25 YEARS AGO - FRIDAY APRIL 19, 1985
STONEHAVEN beach, described by local district councillors as being in a deplorable condition, is to be given a pre-holiday season clean up- and no ceiling has been put on the cost involved.
The council's environmental/recreation committee gave the go-ahead to the hire of outside contractors' machinery and use of the authority's direct labour force to make the beach more presentable, and for future regular tidying up of the area.
Commenting that, "It is not the beach it was 10 years ago, or even two years ago," Councillor Harrisson McLean said that people were beginning to dump rubbish in the area, and Councillor Jack Emslie added the area was becoming "a tip".
50 YEARS AGO - Friday April 22 1960
SEVENTY -two year old Gustave de Jonckheere, Stonehaven, walked to Montrose and back, a distance of 44 miles, the longest stint he has undertaken since he took up walking in earnest two years ago. He is keen to try the John o' Groats to Land's End trip, and the experiment was to determine if he could stand up to a whole day's walk.
He began at 4am after slipping quietly out of bed and leaving a note for his wife to say that he was off to Montrose and would see her in the evening. Taking his first rest at Inverbervie, he reached Montrose about 10.30am and then it was a case of "about turn" and back to St Cyrus for lunch.
Stopping only to eat or slake his thirst, he reached Stonehaven at 7.30pm a "wee bit tired" but bothered mainly by blisters. Neither blisters nor anything else, however, prevented him going out again in the late evening – to see if he could get a game of snooker!
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TWENTY Danish drama enthusiasts are to visit Stonehaven in June, and the members of the local amateur drama clubs are now getting on to the business of preparing a welcome.
The effort will be a joint one, and nothing will be spared to ensure the Danish visitors have as royal a time as was accorded to the team from Kincardine District SCDA which visited Denmark last year and performed Mr Bolfry in Copenhagen.
To give the campaign a send-off, a Kaffe Aften, the Danish equivalent of a morning coffee, will be held in the Town Hall. To ensure its success, it will have as strong a Danish flavour as possible, and Mr Ian B Robertson, of the Ury Players, has secured from the Danish Embassy in London the promise of posters and other material to give an indication of life in Denmark.
100 YEARS AGO - Thursday April 21 1910
AMONG the many curious nesting places with which robins are credited has to be added that of a busy joiners shop with all its hammering and din.
The shop referred to is that of Mr William Thompson & Sons, carpenters and joiners, Bridgefield, where some time ago a robin paid a visit by means of an open pane.
Out and in the bird came, perching herself on a card board box on the wall, quite close to some of the machinery, and within easy reach of the workmen. Soon the robin was joined by a companion, and they set about building a nest in the cardboard box, in which at present are five eggs.
Both birds seem very tame, having no fear apparently of the many men around them nor of the machinery that goes on all day, the men on their part taking a great interest in their unusual boarders.
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