Sandford Lodge is a Category B
listed building
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in
Peterhead
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, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A former
farmhouse
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, described by
Charles McKean
Charles McKean FRSE FRSA FRHistS FRIBA (16 July 1946 – 29 September 2013) was a Scottish historian, author and scholar.
Biography
McKean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 16 July 1946. He was educated at Fettes College, the University of P ...
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.
[
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
The Gordon Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years, from 1881 until 1994, when it was amalgamated with The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form The Highlanders (Seaforth, Go ...
. 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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...
, 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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Description
Bus drivers must have a special license above and beyond a regular driver's licence. Bus drivers typically drive their vehicles between bus stat ...
. "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
Peterhead Power Station is a multi-unit station owned and operated by SSE plc, with a capacity of 2,177 MW (1,550 MW transmissible). It is located near Boddam and the A90, just south of Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotlan ...
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 Canmore may refer to:
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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