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Seafield Wreck
From: Thomas Logan
To: threetowners@ topica.com
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 7:
Subject: [3T] Wreck at Seafield(?) cottages |
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I originate in
Saltcoats, in Argyle Road, and also lived in Lindsay Ave, Sorbie Road
and North Crescent at various times. Married to Jean Terry from
Ardrossan. I haven't been back for a long time, and now live on the east
coast thanks to the oil industry.
I have two questions . Along the North Shore beside to cottages on the
seaward side of the road there is the remains of the wreck of a large
wooden vessel that has been there for many years. When I was a boy (a
very long time ago) there wasn't very much of her left. Does anyone know
her history?
Second question. In the Plantation, at the corner of South Beach Road
and Sorbie Road, just inside the gate, there was a red sandstone slab
with two lifting handles set in the ground. We had a lot of ideas of
what it was for (schoolboys have a lot of imagination) but does anyone
know what it really was?
From: "Hugh
McCallum" <hewmac@xx.com.au>
To: <threetowners@topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000
Hi Thomas and welcome,
I would think it might have had something to do with the mineral springs
that were very popular there up to the 1930s, that is according to the
pictorial booklet "Old Saltcoats". There is a picture of a building
within Holm Plantation with a picket fence around it, above the door is
the sign Mineral Well.
Hugh McCallum
From: Thomas Logan
To: threetowners@ topica.com
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000
Thanks for the reply to my question about the sandstone slab in the
Plantation, but I think the mineral well was a small building at the
Saltcoats end of the 'planny'. It was still there up to about 1950. The
slab was at the Ardrossan end at the corner of South Beach Road and
Sorbie Road, just inside the entrance.
I was interested in Wallace's Larder. We always thought it was the
dungeon but like everyone else never went further in than daylight
reached, not having a torch. But I did go down to the bottom of the well
steps. A bit scary, and rather dangerous looking back, for there was
only a rusty bar to stop you falling in. Have you heard the story that
the well rises and falls with the tide?
Do you remember the old cannons on Castle Hill? They were still there
during the war, overlooking the harbour. Not much use for defence,
though!
Bye the way, I was known as Murray Logan in Saltcoats. Left the Academy
in 1949.
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