An insight with a photo of a young man Terence McCabe and his trip to France. I only have the first page – if you need the second one, write to me.
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Glengarnock Steel Works Staff Magazine 1922 – James McGinley
Profile on James McGinley, moved to Glengarnock from Coatbridge.
Surnames: Henderson, Hynd, Martin, Aiton, McGinley, Anderson, Morrison, Barclay, Dumphy, Richardson, Connell, Busby, McBride, Robertson, Wood, Ramsay, Stewart, McBlane, Baxter, Reid, Clifford, Vann. (Please check for further names)
Poem by George Robertson, Glengarnock
Glengarnock Steel Staff Magazine July 1922 – Robert Ferguson
Biography of Robert Ferguson
Lots of names in these ones, I cant write all of them:
AH Graham, JH Hill, A. McDowall,
Glengarnock Steel, Staff Magazine 1920s – James Vann Whitelaw
Article about James Vann Whitelaw 1907 – 1979 (Kilbirnie) – my guess would be this edition is around 1925.
Glengarnock Steel Works – Pat Milligan and James Dorrans 1922
The spotlight in this Colvilles Magazine from December 1922 was on two characters with biographies of both men who came from the local area. There are plenty of other names as well of events in and around Kilbirnie and Glengarnock.
Glengarnock Steel Works: War Memorials unveiled (including Kilbirnie) November 1922.
To avoid confusion, let me explain:
- There was a Plaque for both wars inside Glengarnock Church (demolished) and details can be found here on the Imperial War Museum´s site and it resides now in the Auld Kirk of Kilbirnie along with another plaque for their own Kilbirnie parishoners.
- A memorial for WW1 was a plaque attached to a building at the steel works. I have seen it as a boy and I recall that it was on the back of one of the steel works offices. I do not know if that contained names of the second war also. The Colvilles staff magazines in the early 1920s contained a pull out glossy souvenir about those employees who died during the first world war. Details are below.
- A new Plaque was unveiled at Glengarnock Primary School for WWII only but that school has since been demolished – it may have been transferred to the replacement secondary school at Glengarnock. The outdated Imperial war museum entry is here for that one.
- A separate war memorial exists in Kilbirnie at the park gate covering both wars for people who lived in Kilbirnie. The Imperial war museum reference is here.
Details of unveilings for (2) and (4) and are below:
Here is the roll of Honour from the staff magazine about Glengarnock with the Steel works Employee names on there:
Glengarnock Memorial
Glengarnock Memorial
Glengarnock memorial
KIlbirnie Memorial
Kilbirnie Memorial
Hamilton McQueen – Glengarnock Steel Works
Extract from Colvilles Staff Magazine, 1921, (two pages) other names mentioned, An´ra MacDougall, Robert Breckenridge, PA Abernethy, E. Sharp, Avil´s Cottage, Ed Kerr, W Anderson, John Drysdale, GP West, Robert Ferguson, James McArthur, John Busby, Andrew Millar, James Millar, John McGhie, Hugh Aitken, James Robertson, James MacBride, John MacBride, Irvine Clifford, Hugh Blue, Alex McMurray, Robert Irvine, (there are other pictures of him around Kilbirnie and his work with the Salvation Army, if its the same person) John Colville, David Colville,
