Greenock Advertiser 13/06/1956 2 Wood, Sir Gabriel Photographs of his father's birthplace which stood beside the eastern school in Gourock and his Greenock Telegraph 12/08/1950 5 house in the Old Vennel where he was born Wood, Sir Gabriel Brief biography Greenock Telegraph 20/07/1898 3 Wood, Sir Gabriel Obituary notice. Greenock to benefit under the terms of his will - 21 Nov p2. Setting up of Greenock Advertiser 07/11/1845 2 charitable institution for seamen - 5 Dec p2. Details of bequest - 16 Dec p2 Wood, Sir Gabriel Photograph and article on the demolition of his birthplace Greenock Telegraph 03/09/1937 3 Wood, Sir Gabriel Commissary General Wood, native of Greenock, knighted Greenock Advertiser 29/04/1825 3 Wood, Sir Gabriel Photograph showing view of Sir Gabriel Wood's father's birthplace in Gourock and his own Greenock Telegraph 12/08/1950 5 birthplace in the Old Vennel Wood, William Obituary of Provost of Gourock William Wood. Gourock Times 16/07/1937 3 Woodhall Church of Woodhall Church of Scotland new hall dedicated Greenock Telegraph 21/04/1947 2 Scotland, Port Glasgow Woodhall Community Woodhall Community Hall opens a year late. 30 April p7 Greenock Telegraph 29/04/1983 13 Hall, Port Glasgow Woodhall Community Opening of the smallest community centre at 11 Brightside for Woodhall tenants Greenock Telegraph 07/03/1979 8 Hall, Port Glasgow Woodhall Community Woodhall Community Hall will not be completed until March, a year late Greenock Telegraph 21/01/1983 10 Hall, Port Glasgow Woodhall, Port Glasgow Photograph showing view of the work on the new section of the A8 at Woodhall Greenock Telegraph 11/02/1982 13 Woodhall, Port Glasgow Housing Committee reject plea to spend £50.000 on environmental improvements at Woodhall Greenock Telegraph 03/01/1980 13 Woodhall, Port Glasgow Photograph of new housing scheme at Woodhall Greenock Telegraph 24/05/1939 4 Woodhall, Port Glasgow Photograph of Woodhall, the mansion bought by the town Council and to be demolished Greenock Telegraph 29/06/1934 4 Woodhall, Port Glasgow Councillors disagree over remedial work being carved out at Woodhall. 11 May p8 Greenock Telegraph 08/04/1983 12 Wool Mills, Greenock Woollen Mill at Crawfordsdyke Burn, formerly Flint Mill of Clyde Potter Co, and machinery for Greenock Advertiser 06/03/1869 3 sale Wool Mills, Greenock Mill used for cording wool, at Brachelston to be let, water wheel etc Greenock Advertiser 30/07/1841 3 Wool Mills, Greenock Fire in cording department of Roebuck Woollen Mill on the cut of Shaw's Water - Mill property of Greenock Advertiser 15/09/1846 2 Robert Houston Wool Mills, Greenock William Houston's Dying & Wool Mill in Baker St. First and second floor destroyed, also Greenock Advertiser 29/07/1842 2 machinery except water wheel. 3 months to rebuild, workmen will be unemployed Wool Mills, Greenock Fall no 2 of Shaw's Water let to a wool spinning factory Greenock Advertiser 30/04/1889 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Wool Mills, Greenock Shaw's Water Worsted Mill - owners, John Fleming, Robert Neil and Mr Reid. Entertainment to Greenock Advertiser 07/07/1846 2 be given to employees Wool Mills, Greenock Details of water wheel installed and wool spinning mill of Neill, Fleming & Read Greenock Advertiser 22/09/1840 2 Wool Mills, Greenock Woollen mill and dye work with machinery part of estate of William Houston, for sale. Full details Greenock Advertiser 02/08/1844 2 of property etc. Wool Mills, Greenock Co-partnership between Robert Neill, John Fleming and James Reid under firm of Neill, Fleming Greenock Advertiser 18/05/1849 3 and Reid dissolved. James Reid & John Fleming to continue business in same premises under Fleming & Reid Wool Mills, Greenock Rockbank Woollen Mill damaged by fire Greenock Telegraph 09/08/1884 2 Wool Mills, Greenock Robert Houston & Co, woollen manufacturers and dyers, dissolved. Business at Mill on Shaw's Greenock Advertiser 20/11/1838 3 Water to be carried on by William Houstonå Wool Mills, Greenock Mill (formerly flint mill of Greenock Pottery) now woollen mill owned by Edward MacFarlane & Greenock Telegraph 26/03/1869 3 Sons for sale - details Workers Co-operatives Council promise cash help to set up a co-operative for the production of rug canvas. Greenock Telegraph 09/10/1980 13 Workers' Housing Formation of Workers' Housing Council Greenock Telegraph 28/09/1912 4 Council Working Boys and Girls Report of annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 09/02/1876 2 Religious Society, Greenock Working Boys and Girls Centenary of society - history of the society Greenock Telegraph 15/11/1969 8 Religious Society, Greenock Working Boys and Girls Report of annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 10/02/1876 3 Religious Society, Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 02/03/1906 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 01/04/1915 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting and report Greenock Telegraph 19/03/1914 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting 21 Mar p2 Greenock Telegraph 20/03/1913 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 07/04/1950 7 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting and report Greenock Telegraph 13/03/1912 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, 17th annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 29/03/1983 3 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Greenock Working Boys Home, 34th annual meeting and report Greenock Telegraph 23/03/1910 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 28/03/1894 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 29/06/1916 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual business meeting Greenock Telegraph 31/03/1905 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting and financial statement Greenock Telegraph 12/03/1904 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 29/03/1899 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 28/05/1898 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 14/05/1897 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 25/03/1896 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 24/03/1909 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting and report of another successful year Greenock Telegraph 12/04/1957 9 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting - new premises being sought Greenock Telegraph 18/04/1963 9 Greenock Working Boys Home, Budget increased sharply in last 10 years - annual meeting told Greenock Telegraph 13/04/1951 6 Greenock Working Boys Home, Opening of the new Working Boys Home in Finnart Street Greenock Telegraph 28/10/1965 6 Greenock Working Boys Home, Policy for taking younger boys proves successful - annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 06/05/1969 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, 102nd annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 16/04/1971 7 Greenock Working Boys Home, Funds to go to Caladh House Greenock Telegraph 12/12/1974 13 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 05/05/1932 4 Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Working Boys Home, Annual meeting - falling off in numbers reported2 Greenock Telegraph 19/05/1922 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Article and photographs of the new home in Finnart Street Greenock Telegraph 31/08/1965 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, £1000 gift starts building fund; annual meeting held Greenock Telegraph 24/04/1962 9 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting and report - 9 April p3 Greenock Telegraph 08/04/1937 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 11/06/1927 6 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting - efforts to be made to increase numbers using the home Greenock Telegraph 08/06/1928 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 08/04/1948 5 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 07/04/1938 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 18/04/1935 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting hears of boys' record contribution to the upkeep of the house Greenock Telegraph 29/03/1946 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 12/05/1923 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting and report Greenock Telegraph 30/03/1944 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report Greenock Telegraph 01/04/1943 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting and report - photograph Greenock Telegraph 07/05/1930 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 30/03/1939 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 28/04/1917 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting - more local support should be given to the home Greenock Telegraph 19/04/1934 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, 60th annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 10/04/1936 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 03/04/1947 4 Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Working Boys Home, 49th annual meeting and report Greenock Telegraph 01/05/1925 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Fatima House to become new headquarters of the working Boys Home Greenock Telegraph 22/08/1964 5 Greenock Working Boys Home, Appeal for public assistance - annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 27/04/1933 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, 65th annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 27/03/1941 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, 10th annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 13/03/1886 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting - consideration to be given to idea of allowing younger boys at the home Greenock Telegraph 08/05/1967 9 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 07/05/1921 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 04/11/1884 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 30/03/1907 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, 3rd annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 25/01/1879 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 28/01/1880 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Due to difficulties in maintaining present home, a Building Fund is to be set up - annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 22/04/1961 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 28/01/1880 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 26/01/1882 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 29/01/1881 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 04/11/1884 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, 2nd annual report Greenock Advertiser 30/01/1876 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 18/03/1885 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 26/01/1882 3 Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Working Boys Home, Annual report and meeting Greenock Telegraph 23/04/1960 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting hears of job prospects which at present are not good Greenock Telegraph 10/04/1959 6 Greenock Working Boys Home, Income more that expenditure reported at annual meeting9 Greenock Telegraph 23/04/1958 9 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting; appeals for financial aid - 12 April p5 Greenock Telegraph 10/04/1952 6 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 09/05/1918 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, 2nd annual report Greenock Telegraph 30/01/1876 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, 43rd annual meeting - decline in numbers using home Greenock Telegraph 10/05/1919 2 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 26/03/1895 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 02/03/1892 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 11/04/1891 4 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 22/03/1890 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 24/02/1888 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 29/03/1887 3 Greenock Working Boys Home, Annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 07/04/1949 7 Greenock Working Man's Society, First meeting of new society held - report Greenock Telegraph 28/01/1876 3 Kilmacolm Working Man's Society, First meeting of new society held - report Greenock Advertiser 28/01/1876 3 Kilmacolm Working Men's Institute, Formal opening Greenock Telegraph 22/02/1876 3 Kilmacolm Working Men's Protection Lecture on evils of Sunday Working Greenock Advertiser 24/12/1850 1 Society, Greenock Working Men's Protection Report of trust annual meeting Greenock Advertiser 14/06/1850 2 Society, Greenock Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Working Men's Sabbath Report of meeting held on Sunday Observance Greenock Advertiser 01/06/1849 2 Observance Assoc., Greenock Working Men's Total First report of society issued Greenock Advertiser 17/09/1859 2 Abstinence Society, Greenock World War 1 Declaration of war against Germany Greenock Telegraph 05/08/1914 4 World War 1 Setting up of National Service Committees in Greenock and Port Glasgow Greenock Telegraph 09/03/1917 2 World War 1 Memories of Armistice Day 11 Nov 1918 Greenock Telegraph 09/11/1978 7 World War 1 Appeal by the Provost to the young men of Greenock to join up Greenock Telegraph 04/09/1914 2 World War 1 Food production: Government Inspector's recommendations Greenock Telegraph 02/02/1917 2 World War 1 Photograph of British POW in the Munster Camp - recollections of the Somme Greenock Telegraph 14/11/1980 12 World War 1 Report of military procession in peace celebrations; again 21 July p2 Greenock Telegraph 19/07/1919 2 World War 1 Celebrations at news of Armistice Gourock Times 16/11/1918 3 World War 1 Peace declared; celebrations 12 Nov p2 Greenock Telegraph 11/11/1918 2 World War 1 Greenock Territorials in action in the Dardanelles - many casualties Greenock Telegraph 19/07/1915 2 World War 1 Role of Greenock tugs in the Gallipolli campaign Greenock Telegraph 18/02/1982 8 World War 1 Compulsory food rationing - introduction of a scheme in Greenock Greenock Telegraph 05/02/1918 2 World War 1 Red Cross train - photograph and details; Exhibition at Greenock Central - 21 Sept p4; Greenock Telegraph 18/09/1915 4 Photographs of opening ceremony - 22 Sept p6... World War 1 Memorial service for those Greenock men who died at the Achi Baba Charge on 13 July 1915 Greenock Telegraph 13/07/1916 2 World War 1 Photograph of the part-time soldiers who guarded the James Watt Dock Greenock Telegraph 18/12/1979 6 World War 2 Greenock and area hear news of Japanese surrender. Celebrations - 16 Aug p2, 17 Aug p2 Greenock Telegraph 15/08/1945 2 World War 2 Criticism of emergency arrangements during the 1941 Blitz - recently released Dept of Health Greenock Telegraph 03/01/1972 7 document World War 2 Oral history recorded, Frank Keighley, collects memories of the Blitz from local residents Greenock Telegraph 10/11/1983 14 World War 2 Item on the decoys lit to lead the bombers away from the area Greenock Telegraph 09/11/1982 5 World War 2 Memorial book listing those Greenock civilians who died during the war Greenock Telegraph 18/03/1952 5 World War 2 Account of the Blitz in 1941; 6 May p4; 7 may p6; 9 May p9; 23 May p9 Greenock Telegraph 05/05/1981 8 World War 2 Article on industrial disruption that occurred during the Blitz. Criticism and praise for Blitz Greenock Telegraph 13/01/1972 12 services - 14 Jan p5. Reply to critics - 15 Jan p5 World War 2 Photographs and article on the 1941 Blitz- 7 May p8; 13 May p11 Greenock Telegraph 06/05/1971 14 World War 2 Details of the air raid on Greenock and district in 1941 Greenock Telegraph 06/05/1941 2 World War 2 20th anniversary of the Blitz - article and photographs 10 May p6+9; 13 may p4 Greenock Telegraph 08/05/1961 5 World War 2 £1,326,072 collected Greenock Telegraph 11/05/1943 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page World War 2 Cemetery memorial to be unveiled - 7 May p5 Greenock Telegraph 03/05/1951 5 World War 2 Land girls to replace men maintaining the local parks. Greenock Telegraph 28/08/1940 2 World War 2 Article on the Free French troops and their association with Greenock during the War. Visit by Greenock Telegraph 10/06/1982 11 Free French Naval Forces World War 2 Incendiary bomb discovered at 6 Lyle Street Greenock Telegraph 05/08/1982 11 World War 2 Article on the night the U2 submarine was sunk in the Clyde Greenock Telegraph 26/05/1979 9 World War 2 Introduction of clothing rationing Greenock Telegraph 02/06/1941 2 World War 2 Greenock and Port Glasgow have been made evacuation areas Gourock Times 01/08/1941 3 World War 2 Fighting in Europe ends. Celebrations in the district - 10 May p2 Greenock Telegraph 08/05/1945 2 World War 2 Details of number of air raid warnings Greenock Telegraph 30/05/1945 4 World War 2 Report of the Blitz on Greenock, Port Glasgow and Gourock 16 May p3; 6 June p3 Gourock Times 09/05/1941 3 World War 2 3,500 volunteers enrol as street fire fighters Greenock Telegraph 30/01/1941 2 World War 2 Battery Park used as Flying boat base Greenock Telegraph 03/07/1945 2 World War 2 Another bomb found at Beith's Dam Greenock Telegraph 26/09/1981 1 World War 2 Three George Medals and 4 British Empire Decorations given to members of the fire service for Greenock Telegraph 13/09/1941 2 their work during the Blitz World War 2 Article on the work done by the Clyde's boatmen to ensure that all ships were supplied with Greenock Telegraph 01/11/1980 9 necessities during WW2 World War 2 Memories of the arrival of victims from the torpedoed liner Athenia Greenock Telegraph 24/04/1979 5 World War 2 Nazi submarine arrives in Greenock Greenock Telegraph 06/08/1945 2 World War 2 Petrol rationing to be introduced. Coal rationing - 16 Sept p2 Greenock Telegraph 14/09/1939 2 World War 2 Recollections of the blitz in May 1941 Gourock Times 08/05/1942 3 World War 2 Greenock experiences first black out. Preparations - 5 Sept p2; Survivors for torpedoed 'Athenia' Greenock Telegraph 02/09/1939 2 arrive in Greenock - 6 Sept p2, 3 World War 2 Details of celebration - Victory Night Greenock Telegraph 10/06/1946 2 World War 2 Rest Centres planned to help people whose homes are wrecked in air raids Greenock Telegraph 16/09/1940 2 World War 2 Milk rationing to be introduced Greenock Telegraph 20/08/1941 2 World War 2 War Weapon week - hoped to raise a million pounds to build two destroyers. To run in August Greenock Telegraph 26/04/1941 2 24 July p2; Half of total reached - 18 Aug p2; Total reached - 22 Aug p2, 25 Aug p2 World War 2 Introduction of meat rationing Greenock Telegraph 08/03/1940 4 World War 2 Photograph of the Observer Corps stationed on Tower Hill Greenock Telegraph 08/02/1980 10 World War 2 Photograph of part-time firemen during the Blitz Greenock Telegraph 04/03/1977 10 World War 2 Photograph of some of the damage caused by the Blitz Greenock Telegraph 28/07/1950 4 World War 2 Spitfire Fund launched. Target reached - 17 Sept p2 Greenock Telegraph 20/08/1940 2 World War 2 Impression of the projected memorial to the victims of the 1941 Blitz Greenock Telegraph 21/04/1950 7 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page World War 2 Arrival in Greenock of survivors from the torpedoed 'Athenia' Gourock Times 08/09/1939 3 World War 2 Greenock blitzed - loss of life - no Telegraph reports between 6 and 12 May. Account of Blitz - 3 Greenock Telegraph 15/05/1941 2 June p2; 6 June p2; 17 June p2. Photograph 16 Aug p2 World War 2 More air raid shelters to be built Greenock Telegraph 04/10/1939 2 World War 2 Extensive rationing Greenock Telegraph 23/01/1940 1 World War 2 Discovery of a bomb near Beith's Dam Greenock Telegraph 03/09/1981 1 World War 2, Gourock Conclusion of Wings for Victory Gourock Times 14/05/1943 3 World War 2, Gourock Article on the Home Guard which is now to be Stood: down Gourock Times 08/12/1944 3 World War 2, Gourock London dockers who were stationed at Gourock throughout the war return home. Gourock Times 31/08/1945 3 World War 2, Gourock New ambulance wagon provided by local collections handed over to the ARP Authority. Gourock Times 10/04/1942 3 World War 2, Gourock War weapons week opens: Gourock, Greenock & Port Glasgow aim to raise £1,000,000 22nd Gourock Times 15/08/1941 3 Aug. p1, 29th Aug. p3, 5th Sept. p3 World War 2, Gourock Canteen opened for members of the forces at the kiosk. Gourock Times 24/11/1939 1 World War 2, Gourock Recollections of the air raids in 1941 Greenock Telegraph 07/05/1942 2 World War 2, Gourock Details of emergency measures to be taken in Gourock. 1st Sept. p2 Gourock Times 25/08/1939 3 World War 2, Gourock Scrap metal collection: good response from the public. Gourock Times 28/06/1940 2 World War 2, Gourock People of Gourock urged to raise enough money to buy a spitfire. Gourock Times 23/08/1940 3 World War 2, Gourock Queen Elizabeth ends her war associations with Gourock. Gourock Times 10/08/1945 3 World War 2, Gourock Article on the part which Gourock played throughout World War 2 as a major shipping centre Gourock Times 18/05/1945 1 World War 2, Gourock Mock air raid staged to try out the first aid services. Gourock Times 20/10/1939 3 World War 2, Gourock Item on the work undertaken by the Toc H canteen during the war years. Gourock Times 12/10/1945 2 World War 2, Gourock The part that Gourock played throughout the war. 18th May p1 Gourock Times 11/05/1945 1 World War 2, Gourock 2 plaques are to be presented to Laugrine and St. Aubyu in Normandy for D: day Greenock Telegraph 30/05/1979 8 commemorations. World War 2, Gourock Plaque unveiled to mark the building used as a canteen centre during the war. Gourock Times 14/03/1947 3 World War 2, Gourock Roll of honour of those Gourockians who died on active service. Gourock Times 11/03/1949 1 World War 2, Kilmacolm Evacuees arrive to stay in village Greenock Telegraph 09/09/1939 2 World War 2, Kilmacolm Funds needed to help with expenses of evacuees Greenock Telegraph 11/03/1940 2 World War I German steamers captured by Navy brought to the Clyde Greenock Telegraph 06/08/1914 2 World War I, Gourock War weapons week: Gourock raises £24,439 Gourock Times 13/04/1918 3 World War I, Gourock Khaki train on show at Gourock station. Gourock Times 25/09/1915 3 Wrecks, Aircraft Article on the number of aircraft that have been wrecked on the hills between Largs and Greenock Telegraph 10/07/1979 4 Greenock. Wright, Alexander Death of the lessee of the Theatre Royal Greenock Telegraph 24/02/1902 2 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Wright, Margaret Painting by Margaret Wright depicting scenes in the Blitz Gourock Times 30/07/1943 1 Wrights Society Subscribed £100 to Greenock Hospital Greenock Advertiser 20/02/1807 3 Wylie, William (1851-1931) Etching of the Albert Harbour during the 1890s Greenock Telegraph 21/05/1976 11 Yacht Building, Port List of yachts being built. Greenock Telegraph 02/05/1876 3 Glasgow Yachting Article on the great days of yachting on the Clyde. Greenock Telegraph 26/09/1978 8 Yachting, Gourock Memories of the golden days of yachting on the Clyde. Gourock Times 27/05/1977 3 Yachting, Gourock Memories of yachting on the Clyde. 18th Aug. p4 Gourock Times 28/06/1978 3 Yeoman Cavalry Dinner given by Yeoman Cavalry in honour of their retiring officer Roger Aytonn. Greenock Advertiser 11/11/1828 2 Young Men's Christian Closing sermon in annual course f lectures Greenock Advertiser 22/01/1867 2 Association Young Men's Christian Report of 36th annual meeting Greenock Telegraph 15/03/1876 2 Association Young Men's Christian Annual social and business meeting. Greenock Telegraph 31/03/1876 3 Association, Gourock Young Men's Union First of a series of popular lectures Greenock Advertiser 15/11/1850 2 Young, George Item on George Young and his sculptures Greenock Telegraph 08/01/1981 8 Young, Mrs Margaret Mrs Margaret Young appointed as Gourock's first Lady Provost. Gourock Times 11/11/1932 3 Young, Mrs Margaret Obituary of former Provost of Gourock. Gourock Times 19/01/1951 3 Young, Rev John Testimonial held to mark the retirement of Rev john McCallum Young of the Mount Church after Greenock Telegraph 17/10/1983 7 McCallum 50 years in the ministry 21 Oct p11 Young, Rev John Article Greenock Telegraph 07/04/1983 8 McCallum Young, Ronald The poverty and deprivation of the Strone Maukinhill area is singled out for special mention in a Greenock Telegraph 14/12/1983 7 new book by Ronald Young Young's Commercial Young Commercial Hotel, front of Steamboat Quay taken over by James Young. Archibald Greenock Advertiser 11/06/1838 3 Hotel, Greenock Stewart takes over George Inn & Hotel Youth Centre, Gourock The Youth Centre in Binnie St. is criticised by Councillor Gibbs for lack of repair and Gourock Times 02/11/1973 1 maintenance. Youth Centre, Kilmacolm Fears that youth centre in old primary school may be demolished Greenock Telegraph 12/09/1974 13 Youth Club, Port Plan for new Youth Club - drive to raise £5,000. Greenock Telegraph 13/09/1963 8 Glasgow Youth Opportunities Community Services Agency opens to help fund jobs for young people Greenock Telegraph 08/09/1979 7 Programme Youth Organisations Changing fashion in uniforms from 1916 to the present Greenock Telegraph 15/03/1968 8 Youth Organisations Youth clubs may suffer under cash cuts Greenock Telegraph 28/07/1976 9 Subject Entry Newspaper Date Page Youth Organisations Youth clubs may close if leaders cannot be found - Community Education group Greenock Telegraph 26/10/1983 8 Youth Organisations Cutbacks in spending could affect youth organisations in the area Greenock Telegraph 22/07/1982 10 Youth Organisations Torchlight display ends 75th anniversary celebrations Greenock Telegraph 08/11/1982 7