Leopard Magazine : the magazine of north-east Scotland : February 2004 - December 2004/January 2005, issue 302 - 311
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Davis, BobMackie, JudyHaigh, DaleCasely, GordonDodds, Ruary MackenzieKynoch, DouglasMcHardy, Kenneth CharlesAnderson, HazelUrquhart, RobinWatson, ArthurRobertson, JohnWilson, FionaDey, George A.O'Boyle, ColmSmith, LindaNorthcroft, DavidPrescott, TomCapanni, NiccoloCheyne, LindyMaison, JimDavidson, JamesBarron, CharlesGrewar, MindyDunn, JohnRobertson, ElizabethDi Maio, MarioJackson, RobinStamm, MarysiaFarquharson, ColinGoodall, PhyllisPaton, SandyDuff, JohnRacey, CillaSmith, BobGtregory, StanStark, JoyceDransart, PennyStewart, AlanBennett, ValerieStewart, AnnaKennedy, JaniceGartly, RossInglis, AnnieCheyne, BillCooper, AlanDonaldson, PeterCheyne-Hamilton, AlisonClemo, Margaret GarsonMcClure, DerrickWilliamson, JakeChristie, JoanHarper, NormanHardie, BuffRobertson, SteveCheyne, SandyPaton, DavidBrown, Fiona-JaneKinnin, HeatherMackie, BillMacKenzie, AmandaBull, FredNicolaisen, BillAllan, CharlieSmith, GordonFenton, SandyFlecher, MoniqueMacari, PeterMcEwen, KenMorton, StanleyFarrow, KenDoran, JohnCameron, AlisonInglis, ForbesBrown, SteveEndersby, GwynGarner, DaveClark, David F.Munro, MaryCoronel, Marla MitchellPhillips, Andrew FultonSemple, ScottLeopard Magazine
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Contents: February 2004, issue 302: Our bonnie tongue: use it or lose it by Norman Harper - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - Taking the long view by by David Paton - When legend touches life by Fiona-Jane Brown - Sharing Strathbeg with Icelandic visitors by Heather Kinnin - Lizzie's treasury of Torry Stories by Bill Mackie - Entrepreneur on personal crusade by Amanda MacKenzie - A world of Aberdeens by Fred Bull - Help collect our N-E fieldnames by Bill Nicolaisen - Where's the magic of pantos past? by Charlie Allan - How to set your garden abuzz by Gordon Smith - Corn or lime kiln? weel, ye ken noo wirds by Sandy Fenton - Women who make a difference by Amanda MacKenzie - Food with a sea view by Monique Flecher - A strange way to collect evidence by Peter Macari - Roadster turns on the style by Ken McEwen - The genes of the mind by Stanley Morton.Illustrations: February 2004, issue 302: Maggie's mother: a portrait of Mrs Minnie Duthie. She and Maggie supplemented their income from the fishing by selling and exchanging fish for milk, bread and cheese from the farms inland - Maggie's mother: Minmnie Duthie regularly walked to New Deer and Maud to sell fish from her creel - Maggie's Hoosie: the boys slept in 'shakie-doons' in the closet, while the girls slept in the box bed in the but - Grate times: originally they would have burned peat and had a 'hingin lum' for the pots, the smoke filtering through the thatch - Kitchen: the dresser in the corner displayed the good ornaments, brought back by Maggie's father and brothers - Maggie Duthie: Maggie sent the young lads of the village to the dunes to collect buckets of fine white sand for her floor.Contents: March 2004, issue 303: Mystery of planners' mathematics by Bill Mackie - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - The sorry tale of Scotland's arid fountains by Ken Farrow - Variation on a virtuoso theme by John Doran- The boy who couldn't say 'No' by Norman Harper - Uncovering Seaton's old crocks, pots and pitchers by Alison Cameron - Finest spot under the equatorial sun by Charlie Allan - Glenesk hign jinks immortalised in song by Sandy Fenton - Wearing her art on her sleeve by Amanda MacKenzie - Italian lunch by the Ythan by Monique Flecher - How early do we mean by early? by Bill Nicholaisen - Harmless addictions and honorable vices by Gordon Smith - Saab goes topless for summer by Ken McEwen - The positive advantage of age by Forbes Inglis.Illustrations: March 2004, issue 303: Fountain: Duthie Park, Aberdeen - Fountain: St Cyrus - Fountain - Rosehearty - Fountain: Huntly - Evelyn Glennie - Frilled plant pots: from Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collections, made during the Mills period.They were made by taking a regular pot and pinching the rim by hand - Cream bowl: well-known locally, these dairy bowls are often inscribed with the name of the recipient and the date - Discarded: a dump of internally-glazed bowls had been thrown into the garden of the cottage next door to the pottery - Kiln spacers: fragments included L-shaped spacers used to keep the pots apart in the kiln - Paintings by Eric Auld: Castle Fraser (autumn), Sun and snow, Alford beasts, Westerton, Autumn evening, Sheep and shepherd, Logie Durno trees, Pitcaple piggies, Road and rail, Harlaw monument, Balfluig Castle and Rowan tree path.Contents: April 2004, issue 304: Doonside o' deep-pooched dungars by Norman Harper - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - One man's Aberdeen by Fred Bull - The birdman's-eye view of Scotland by Steve Brown - Newest jewel inthe Moray crown by Gwyn Endersby - Hands-on restorer of our heritage by John Doran - Hip-hopping back to life by Dave Garner - Tracks of the big cat? by David F Clark - Make mine a meze at the Moonfish by Monique Flecher - Delights o duncin at Dinnet by Mary Munro - Little bit of Egypt by the north Sea - Splurge on spring greens by Gordon Smith - 'Rep' car goes aspirational by Ken McEwen - Cooking like mother never made by Bill Mackie - How scarcity o mussels forced progress by Sandy Fenton - The tunnel by Andrew Fulton Phillips.Illustrations: April 2004, issue 304: Terpersie Castle: a sad shadow of its former self; the roof and walls had collapsed and trees grew in the geat hall - Restored: a civil engineer advised Historic Scotland that Terpersie was beyond repair. Alistair Urquhart disagreed.Contents: May 2004, issue 305: Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - Healing is in the eye of the beholder by Scott Semple - Wild flowers on the verge of disaster by Bob Davis - A trip to the edge of the known world by Monique Flecher - Tale of two fragrant favourites by Gordon Smith - Northern lights shine bright by Monique Flecher - Mitsubishi broadens its appeal by Ken McEwen - Paradise replaces Grandpa's kitchen - Secrets of the slim blue book by Norman Harper - Be grateful for a Roman camp by Bill Nicolaisen - Chucking out time by Judy Mackie.Illustrations: May 2004, issue 305: Glentanar Dramatic Society in the forites: Hector Skene (gardener), Charlie Gault (headmaster Glentanar School), Albert Collie, Rev Sawyers, Bill Ewen (lumberjack), Douglas Cameron and Maggie Summers - Castle Lighthouse: guide Lawrence Buchan at Kinnaird Head, Scotland's only lighthouse in a castle - Lens in the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh - Fountain, Saltoun Place, Fraserburgh - Burial mound: Memsie Cairn may be just a pile of stones but it can be dated to 1700BC - Pennan looking east - Mounthooly Doocot -.Contents: June/July 2004, issue 306: Laughs for lunch at Norwood Hall - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - Bringing the past back to life by Dale Haigh - Traditional mating rites and wrongs by Bill Mackie - A champion dayfor pied pipers by Gordon Casely - Flighty world of the dragonfly by Ruary Mackenzie Dodds - Ackie's rare remedy for insomnia by Norman Harper - Our unsung souter poet by Douglas Kynoch - Beating for the toffs at Candacraig - There's gold in them thar mill dams by Charlie Allan - The future of Scotland's past by Hazel Anderson and Robin Urquhart - Wark o the weaver is rewarded in the US by Arthur Watson - Deeside: grandeur that never fades by Monique Flecher - The mystery of Culter's mannie on the rock by John Robertson - Love in a cold climate by Fiona Wilson - Sure of a welcome at the Atholl by Monique Flecher - Hard as nails: the old school of rock climbing by George A Dey - Donna takes a trick with Harvey Nic by Amanda MacKenzie.Contents: June/July 2004, issue 306:The definitive voice of Scotland by Colm O'Boyle - High jinks in e hoose 'at squeakit by Sandy Fenton - Putting the fun back in football by Monique Flecher - Opulent poppies from near and far by Gordon Smith - Anyone for the Golf? by Ken McEwen - Doune murder by Linda Smith.Illustrations: June/July 2004, issue 306: The flea pit, east Tornahaish: a shooting party at Candacraig in the Edwardian period - Freshly shod: the Candacraig ponies - West Tornahaish, 1937: a line of beaters and two flankers, Jimmy McGregor, Tornahaish Jimmy Robertson, The Cottars, Johnny Massie, The Smiddy, Jimmy Smith, council houses, Charlie Anderson, Newe, Charlie Elrick, Heughhead, Jimmy Don, Cummerton, Kenneth McHardy, Faichla, Bill Davidson, The Cottars, Cecil Moir, Mill of Conrie, Robbie Anderson, Torranbuie, Bill Elrick, Heughhead, Sandy McDonald, Tulloch - Ready for action: the author's first day at the grouse beating in 1937 - The Boggach: the ruin as it is today, hemmed in by a tree plantation - On the hill: the author's father Charles McHardy is on the left, his grandfather Alexander McHardy is carrying the gun, holding the pony is Walter Stuart - Norman Kennedy -Crathes Castle - Crathes Castle garden - Jock the Giant: a sculpture by Keiji Nagahiro in the grounds of the Milton Gallery.Illustrations: June/July 2004, issue 306: The oldest village on Deeside: Kincardine O'Neil is dominated by the ruined St Mary's Kirk and is probably the site of the first church, built by the village's patron saint, St Erchard, in the fifth century. The first bridge on Deeside was built here around 1220 - Scolty monument - Sarah's Showcase - Green heat of Aboyne: the wide sweeping road is bounded by grand granite houses and the Green dominates the centre of the town - View in a million: Potarch Bridge isa traditional stopping place - The wounded Dardarus stone - Mannie of myth: what probably started out as a bit of a prank soon became an essental part of the scenery for people leaving the western edge of Peterculter - A close-up of the current statue - Rob Roy III: On February 2 the Heritage Trust bought Rob Roy at auction for £8,360 - Atholl Hotel, King's Gate, Aberdeen - Dining in style: there is an elegance about the tablecloths, cloth napkins and fresh flowers.Illustrations: June/July 2004, issue 306: At ease: relaxing in Glen Dee after a climb, Charlie Petrie, Mac Smith, Kenny Winram - Lui Beg bothy: winter 1950-51, John Tewnion, Sandy Russell, Ken Winram, Bob Porter, John Morgan - Urban appeal: Donna's handwork now sells in London, Tokyo and New York - That fluffy feeling: a first collection on a childhood theme using chunky felt, fluffy yarns and colourful buttons.Contents: August 2004, issue 307: Doric from the mouths of babes by Norman Harper - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - Saints who left their names behind by Sandy Fenton - Word trail that led to Mons Graupius - Aberdeen'sman for all seasons by David Northcroft - The much-maligned moth by Tom Prescott - King of the granite carvers by Douglas Kynoch - Carrying the torch for a noble art by Niccolo Capanni - Pub grub that's shore to please by Monique Flecher - Taste all flavours of the rainbow by Fiona Wilson - Artist turned gardener shows his colours by Gordon Smith - Going the distance with a diesel by Ken McEwen - She only ever fainted twice by Ruary Dodds.Illustrations: August 2004, issue 307: The Roman route to Mons Graupius - James Scotland - Speech and drama: James Scotland with the speech and drama graduates of Aberdeen College of Education in 1977, Annie Inglis, Charles Barron, Nicky Triplett (Bursill) , Phil McMillan, Derek Ross, Carol Strang (Niven), John Smith, Alan Nicol, Magda Day, Sue Davidson, Kate Martin, Barbara Smith (McLuskie), Sylvia Robinson (Mackie) - Rhynie war memorial - Robert Warrack Morrison - Scottish champions: Claire Jamieson and Niccolo Capanni - Choose your weapons: Claire Jamieson and Niccolo Capanni at sabre practice in Aberdeen - The Shore Inn, Church Street, Portsoy - Portsoy from the harbour.Contents: September 2004, issue 308: Giving kids wrong fitba message by Bill Mackie - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - The message boy who became a tycoon twice by Lindy Cheyne - Pathway to wisdom on our hills by Jim Maison - The Davidsons are on the march by Bill Nicolaisen - In pursuit of the shrew by James Davidson - No banter please, we're N-Easters by Norman Harper - Life of Buchan cattleman is immortalised on stage by Charles Barron - A man ahead of his time by Mindy Grewar - Finella: lovely lady with a steamy past by John Dunn - Floral plan allows no second chances by Gordon Smith - Land Rover's newest lean, mean sporty machine by Ken McEwen - Mimie goes to a birthday party by Elizabeth Robertson.Illustrations: September 2004, issue 308: James Milne - Clan chief Alister (Jock) and his Mary Davidson with some of the clan during the last major Gathering at Newtonmore in 2001- David Toulmin: after becoming an honourary Master of Literature at the University of Aberdeen in 1986 - David Toulmin strolling along Schoolhill, Aberdeen - The cast, Scott Armstrong, Yvonne Morton, Ken McRae, Roddy Begg (director), Jill Hay, Charles Barron, Sheila Reid - Patrick Geddes - Inspirational: 'Place' neon at the Shell House, Stonehaven, by Kenny Munro, clebrating the local community, was inspired by Geddes -.Contents: October 2004, issue 309: A brave new life for Butchers' Park by Charlie Allan - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - - Paying for the privilege by Mario Di Maio - Cool school rises from the ashes - The horns of adilemma by Robin Jackson - How to have your fungi and eat them by Marysia Stamm - Six remarkable days for a boy from the Broch by Colin Farquharson - Spite and envy, our favourite sins by Norman Harper - Tulips in stunning profusion by Gordon Smith - Theargument you'll never win by Phyllis Goodall - Auchterless throws light on life by Sandy Fenton - Restaurant sheds its tearoom tag - Haloween is a spooky voyage of discovery - Revelation of the N E nature: warts and all by Douglas Kynoch - Driving force in the UK market by Ken McEwen - The mole hunt by Sandy Paton.Illustrations: October 2004, issue 309: Backy's bench: Tina Barclay, Fiona Allan, Neil Purdie, Sarah Purdie - Port Errol Primary School, Cruden Bay - Auchanachie House, Rothiemay - Horn of Leys: given in 1323, according to the Burnett family, to an ancestor by Robert the Bruce but not in the early inventories - Hippopotamus: the Horn of Leys is almost certainly made from the lower canine of a hippopotamus - stronger, whiter and less liable to break than elephant ivory - The Sapi-Portuguese Horn: did theHorn of Leys miraculously anticipate the style of ivory sculptures made by Sapi craftsmen in Sierra Leone nearly 200 years later?- Jordan Findlay - Jordan with proud dad Ian Findlay - Deco dream: glittering pillars of mirrored tiles catch the eye wherever you sit.Contents: November 2004, issue 310: Rescued diary tells of wartime life by Bill Mackie - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - The Doric danger zone extends by Norman Harper - Scotland's tradition is Shepherd's delight by Lindy Cheyne - Three men of Mar by John Duff - A hilltop that time forgot by Ken Farrow - The doughty garron: a pony for life by Cilla Racey - Songs of Greenland heroes by Bob Smith - The Cock and Bull story: a new angle on traditional fare by Monique Flecher - The cones that gladden by Gordon Smith - How Junner the engineer got his name by Bill Nicolaisen - The conundrum of council taxes by Stan Gregory - Secret of the Moons of Saturn by Joyce Stark.Illustrations: November 2004, issue 310: Robbie Shepherd - Garlogie Four: Duckie Smith, Esma Shepherd, Ronnie Massie, Robbie Shepherd - Tullos Hill - Vista of the city - The path from the caravan - Cat Cairn, around 4000 years old - The unsightly metal poles on he Baron's Cairn - Top of the world: Cilla and Paul Racey on crossbreeds on Offa's Dyke - Pony for all seasons: the garron will endure the deepest snow, digging through the covering to get to the vegetation below - Peterhead whaler: these were themen, some merely boys, who went whaling more than a century ago, facing deadly Arctic conditions in the hope of making their fortune - The Davis Straits: sixteen British ships were lost here in 1830. At one time 1000 men were camped on the ice, drinking rum salvaged from the wrecks. This painting became known as the Baffin Fair - Death of a whaler: a seaman from the outgoing whaler Mazinthien is rescued by breeches buoy after the vessel struck rocks off Peterhead in 1883. Her crew of 50 were saved.Illustrations: November 2004, issue 310: The Cock and Bull, Balmedie.Contents: December 2004 / January 2005, issue 311: Correspondence from literary giants by Charlie Allan - Councillor Swick by Buff Hardie, Steve Robertson and Sandy Cheyne - Rate N-E man's present imperfect by Normand Harper - Unearthing secrets of the Fetternear bishop's palace by Penny Dransart - Teenage wartime diarist revealed by Bill Mackie - Sled dogs are barrels of fun by Alan Stewart - Architect the city forgot by Valerie Bennett - Oh, I wish I wis back in Dubrovnik by Sandy Fenton - Of brides, betrothals...and brutal bleckenins by Anna Stewart - Night the bridge fell down by Gordon Casely - The hunter and the bee by Janice Kennedy - How the Baxters got their name by Bill Nicolaisen - 200 years without slumbering, Gartly clocks tick on by Ross Gartly - There is nothing like a dame! by Annie Inglis - Shankland's miracle portrait is a winner by Bill Cheyne - All the charm of Vienna by Alan Cooper - Home-grown stars at the Music Hall - A great partnership reaches for the stars by Amanda Booth.Contents: December 2004 / January 2005, issue 311: A circle not seen in a thousand years by Peter Donaldson - Knockando needs grist for the mill by Alison Cheyne-Hamilton - Wartime road that led to Insch by Margaret Garson Clemo - In praise of neglected poets by Derrick McClure - New look to an old favourite by Monique Flecher - Be grateful for holly and the ivy by Gordon Smith - Addressing the 21st century haggis by Jake Williamson - And now for something completely different...by Ken McEwen - A guid New Year by Joan Christie.Illustrations: December 2004 / January 2005, issue 311: Bishop's palace, Fetternear - In the ditch: among the18th-century building rubble in the ditch were 17th-century ceramics including sherds of a North Italian marbled lion head costrel - Excavation: the 2003 and 2004 excavations explored the area in front of the towerhouse where a wing containing at least two rooms ran north-south - New artery: John Smith designed much of King Street including the County Record Office and the North Church which was later to become the Arts Centre - The bleckenin: still observed in some villages today, the groom can be grateful that stove black is no longer used - Re-enactment: the author, Anna Stewart, dressed for the part of Isy's Wull's Jean's Kit who, as long as she was able, never missed a bridal party - Feet washin: the women of the family solemnly wash and dry the bride's feet, a cleansing ritual to ward off evil spirits.Illustrations: December 2004 / January 2005, issue 311: Carryin o' the dishes: the bride's china was carried ceremoniously in creels to her new home, to be arranged by the older women - Clockmakers of repute: among Gartly's young apprentices were Alex Will of Aberdeen, Booth of Inverurie and William Ross of Huntly - The most famous clock: purchased for Glamis Castle in 1811. The escapement is Graham deadbeatwith the teeth at right angles to the wheel rather than on its edge - Grandest dame: Harry Gordon dressed for a snow scene in 1945. He said that the costume 'fair biled' him - Fun at the Beach: this 1942 Beach Pavillion programme cover was designed by Harry Gordon - Stephen Shankland with his wife Kelly, their son Connor and the winning painting 'Themiracle' - The Deeside Orchestra invites you to drink, feast and dance the night away to music by the Strauss Family and their contemporaries - Conductor Andy Linklater.Illustrations: December 2004 / January 2005, issue 311: Lisa Milne stars with her fiance Paul Anderson. The performance is in aid of a charity dear to Lisa's heart, the Council for Music in Hospitals - Deeside fiddler Paul Anderson, Hector McAndrew's greatest pupil - The MsFits: Fiona Knowles in two of her great character parts from Catch a Falling Star - The eye deceived: Peter Donaldson's artfully conceived cutouts fill in the gaps of the Candlehill circle near Old Rayne - The plot of Peter Donaldson'sdowsed findings - Knockando Wool Mill - German POW's at Insch: camp clerk Hans (Jack) Kratzsch is standing far right. Most of the POW's in the camp had been captured in Tunisia in 1942. Although wearing dark British uniforms, three of the men are still wearing their sand coloured Africa Korps caps from the desert campaign - Cookhouse detail: two cooks with helpers at Insch. Jack Kratzsch is second from the right - Allan Ramsay - Rev John Skinner - Robert Ferguson - Dizzy's Restaurant, Carden Place, Aberde.
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InverallochyLizzie FinlaysonProfessor Charles P SkeneAberdeen soroptimistsFiona WatsonCove Bay HotelSarah Keay, jewellerCasa Salvatore, EllonMichael TaittEgypt FarmRugbySealed Knot SocietyFraser's DragoonsStrathdonWilliam Knight, poetScottish Archive NetworkGeorge Washington WilsonJames Clerk MaxwellNorman KennedyBanchoryRob Roy MacregorDonna Wilson, HuntlyJames ScotlandRobert Warrack MorrisonSteam thresher, AuchenbaeCarron Restaurant, Cameron Street, StonehavenJohn LamontJohann von LamontJohn McPhersonJohn GrantJohn Gartly, clockmaker, 1749 -1827Fraserburgh Junior Arts SocietyInverurie Town Hall Pantomime
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