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The Common Room / Re: House fire at 'Maryville' in Barrhill Road Gourock around 1937-1938
« on: Tuesday 06 September 16 21:40 BST (UK)  »
Here's a link to the index. There are a lot of titles, but some only cover a very limited period.

https://news.google.com/newspapers

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The Common Room / Re: House fire at 'Maryville' in Barrhill Road Gourock around 1937-1938
« on: Monday 29 August 16 10:01 BST (UK)  »
You're very welcome.

I've been looking at the history of Gourock generally and our street specifically, hence I keep finding gems like these in association with the house names. Basically, I've just kept doing Google searches on {house name Gourock} As more records go online, so I keep finding different results from the same searches on Google.

Maryville is the house next door to ours, or maybe I should say the two houses next door to ours. I've noticed some online posters get the names of houses mixed up, or assume two different names are actually the same house, as the names sometimes appear in both Greenock and Gourock, and there are often variants:
Maryville, Marymount, Normount, Barrwood, Barrhill, Craigard, Craigend, Craigbank, Maybank, and so on.

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The Common Room / Re: House fire at 'Maryville' in Barrhill Road Gourock around 1937-1938
« on: Saturday 27 August 16 21:58 BST (UK)  »
Just found another reference to the fire, in the Gourock Firemaster's report to Gourock Town Council for the month:

http://www.graemekirkwood.co.uk/SFB/Info/GOminutes.htm

There is an extensive report on the fire.


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Renfrewshire / Re: Craigend now CRAIGARD, Gourock
« on: Sunday 05 June 16 17:12 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I'm afraid the Historic Scotland entry is not accurate. It was not compiled by Historic Scotland, but by an amateur researcher who conflated information about two people and misidentified the Craig family who lived here.
Also, the building is no longer listed, but Historic Scotland may not have updated their website yet.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Craigend now CRAIGARD, Gourock
« on: Saturday 04 June 16 12:28 BST (UK)  »
Hello again.
I've done some research into the Craigs, so may be able to help. They had a textile factory in teh east of Glasgow, and offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, where the family had lived before.
The family lived two doors along from here, and John Richardson Craig and his family moved into Craigard in the 1870s.

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The Common Room / Re: House fire at 'Maryville' in Barrhill Road Gourock around 1937-1938
« on: Tuesday 29 December 15 13:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I believe the Google news archive has been removed from the Google menu, but it's still accessible.

If you follow this link,
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19140810&b_mode=2&hl=en
you can search via the Google news bar, which is second top, just below the general Google search.
It'll look for a match in all the papers in the archive.

You can also enter specific dates to search, or browse by issue.

You can also see all the other papers in the archive by clicking 'Browse all newspapers' in the top right corner.

Good luck

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Renfrewshire / Re: Craigend now CRAIGARD, Gourock
« on: Monday 28 December 15 20:11 GMT (UK)  »
I just came across your message, as I stay in Craigard and was looking for anything connected.

You may have found this out by now, but there are lots of 'Craigs' in Gourock, and Craigend is not the same house as Craigard. See this link for a map of Gourock showing the house names. Craigend was built earlier, on the main coast road through Gourock:

http://maps.nls.uk/view/74964679

It's not entirely clear if the original house remains or which it is. The house called Maybank seems to have been replaced by a larger tenement of the same name.

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The Common Room / Re: House fire at 'Maryville' in Barrhill Road Gourock around 1937-1938
« on: Monday 28 December 15 19:00 GMT (UK)  »
The Glasgow Herald has a small report on page 11 of the 8th of May 1937 edition:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19370508&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

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