SIX Stonehaven personalities were interviewed by Brian Johnston on Wednesday for a "Down Your Way" programme to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 UK at 5.05pm on Sunday, May 29 – with a repreat of the recording next day at 11.03am.
The locals who will be heard are Mr Hamish McDonald of R.G.I.T's offshore rescue training centre; District Councillor Jack Emslie (who will describe the fireballs ritual etc.); Mr Ken Forster, officer in charge of Stonehaven's Maritime radio station;
retired farmer Mr Jimmy Murdoch (a Dunnottar quoiting club member); Mr Fred Stephen, chairman of the R.W Thomson Memorial Fellowship); and Grampian regional councillor Ian B Robertson, who will speak generally about the town and its people.
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Majority feeling at Tuesday's meeting of Stonehaven and District community council, was that the proposed leisure centre for the town should be built at Queen Elizabeth Park, near the outdoor pool, rather than on the Allardice Street cinema site.
50 YEARS AGO
Friday, May 16, 1958
FOR the second successive weekend, Stonehaven was the centre of unusual goings-on.
On this occasion the excitement was caused when the three German roller-skating girls, who had been missing from London since May 1, and for whom a nation-wide search had been made, turned up in the town.
The three, Ruth Kruger (16) of Bonn; Ellen Bart (16) of Berlin; and Gisela Schmidt (17) Hamburg; disappeared from their London boarding home just a few hours before they were due to appear at the Palladium theatre with the troupe run by Herzog Orlando, and called "The Skating Orlando's".
Nine days later they were recognised on the Aberdeen-Stonehaven road by police constable James Gordon, Stonehaven, who was returning from Aberdeen in the early hours of Saturday. They were on their way southwards.
Accommodation was obtained for them in a local hospital and word of their discovery was sent to the German embassy in London and to Mr Orlando.
100 YEARS AGO
AT the Stonehaven Town Council meeting, Councillor Ross moved a motion that they approach Mr Andrew Carnegie for a donation towards providing public baths for the town.
Mr Ross went on to show the advantage to Stonehaven from a summer visitor's point of view in having such baths, which would be a source of considerable revenue to the common good.
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