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...
