25 YEARS AGO - FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 1984
AT precisely noon on Monday, Mr Michael Ancram, Scottish Office Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment, cut a ribbon stretched across the south-bound half of the new dual carriageway, to formally and officially open the long-awaited and long-needed Stonehaven by-pass.
The ceremony was the culmination of a project first spoken about almost 60 years ago- and an occasion which many locals regard with mixed feelings, inasmuch as it is unknown what, if any, effects there might be on the town's economy, and it's survival as a holiday resort.
Time will, of course, tell- Mr Ancram comments that he is on the optimists' side, suggesting that other by-passed communities have not only NOT suffered unduly, but have in fact, benefited.
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FETTERCAIRN Farmers' Club held their annual best four acres of swedes competition last Thursday. The judge, Mr A M Jacobsen, considered 19 entries.
The record 16 tons 14 cwt 1 quarter and 1 lb won the Lundie Castle Cup for John Zimmerman, Muirton of Ballochy, Montrose.
The BBC TV "Landward" team were in attendance and excerpts from the competition are scheduled to be screened on the programme on Sunday December 9th.
50 YEARS AGO
Friday 20 November 1959
BOMB disposal experts are coming from England to investigate a hole found in open ground in the Stonehaven area. The location of the hole, which may have been made by an unexploded German bomb, is not being revealed until the experts have examined it.
Following the initial investigation Scottish command sought the help of the R.E Bomb disposal unit at Horsham, Surrey.
Two mortar bombs were recently found in the Stonehaven area, the second on Viscount Stonehaven's estate at Rickarton by a grouse shooting party.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Mackie Academy boys' team on their success in the Scottish "Top of the Form" competition. As Scottish champions, they are now eagerly awaiting details of their next opponents, and are determined to do their best to bring the national title north of the border again.
Their success is all the more praiseworthy in that it is their first essay in the competition and, although the Academy is situated in Stonehaven, the credit is shared by a considerable area of the county. Inverbervie and Glenbervie each have a representative in the four-boy team, and there is no doubt whatever that the whole school is behind them in their effort.
But interest and pride in their success goes far beyond the walls of the school. Parents and relatives of team members and present-day pupils are their most intimate "fans", but former pupils of the school, spread over the entire world, share in the jubilation and wish them well in their title quest.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday November 18 1909
ON Friday last Messrs Walker & Co., the well-known cinematograph entertainers, visited Stonehaven with their living pictures of Shackleton's South Pole expedition. The pictures were most realistic, and brought clearly before the mind of those present the hardships and privation of polar research.
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