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CRUDEN BAY FIRE – 21 HOMELESS

ALL THAT REMAINS OF FIVE FAMILIES’ POSSESSIONS Bedding, clothing, and furniture strewn over the braeside in the sunshine – the scene during yesterday’s fire at Cruden Bay, in which five families lost their homes. CRUDEN BAY FIRE – 21 HOMELESSFALLING SLATE STRIKES...

Edgars reaches the grand old age of 65 (1938 – 2003)

Findlay Collection

EDGARS in Cruden Bay reaches the ripe old age of 65 on Sunday. Current owner Aileen Ritchie and her husband Colin have absolutely no plans of retiring the ever-popular village shop – despite it reaching that age. But they took a trip down memory lane and came up...

The Spark That Ended an Era: The Cruden Bay Station Fire

Findlay Collection

Fire at Cruden Bay station Following on from our recent old photograph of Cruden Bay station, Mr Alan Middleton, Roselea, Bridge Street, Cruden Bay, handed in this photograph of the fire at the station, taken around 1930. The fire was believed to have been started by...

BULLERS OF BUCHAN TRAGEDY

Findlay Collection, Wistow Hall

Gordon Findlay has kindly provided a copy of The Evening Gazette, published in Aberdeen on Friday, January 19th, 1912 (cost one halfpenny). It features the following graphic account of the loss of the Wistow Hall and its crew on page 5 of this broadsheet publication,...