Millennium moments : 100 years in Buchan : in four parts, 1900 - 1925, 1925 - 1950, 1950 - 1975, 1975 - 2000
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Contents: 1900 - 1925: Port Errol: the Brighton of Aberdeenshire - New hall for Stuartfield - From Scotland to Norway: the first flight across the North Sea - Inaugural trip of first passenger train: July 31, 1987, Boddam to Ellon - Fishing: where the whole family got involved - Victoria is dead! record reign is ended - Peterhead as a harbour of refuge - German trawler aground at Cruden Bay - Smallpox rumour - Locals serving in South Africa - 20th century herring boom - It's war! - That's entertainment.Contents: 1925 - 1950: From the roaring trwenties to the post-war blues - Queen Nancy the First - Nine lost at sea: the Olive Branch - Personal memories from land and sea by George Forman - Buchan at war: 1939 - 1945.Contents: 1950 - 1975: A thriving town in the 1950's - Council made history - Fire station opened - Slippery situation - First-ever Scottish Week: 1962, when it all began - A prince comes home - Auchnagatt new schoolhouse - Playing fields opened: July 1962 - Lifeboat christened - Scotland's most famous prison.Contents: 1975 - 2000: 25 years of growth and change, catering for a growing population of 25,000: from St Fergus to Alex Salmond it was a period of massive growth and change - Building a new Academy - New tanker jetty built - Some very fishy tales - Getting to the point - Alexander Elliot Salmond - By Royal command - The passing of Lord Boothby - Building for the future - This sporting life - Forever ruled by the sea - The end of a coastguard era - In the eye of a hurricane - Within these walls life goes on.Illustrations: 1900 - 1925: Jack's Little Wonder: the place to go bargain hunting - The gutting quines are busy packing the herring into barrels - A host of Peterhead boats line up along this busy pier - The elegant Cruden Bay Hotel, built at a cost of around £22,000 in 1899 - A view of Roanheads from North Harbour - An artist's impression of Stuartfield Hall as it appeared in the Buchan Observer on Aprtil 17th, 1900 -Peterhead Harbour taken around 1850, as the sailing vessels head out to sea - The Queen(Victoria)is dead! - Long live King Edward VIII - The opening of the South Harbour in 1908 - Pictured here is the South Harbour with the old fish market, which was built in 1900, in the background.Illustrations: 1900 - 1925: This postcard shows on the right the Prison Medical Offiver and Clergyman's houses. The large building is '18 quarter' which, as the name indicates, contained 18 flats. On the left, the black corrugated iron sheeted building was the prison officers' club where many a social event involving the town's people was held. We might wonder whose parents, grand and great grandparents those children in the foreground are - First World War troops from Peterhead pictured here.Illustrations: 1925 - 1950: Jessie Ann Forman is pictured here mending a drift net around 1946 - This picture was taken at Gorelston with Willie Alexander, the foreman, and Irish and Stornoway gutters. Wee Peterhead loon Benzie Cordiner is pictured with his broken arm, and Aikie Cordiner is at the side. This was taken during the Yarmouth fishing of 1929 - Pulling in the drift nets in the late 1940s aboard the Faithful - George Forman's father, Jake with the crew of the Craig Lynne at Yarmouth in 1947 - The Ephrata docks in Peterhead - And so back to sea: fishing boats moored on the slipway at Peterhead - If one picture could capture the effect tat German bombing raids wrought on Peterhead this must be it. Locals dig for survivors after these homes collapsed like a house of cards following a raid in 1941 - Another bombing raid leaves those who surviced to count the cost - The process of bringing out the dead became an all too-familiar sight.Illustrations: 1925 - 1950: Bread is sold in the streets of Peterhead in the aftermath of another raid - This home made Anderson-type shelter withstood a bombing raid in August 1941 - Fighting back: Mustang IV's of No 65 'East India' Squadron at Peterhead, with long range auxiliary fuel tanks fitted beneath the wings - Hope: a young survivor from a German bombing raid on Peterhead - 'The last sweep up' is a picture from June 1935, in which a Mr Law is seen here leaving his century old cottage, the last of the Peterhead brick field houses. The vintage homes were demolished to make way for the new bathing pavilion being erected by Peterhead Toown Council - The Stuartfield Army Cadet Force at Budden Summer Camp, believed to have been taken in the late 1940's to early 1950's: Bill Fraser, Eddie Wallacw, Ian Leslie, Peter Elrick, Billy Barclay, Harry Smart, Jimmy Wells, Scott Keith.Illustrations: 1925 - 1950: This picture featrures the Peterhead Football Club team of 1931-32, the year that the Blue Toon first joined the Highland League. The tream's first game was against Inverness Citadel at the Recreation Park in August 1931, withInverness coming out on top with a 3 - 1 victory. Scoring the first Paterhead goal in the Highland League was Joe Davidson, who is the last surviving member of the team. He is currently a resident of Kirkburn Nursing Home and is 90 years young! Pictured in the photograph are team members as follows: J Campbell (director), G Forrest, A Smith, A Henderson, W Scoptt, A Whyte, J Reid (trainer), K Wedderburn (treasurer), J Davidson, P Duncan, A Angus, A Duthie, L Brinham, M Muir.Illustrations: 1950 - 1975: pictured here is the 1954 Peterhead Golf Club: W Petrie, A Simpson, J Duthie, R Leslie, A Brown, J Nicol (snr), E Lawson, P McKenzie, J Stephen, J Boyes, J Nicol (jnr), A Will, A Geary, K Stephen, H Ralph - Mrs Margaret Christoffersen - Miss Maisie Clubb - Miss Margaret Cassie - Taking a break from their festivities are the staff from Wioolworths in Peterhead, who were enjoying their annual staff dance back in 1954. In the picture are Jimmy White, David Mitchell, John Robinson, Catherine Urquhart, Joe Baird, Sandy Murison, May McLean, Dawson Morrison, Miss McGilvery, Mr Barclay, Andy Duthie, Mary Barclay and Sandy Durno - Pictured is P Scrogie's managing director, Michael Robertson, receiving a gift on the occasion of his marriage to Annette on 5th September 1970. Also in the picture are Bert Marioni, Graham Hood, Charles Brown, Peter Collins, Bert Blow, Tooshie Ellis.Illustrations: 1950 - 1975: Here is the Peterhead Academy Preparatory Class of 1951. This jovial bunch are Peter Anderson, Alan Geddes, James Elder, Bruce Wedderburn, Alistair Duncan, Margaret Blow, Dorothy Hocking, Catherine Angus, Morna Duthie, Silvia Sutherland, Dorothy Spence, Netta Buchan, Margaret Buchan, Hilda Jamieson, Helen Buchan, May Falconer, Jean Sutherland, Joyce Ainsworth, Myra Nicol, Cathy Christie, and Margaret Geddes - Peterhead welcomed a Royal visitor in 1962, when HRH Princess Margaret came to the Blue Toon to officially open the maternity wing of the Cottage Hospital. The Princess viewed the hi-tech facilities of the day during a tour of the building - Here is a picture of a herring crew, two gutters and a packer, from around 1960. The picture was taken at Bob Nicol's yard in Peterhead, oppsite the slip where Chris Anderson's yard is today. Pictured are Kena Reid, Lizzie Geddes (Porter) and Vina Studard (Summers) - Peterhead Prison.Illustrations: 1975 - 2000: Operators from British Gas and Total Oil Marine were pushing ahead with the development of the £7 million terminal at St Fergus back in February 1976. An article in the Buchan Observer on 10 February stated that a close study could establish the condensate storage tanks and control complex on the Total site, the four compressor cabs on the phase one compressor development and the base foundations of the four second phase compressors. Toward the rear of the British Gas terminal trhere was a control building - A view of the new tanker jetty at Peterhead, which was opened by Minister of State, Gregor McKenzie - In October 1977 the heaviest fish taken from the River Ugie was a 22.5lb cock salmon, which was landed by Peterhead angler James L Taylor of 81 Forman Drive. He made his strike in Johnston's Pool on the upper reaches and took half-an-hour to land the monster - Alexander Elliot Salmond was first elected MP for Banff and Buchan in June 1987.Illustrations: 1975 - 2000: Buchan has played host to a series of Royal visits during the past 25 years including two from Prince Charles and one from Princess Anne - Peterhead Football Club players are pictured here with the Qualifying Cup, pictured before their second roung Scottish Cup tie against Queens Park at Recreation Park in January 1979: D Graham (trainer), N Porter, A Rennie, G Masson, J Sievwright, H McHattie, J Taylor, W Lawson, C Grant (manmager), I Jamieson, F Andrew, A Christie, G McIntyre, C Duncan, R Hunter, J Hamliton and C Middler - The Peterhead Branch of the Aberdeen FC Supporters Club chose keeper Jim Leighton as their Player of the Year and he was presented with his trophy by John Joiner at a dinner and dance in the Clerkhill Rendezvous in April 1981. Present were AFC manager, Alex Ferguson, assistant managetr, Archie Knox and centre half, Alex McLeish.Illustrations: 1975 - 2000: Graham Bridgeford was presented with the Athlete of the Year trophy by Rob McLean, sports editor of Northsound Radio, during Peterhead Amateur Athletic Club's prizegiving ceremony in October 1981- On October 1997 the entire community of Buchan was thrown into mourning after the Peterhead fishing vessel Sapphire sank just fifteen miles from her home port with the loss of four of her five man crew - Peterhead prison.
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Ab1E11
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English
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Nancy Auld, Peterhead Herring Queen 1939Miss Mary SmithMiss Madge RitchieGeorge Forbes and Company Limited (shipbuilders)Regal Cinema, PeterheadMrs Murray MackieJames and Mariska JoiceyStuart HepburnCarkson Tools factory fireMitchell Bain
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183500