Cruden Bay Memories

Alan Croxford I spotted this old photo on Cruden Bay Bowling Club page. It is of Badminton Players probably in the 1970s, with a number of Cruden Bay residents in the photo. What was the occaision and can you spot the Cruden Bay residents? Shirley TaylorColin Mckeay...

April 4, 1940 ABERDEEN BON-ACCORD AND NORTHERNCRUDEN BAY BOASTS AN “OCTOGENARIAN STREET”Top—Green Street, Cruden Bay, which might be aptly re-named "Octogenarian Street." Right—Mrs John Summers is going to give her youngest grandchild a sweet out of the bottle she has...

Alan Croxford This is the Countess of Erroll's House with Old Castle Slains in the background. As most of you will know this is located near Collieston. I understand it was constructed in the early 1960s and George Smart my old Technical Teacher at Peterhead Academy...

Alan Croxford This is the Cruden Bay GNSR Hotel in the background with what I assume is the Male Waiting and other Staff posing for their photo. FaceBook link

Alan Croxford Today we have two photos of Norwegian troops that were for sale on ebay. They show the troops training on Cruden Bay Beach. The year was 1941 which of course was the early part of WWII. The troops were stationed at the former LNER Hotel at the Golf...

Bill Phillips There was a post on here a few days ago of a WRI badge, I believe this is a photo of the Cruden WRI, I recognise Gina Robertson, Mrs Coutts, Mrs Daniel and Mrs MacIntosh. Some of you may recognise others. Caroline Williams Which one is Mrs Daniel? Peter...

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...

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...

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,...

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 link

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 goods...

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...

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...

Elizabeth Oates Looking back at prices for a Golfing weekend in Cruden Bay 1932. Including a car to and from the station. FaceBook link42 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...

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...

Alan Croxford This poem about Nethermill is another from Sylvia Munro's book Lilts Frae Cruden Bay by James Ogston, published in 1911. FaceBook linkTHE PINKY BRAES O’ NETHERMILL.In leafy June when fields were gayI took a dander up the glen,Then crossed the bridge and...

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 linkWHINNYFOLD.Come a’ ye sturdy fisher chiels,And sonsie fishwives wi’ yer...

The Railway Station at Cruden Bay ceased its Passenger Service in 1932, the Tram was then only used for the Laundry. To continue a way of passengers getting from Aberdeen to The Cruden Bay Hotel this Rolls Royce was used by LNER to transport passengers back and forth...

Thanks to Sylvia Munro for the loan of James Ogston's 1911 Poetry Book "Lilts Frae Cruden Bay". The book has poems of local interest as well as poems from further afield, such as Rothiemay, Huntly and Hill of Fare, Banchory. The book has a number of Cruden Bay photo...

A RAILWAY POSTER EXHIBITION A delightful poster of Cruden Bay by Frank H. Mason. This was one of the exhibits at the L.N.E.R.’s recent exhibition of Railway Poster Art at the Burlington Galleries, Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly. This was the first exhibition of its...

Bill Phillips I've no info on this one at all, it was among some Cruden Bay photos that were given to me a few years ago. The building behind them looks very much like the village hall. Martha Wells I have this photograph. That's my mother, second row from the front,...

Alan Croxford Cruden Bay. By Alex. Inkson McConnochie. CRUDEN Bay! How strangely the name sounds to one who knew it when, in a manner, it did not exist. True, there has been, of course, “time immemorial” a bay at Cruden, but the Cruden Bay of holiday resort is a...

Elizabeth Oates I have been looking back at some watercolours by my friend Isobel Gregory. We sold all the original paintings then produced the first Cruden Bay Calendar 2009. Isobel Gregory Art & Crafts Grandma Griggly seashore crafts [Best_Wordpress_Gallery...