Cruden Bay Memories
Alan Croxford Obviously Port Erroll had a Police Station prior to the one opposite St Olaf. 1st photo, This is an advert for Tenders regarding work on plans for the New Police Station which could be seen at Police Station, Port Erroll. Does anyone know where the Old...
Cruden Bay Memories
Alan Croxford Elizabeth Oates Tells me The Mission Hall at Port Erroll has had a sympathetic restoration of its exterior and the internal restoration is ongoing. It will eventually house the Village Archive. Here is a photo from the 1960s when the Morrice Family had...
Cruden Bay Memories
Alan Croxford This is a photo from Port Erroll School. The only person I recognise is the Treacher George Cruikshank. Can anyone put names to faces of the Pupils and identify the year? Kathy Clark Adrian Smith, Gordon Chegwyn, Sandy Wadden, Bowman? , Yan Stringer,...
Cruden Bay Memories
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...
Cruden Bay Memories
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...
Cruden Bay Memories
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...
