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Bowling Club Prize Giving from 1970’s

Bowling Club Prize Giving from 1970’s

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...
Crosse & Blackwells – Poster

Crosse & Blackwells – Poster

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...
Cruden Bay Playing Cards

Cruden Bay Playing Cards

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...
Old Co-op

Old Co-op

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...
Prefabs

Prefabs

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...
The 2 Cruden Bay Trams

The 2 Cruden Bay Trams

CRUDEN BAY HOTEL To link hotel and station at Cruden Bay the Great North built and operated a short narrow gauge (3′ 6½”) electric tramway—a venture unique among Scottish railways. Two single-deck, four-wheeled tramcars worked the system along with several...