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Strichen
Strichen is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It sits on the A981, connecting it to New Deer to the southwest and Fraserburgh to the north-northeast, and the B9093, connecting it to New Pitsligo about due west. The village got its name from Lord Strachen. It is situated on the River Ugie at the foothills of Mormond Hill. The Strichen White Horse is constructed of quartz on Mormond Hill, some northeast of Strichen. History There is considerable evidence of local habitation by early man in and around Strichen. Strichen Stone Circle can be found near Strichen House in publicly accessible land. Further south lies the Catto Long Barrow and a number of tumuli. There are several listed buildings within the village. The most significant is the category A listed Strichen Town House constructed to a design by the Aberdeen architect John Smith in 1816. It is described by Historic Scotland as an "excellent example of an early 19th century castellated Town House". Strichen House, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strichen Town House
Strichen Town House is a municipal structure in High Street, Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The building, which was the meeting place of Strichen Parish Council, is a Category A listed building. History The town house was commissioned in the early 19th century by Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat, who was chief of the Fraser clan at the time. The building was designed by John Smith in a mix of Tudor and neoclassical styles, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in 1816. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with a hall block of four bays and a tower facing onto Bridge Street; on the ground floor of the hall block there was a row of four round-headed openings forming an arcade, which was originally open and provided a covered market, in a similar style to John Baxter's Peterhead Town House. There were three sash windows on the first floor of the hall block and a crenellated parapet at roof level. To the right of the hall block, there was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strichen Stone Circle
Strichen stone circle is a Megalithic recumbent stone circle located near Strichen, Aberdeenshire in the north east of Scotland. It has been destroyed twice and in the early 1980s was excavated and reconstructed. General description Strichen circle sits on a hill on a slope close to the ruins of Strichen House, near the village of Strichen in london. In its present state, it contains seven orthostats plus the recumbent stone and its two flankers. The recumbent is around long and tall and is orientated on the south-south-east side of the circle. Investigations and relocations The circle was visited in 1758 by James Boswell with his father. Boswell then returned with Samuel Johnson in 1773, because the lexicographer was interested in seeing a "Druid's Temple". There were four stones standing and Johnson was more impressed by the local woods. The ring was completely destroyed around 1830 by a tenant farmer, who was then compelled to rebuild it by the owner of the land (and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat
Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and 1st Baron Lovat, KT (17 June 1802 – 28 June 1875) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the 21st Chief ''MacShimidh'' of the Clan Fraser of Lovat, succeeding the notorious Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat. Early life Born on 17 June 1802, he was the son of Amelia ( née Leslie) Fraser and Alexander Fraser, 9th of Strichen, a Captain of the 1st Dragoon Guards who died on 28 October 1803, shortly after his birth. His paternal grandparents were Alexander Fraser, 8th of Strichen and Jean (née Menzies) Fraser (a daughter of William Menzies and niece of James Menzies of Culdares). His maternal grandparents were John Leslie, 22nd Baron of Balquhain and the former Violet Dalzell. In 1821, Fraser commissioned Aberdeen architect John Smith to design a country house known as Strichen House. Career In 1815, upon the death of Archibald Campbell Fraser (who outlived all of his children), Fraser became the 21st Chief of the Clan Fraser, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strichen Railway Station
Strichen railway station was a railway station in Strichen, Aberdeenshire. History The station was opened on 24 April 1865 by the Formartine and Buchan Railway The Formartine and Buchan Railway was a railway company operating in the north-east of Scotland. It was built to link the important fishing ports of Fraserburgh and Peterhead with Aberdeen. It had a junction with the main line of the Great Nort .... On the northbound platform was the station building, on the north side was the goods yard and at the west end of the westbound platform was the signal box, which opened in 1891. The station closed on 4 October 1965. References Disused railway stations in Aberdeenshire Beeching closures in Scotland Former Great North of Scotland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965 1865 establishments in Scotland 1965 disestablishments in Scotland {{Aberdeenshire-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Moon
Lorna Moon (born Nora Helen Wilson Low; 16 June 1886 – 1 May 1930) was a Scottish author and screenwriter from the early days of Hollywood. She is best known as the author of the bestselling novel ''Dark Star'' (1929) and as one of the earliest and most successful female screenwriters. As a screenwriter, she developed screenplays for notables including Gloria Swanson, Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore and Greta Garbo. Life She was born in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, in 1886, the daughter of plasterer Charles Low and Margaret Benzies (1863–1945), she was a socialist and an avowed atheist. In 1907 she met William Hebditch, a commercial traveller from Yorkshire who had stayed at the hotel run by her parents; the two were secretly married in Aberdeen and shortly after the couple left Scotland for Alberta in Canada, where Lorna Moon gave birth to her first child, William Hebditch (1908–1990). In 1913 she left Hebditch and fell in with Walter Moon, with whom she had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormond Hill
Mormond Hill (Scottish Gaelic A' Mhormhonadh, meaning the great hill or moor; known as ''Mormounth'' in Old Scots) is a large hill in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, not far from Fraserburgh. Its peak is .''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland'' Frances Hindes Groome (1901), p. 1363 The villages of and New Leeds can be found at its southern foothills. It also has a smattering of disused satellite dishes and masts on top, remnants from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Moon
Lorna Moon (born Nora Helen Wilson Low; 16 June 1886 – 1 May 1930) was a Scottish author and screenwriter from the early days of Hollywood. She is best known as the author of the bestselling novel ''Dark Star'' (1929) and as one of the earliest and most successful female screenwriters. As a screenwriter, she developed screenplays for notables including Gloria Swanson, Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore and Greta Garbo. Life She was born in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, in 1886, the daughter of plasterer Charles Low and Margaret Benzies (1863–1945), she was a socialist and an avowed atheist. In 1907 she met William Hebditch, a commercial traveller from Yorkshire who had stayed at the hotel run by her parents; the two were secretly married in Aberdeen and shortly after the couple left Scotland for Alberta in Canada, where Lorna Moon gave birth to her first child, William Hebditch (1908–1990). In 1913 she left Hebditch and fell in with Walter Moon, with whom she had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formartine And Buchan Railway
The Formartine and Buchan Railway was a railway company operating in the north-east of Scotland. It was built to link the important fishing ports of Fraserburgh and Peterhead with Aberdeen. It had a junction with the main line of the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoS) at . Due to shortage of finance, the line was opened in stages as money became available. The section from Dyce to Mintlaw opened in 1861, and from there to Peterhead in 1862. The Fraserburgh line opened in 1865. The Company was never profitable, and it was heavily supported financially by the GNoSR; it was formally absorbed by that company in 1866. The area served was a good agricultural district, and farm produce supplemented the buoyant fish traffic, which included fishing boats' crews travelling home; there was some leisure business, especially connected with a golf course and hotel sponsored by the GNoSR at Cruden Bay. Ordinary use of the line declined after 1950, although the line fared better than some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Pitsligo
New Pitsligo ( sco, Pitsligae), also known as Cavoch (locally ''Cyaak''), Gazetteer for Scotland. is a village in , Scotland, quite near . Overview A small village in the North East of Scotland, it lies about inland from and around south-west of |
Dennis Nilsen
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years. This recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at Full Sutton maximum security prison. All of Nilsen's murders were committed at the two North London addresses where he lived between 1978 and 1983. His victims would be lured to these addresses through deception and killed by strangulation, sometimes accompanied by drowning. Following each murder, Nilsen would observe a ritual in which he bathed and dressed the victim's body, which he retained for extended periods of time, before dissecting and disposing of the remains by burning t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraserburgh
Fraserburgh (; sco, The Broch or ; gd, A' Bhruaich) is a town in Aberdeenshire (unitary), Aberdeenshire, Scotland with a population recorded in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census at 13,100. It lies at the far northeast corner of Aberdeenshire, about north of Aberdeen, and north of Peterhead. It is the biggest shellfish port in Scotland and one of the largest in Europe, landing over in 2016. Fraserburgh is also a major port for whitefish (fisheries term), white and pelagic fish. History 16th and 17th century: Origins The name of the town means, literally, 'burgh of Fraser', after the Frasers of Philorth, Fraser family that bought the lands of Philorth in 1504 and thereafter brought about major improvement due to investment over the next century. By 1570, the Fraser family had built Fraserburgh Castle at Kinnaird Head and within a year a church was built for the area. Alexander Fraser (died 1623), Sir Alexander Fraser built a port in the town in 1579, obtained a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cruickshank (bacteriologist)
Robert Cruickshank CBE FRSE FRCP FRCPE (26 September 1899 – 16 August 1974) was a Scottish bacteriologist. He did much early work on cancer research and aerobiology, including the airborne spread of streptococcus. He was an expert in the field of epidemiology. Life He was born on 26 September 1899 in the village of Strichen in northern Scotland, into a farming background. He attended school locally then won a place studying medicine at the University of Aberdeen graduating with an MB ChB in 1922. He won the Alexander Anderson Travelling Scholarship, allowing him further study at the Pathology Department of the University of Glasgow. Here he worked with Robert Muir and Carl Browning who each influenced him in his choice of career as a bacteriologist. Initially working in the Hospital For Sick Children in Glasgow he was given a Fellowship in cancer research. In 1928 he was appointed a lecturer in bacteriology at the University of Glasgow while also taking the role of bacteriol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
