Stonehaven’s War Memorial is a particularly noticeable monument, standing on top of the Black Hill just south of the town. It is often thought of as being in a poor state of repair but this is the way it was designed to look – as unfinished or ruined as the lives of those it commemorates. […]
John Ellis, Architect (1874 – 1929) John Ellis designed Stonehaven’s most noticeable piece of architecture – the War Memorial. He was born on 10 June 1874 in Stonehaven to John and Barbara (Thomson) Ellis. John (senior) was a shoe maker. They lived, and he worked, at 79 Barclay Street. One of seven children John was […]
The work that is being done on the Carron river and Glasslaw burn progresses at it’s own pace. Sometimes there is a big change then it slows down a bit. It’s certainly worth a walk around to see what has changed. The problem can be that once it has changed you can find it difficult […]
From David Fleming – St James’ Episcopal Church is proud to announce the opening of its new, fascinating, permanent and interactive Exhibition, ‘Priests and Pipes’, representing over three centuries of intriguing church history. The highlight is a display of the Burns Bible dated about 1716 and bought for use in the original Episcopal Chapel in […]
Stonehaven’s War Memorial was built in 1922 and officially unveiled in 1923 to commemorate the men and women who lost their lives in the ‘Great War’ of 1914 -18. More names were added after the end of the Second World War -1938 – 45. It was designed by local architect John Ellis to look like […]
Robert W. Thomson (1822 – 1873) From A Goodly Heritage by Archibald Watt, published by Stonehaven Heritage Society, 1990, and used with the kind permission of the Tolbooth Museum Robert Thomson was the father of modern transport and a remarkable inventor, the inventor, in fact, of pneumatic tyres. He also had a world-wide reputation in […]
Sir, In recent times there have been some important and moving celebrations of events both from the first and second world wars. We are in the near future about to celebrate another fairly unique event. On 6th July 1919 an oak tree was planted by the then Provost of Stonehaven to commemorate the signing of […]
BRIAN Ewen, who contributes some excellent photographs and content to Stonehaven folk on Twitter, found this article about Jimmy Nicol, the farmer who donated the care home to the Church of Scotland, in their magazine Life and Work https://www.lifeandwork.org/features/looking-back-the-benefactor-of-boganlochy
AN INTRIGUING film donated recently to the Maggie Law Museum in Gourdon features a boat fishing from Stonehaven and a rather surprising customer waiting for the catch. The video, made in 2001, takes the viewer on a creel fishing trip aboard the Shamarnic, skippered by the late Alexander Malcolm who also narrated the film. The […]
A glimpse of a piece of pottery in the fading evening light two years ago led an archeologist to a find now recognised as evidence of early Neolithic settlement at Stonehaven. Robert Lenfert of Cameron Archaeology was working on land adjacent to Fetteresso Cemetery in advance of the housing development there. He told The Bellman […]