Sandford Lodge is a Category B
listed building
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in
Peterhead
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,
Aberdeenshire
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, Scotland. A former
farmhouse
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, described by
Charles McKean
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McKean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 16 July 1946. He was educated at Fettes College, the University of Po ...
as a "miniature mansion house",
it was built around 1800; today, only the shell of the building remains, after a fire in the early hours of 8 August 2015.
James Skelton (1799–1882), sheriff substitute of Peterhead and possibly the original owner,
[''Six Buchan Villages: Re-visited'', Margaret Aitken (2004), p. 135 ] was resident at the lodge in 1856. His wife was Margaret Marjory (
née
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Kinnear) (1805–1878). Their only daughter, Janet Georgina (1832–1860), wed
James Mitchell, minister of Peterhead's Deer Church, at the lodge on 7 September 1859, but she died the following year, aged 27. Their son was Sir
John Skelton John Skelton may refer to:
*John Skelton (poet) (c.1460–1529), English poet.
* John de Skelton, MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
*John Skelton (died 1439), MP for Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)
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.
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William Aiton lived there in 1873. He was one of the original contractors for the construction of the ]Suez Canal
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, and was also contracted for the Maybole and Girvan Railway
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. In April and May 1865 he worked with Thomas Inglis of Glasgow on a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza. He died in February 1893, being "upwards of 70 years of age".
In the early 19th century, the lodge was the home of Private Robert Willox, of the Gordon Highlanders
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. He died as a prisoner of war
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in the Second World War
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on 7 June 1943, aged 25, after suffering from beriberi
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, and was buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Kanchanaburi
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, Thailand. He lived at the lodge with his parents, James and Margaret, of whom he was one of ten children. His parents are buried in Longside Cemetery, Longside
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It ...
, near Peterhead.
G. Anderson lived at the lodge in the late 19th century.
James Sutherland (1851–1933) later ran his "great transport business in Peterhead" from the property. The business was a bus operator
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. "During his tenancy of the Sandford farm he had a grieve called Sandy Christie, and the foreman's name was Fordyce," wrote David Toulmin.[''A Chiel Among Them: A Scots Miscellany'', David Toulmin (1982) ]
Peterhead Power Station was built adjacent to the property in 1978.
Gallery
File:Sandford Lodge.jpg, Pictured in 2018, three years after the fire that gutted the building
File:Sandford Lodge 2.jpg, The rear of the property
See also
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References
External links
Sandford Lodge
– Historic Environment Scotland
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Sandford Lodge
– Canmore.org.uk
Sandford Lodge
– Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland
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Category B listed buildings in Aberdeenshire
Listed buildings in Peterhead
Farmhouses in Scotland
19th-century establishments in Scotland