Cruden Bay Memories
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...
Cruden Bay Memories
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...
Cruden Bay Memories
Elizabeth Oates Looking back at prices for a Golfing weekend in Cruden Bay 1932. Including a car to and from the station. FaceBook link 42 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...
Cruden Bay Memories
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...
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 link THE PINKY BRAES O’ NETHERMILL. In leafy June when fields were gayI took a dander up the glen,Then crossed the...
Cruden Bay Memories
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 link WHINNYFOLD. Come a’ ye sturdy fisher chiels,And sonsie fishwives wi’ yer...
