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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 Ho ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat
Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and 1st Baron Lovat, (17 June 1802 – 28 June 1875) was a Scotland, Scottish nobleman. He was the 21st Chief ''MacShimidh'' of Clan Fraser of Lovat, succeeding to the title of his distant cousin, the Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, 11th Lord Lovat, who had been attainted and executed as a Jacobitism, Jacobite in 1747. Early life Born on 17 June 1802, he was the son of Amelia (née Clan Leslie, Leslie) Fraser and Alexander Fraser of Strichen, 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 Menzies of Culdares, James Menzies of Culdares). His maternal grandparents were John Leslie, 22nd Baron of Balquhain Castle, Balquhain and the former Violet Dalzell. In 1821, Fraser commissioned Aberdeen architect John Smith (architect), John Smith to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strichen Railway Station
Strichen railway station was a railway station in Strichen, Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Aberdeenshire (historic), Aberdeenshire, which had substantial .... History The station was opened on 24 April 1865 by the Formartine and Buchan Railway. 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 Strichen {{Aberdeenshire-railstation-st ... [...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 British 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 Moon was born in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, in 1886, to 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 Britain for Alberta in Canada, where Moon gave birth to her first child, William Hebditch (1908–1990). In 1913 she left Hebditch and had a relationship with Walter Moon, with whom she had a child, Mary Leonore Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Salmond
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond ( ; 31 December 1954 – 12 October 2024) was a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. A prominent figure in the Scottish nationalist movement, he was Leader of the Scottish National Party (Scottish National Party, SNP) on two occasions, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He then served as leader of the Alba Party from 2021 until his death in 2024. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he worked as an economist in the Scottish Office, and later, the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 United Kingdom general election, 1987, serving as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency), Banff and Buchan from 1987 to 2010. In 1990, he successfully defeated Margaret Ewing in the 1990 Scottish National Party leadership election, SNP leadership contest. Salmond led the party through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormond Hill
Mormond Hill (from Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic ''Mórmhonadh'', "big hill") is a broad eminence in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, not far from Fraserburgh. Its twin summits reach heights of and ; the higher of the two is known as Waughton Hill. The hill is surrounded by the low-lying arable region known as Buchan. At its foot are the villages of Strichen and New Leeds. The hill is mentioned in the folk song "Mormond Braes", about a girl from "Strichen toon" who resolves to make a better match after her lover jilts her. It is also mentioned in the song "Farewell to Tarwathie" by Judy Collins, originally written by George Scroggie. History St Eddren's Slack, on the eastern side of the hill, is said to have been the hermitage of Ethernan, an obscure saint who founded the church of Rathen, Aberdeenshire, Rathen. Before the parish of Strichen was created in the 17th century, the people of the district were obliged to travel north across the hill in order to attend services in Rathen Kirk. The ... [...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 British 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 Moon was born in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, in 1886, to 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 Britain for Alberta in Canada, where Moon gave birth to her first child, William Hebditch (1908–1990). In 1913 she left Hebditch and had a relationship with Walter Moon, with whom she had a child, Mary Leonore Moon ... [...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] |
Robert Cruickshank (bacteriologist)
Robert Cruickshank (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 bacteriologist for Glasgow R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Nilsen
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and Necrophilia, necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. 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 HM Prison Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. 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 perform a ritual in which he bathed and dressed the victim's body, which he retained for extended periods of time, before dissection, dissecting and disp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Pitsligo
New Pitsligo (), also known as Cavoch (locally ''Cyaak''), . is a village in , Scotland, near . Overview A small village in the North East of Scotland, it lies about inland from and around south-west of |
William Cruden (provost)
William Cruden (1726–1807) was a Scottish merchant who twice served as Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Life He was born in the parish of Strichen in northern Aberdeenshire the son of a William Cruden (b.1703) a farmer, and his wife, Anna Phaans (1700-1780). His brothers included David Cruden of Nigg, and George Cruden, who went to Aberdeen with William as a merchant. Around 1745 he moved to Aberdeen and gained a reputation as a cloth merchant. He became a city burgess and was appointed Chief Magistrate of Aberdeen. He was first elected Lord Provost of Aberdeen in 1784 in place of William Young, serving the standard two years in this role.The Aberdeen Almanack 1786 In 1789 he was elected for the second time, serving until 1791. He died on 23 December 1807 and is buried in the churchyard of the Kirk of St Nicholas in central Aberdeen Aberdeen ( ; ; ) is a port city in North East Scotland, and is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, third most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
