Cruden Bay Memories

Alan Croxford This poem about Nethermill is another from Sylvia Munro's book Lilts Frae Cruden Bay by James Ogston, published in 1911. FaceBook linkTHE PINKY BRAES O’ NETHERMILL.In leafy June when fields were gayI took a dander up the glen,Then crossed the bridge and...

Alan Croxford A poem by James Ogston about Whinneyfold, it mentions the shipwreck of the Xenia on the Scaurs in Feb 1903. Taken from Sylvia Munro's book Lilts Frae Cruden Bay. FaceBook linkWHINNYFOLD.Come a’ ye sturdy fisher chiels,And sonsie fishwives wi’ yer...

Elizabeth Oates Looking back at prices for a Golfing weekend in Cruden Bay 1932. Including a car to and from the station. FaceBook link42 A GOLFING WEEK-END AT CRUDEN BAY DURING MAY & JUNE including : FIRST OR THIRD CLASS RAIL TRAVEL FULL BOARD AT L.N.E.R. CRUDEN...

The Railway Station at Cruden Bay ceased its Passenger Service in 1932, the Tram was then only used for the Laundry. To continue a way of passengers getting from Aberdeen to The Cruden Bay Hotel this Rolls Royce was used by LNER to transport passengers back and forth...

Thanks to Sylvia Munro for the loan of James Ogston's 1911 Poetry Book "Lilts Frae Cruden Bay". The book has poems of local interest as well as poems from further afield, such as Rothiemay, Huntly and Hill of Fare, Banchory. The book has a number of Cruden Bay photo...

A RAILWAY POSTER EXHIBITION A delightful poster of Cruden Bay by Frank H. Mason. This was one of the exhibits at the L.N.E.R.’s recent exhibition of Railway Poster Art at the Burlington Galleries, Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly. This was the first exhibition of its...

This is Princess Beatrice (Youngest of Queen Victoria's Children) and her Husband Prince Henry of Battenberg. Their wedding day was 23rd July 1885. On the 18th September 1885 they came and stayed for two nights with Lord Erroll at Slains Castle, Cruden Bay. They...

The Scaurs at the Whinnyfold end of Cruden Bay Beach have claimed many Ships and Boats in the past. Here is one such casualty on 18/01/1907, The Star of the Isles. The Crew were saved. At the time of loss it was valued at £5500 but it was only insured for £4800. The...

Alan Croxford Does anyone possess a wishing rock or stone? There was one at Slains Castle in the days of The Earl of Erroll. At the Castle's deplenish sale the stone was bought by James Cruickshank owner of the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel, Cruden Bay. FaceBook link

Alan Croxford Back in the days when the LNER owned the Cruden Bay Hotel, Cruden Bay apeared on sets of playing cards in the Beautiful Britain series. I remember back in the 1960s /1970s my parents Charlotte and Denis were in the Cruden Bay Whist Club. They stored the...

Alan Croxford I like this old fashioned advert for Crosse & Blackwells. My Dad Denis Croxford was a Transport Manager for the Firm in Peterhead from 1963 to 1987. My Step Mother Isobel Coutts was also one of the Industrial Nurses at the Factory. She left Crosse...

Bill Phillips I've no info on this one at all, it was among some Cruden Bay photos that were given to me a few years ago. The building behind them looks very much like the village hall. Martha Wells I have this photograph. That's my mother, second row from the front,...

Alan Croxford Cruden Bay. By Alex. Inkson McConnochie. CRUDEN Bay! How strangely the name sounds to one who knew it when, in a manner, it did not exist. True, there has been, of course, “time immemorial” a bay at Cruden, but the Cruden Bay of holiday resort is a...

Bill Philips The occupants of Castle Road (Prefabs) in the early 1950s FaceBook link Cruden Bay Life Prefabricated Housing on Castle Road, Cruden Bay Post-war housing, local change, and what we actually know In the years following the Second World War, communities...

Alan Croxford A Cruden Bay Bowling Club Prize giving. How many can you name in this Photo thought to be from the 1970s. Richard Clark Back far right Jimmy Mathers,Stuart Mundie to his right,Second from left Johnny Aird 4 from left Jimmy Love next to Jimmy a young...

Members of the Agricultural Section of the British Association at the farm of the Misses Cruickshank, Cruden Bay. The party also visited Tillycairn and Collynie farms (Mr Duthie Webster) and Grandhome (Mr J. D. Paton). In the group are Lord Raglan, Dr Crowther, Mr...

This is Charles Gore Hay, the 20th Earl of Erroll, who lived from 1852 to 1927. He, along with his family, was the last of the Hay Clan to occupy Slains Castle. None of the three subsequent owners lived in the Castle before its eventual Demolition. FaceBook link

Elizabeth Oates I have been looking back at some watercolours by my friend Isobel Gregory. We sold all the original paintings then produced the first Cruden Bay Calendar 2009. FaceBook Link [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="42" gal_title="Isobel Gregory...

Community spirit rises to meet Mr and Mrs Dawson CRUDEN BAY says tangible thanks to SCWS manager and his wife—Mr and Mrs Alfred Dawson, who are leaving for Aboyne—with a refrigerator and box of chocolates—with Mr Witham Burns doing the honours on behalf of the...

Alan Croxford This postcard of Slains Castle is from the 1960s. I know the date because Quintin Murray, one of the Business Men who bought and saved the Golf Course in the early 1950s, had a Caravan on the headland, seen to the right of the Castle. The Caravan which...

Alan Croxford Slains Castle was purchased by Dundee Demolition Contractor Charles Brand in 1925. This Dundee Courier Newspaper article from 17/04/1925 suggests that there was still a chance that Slains Castle could be saved, even if on a reduced scale. Unfortunately...

Here we have HMS Enchantress at Cruden Bay. It is the Admiralty Yacht used by Winston Churchill, when he was First Lord Of The Admiralty. He liked sailing about on it, basically sight seeing when not on official business. He also often invited Prime Minister Herbert...