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Arnage Home Farm sign |
A fairly recent addition to the regions collection of cut metal signs showing the current favourite iconography of a man with a pair of horse and a plough. Behind is an older primitive painted board sign now almost illegible. |
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Fraserburgh Old Parish Church, fish weather vane |
The slightly stumpy stone built spire of the church is adorned by a simple metal fish weather vane. See external link to church website for pictures of the whole building. |
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Tank trap with world war II graffiti |
A square concrete block of the kind that once covered much of the coasts of Britain and Europe, with carved graffiti. Blocks of concrete such as this still stretch all the way from Aberdeen to the mouth of the River Ythan at Newburgh. There are also extant examples on more northerly Aberdeenshire beaches that could have been used for landing. Built in 1940 they were designed to prevent tanks landing during the feared Nazi invasion. Some have simple graffiti on them but this one was richly decorated by Louis Lawson. There is a caricature of Churchill who is watching Hitler looking upwards at a bomb falling from the sky. At the bottom there is the chilling message "Hitler's Graveyard".
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Tigger, trawler decoration |
Another cartoon character used as a trawler decoration. The 2007 photo on www.trawlerphotos.co.uk is interesting in showing just how much damage to a paint job less than a year at sea can do. |
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features at Tolquhon castle |
Apart from the original Preston tower this is not a building with serious defensive intent, more a stylish country palace. As with the tomb for the same client and the other castles he was involved in the design of, Leper has combined what was then modern style with older traditions to create a fusion that is peculiarly Scottish. He has an approach that resonates with C. R. Mackintosh in a much later era. |
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Prop of Ythsie |
A bit of an ugly and intimidating monument to the hereditary principle and the divine right of the aristocracy/rich to rule the rest of us for their own advantage, however it is worth the climb up both the hill and the stairs for the view toward Bennachie.
Erected to the memory of the Prime Minister the Fourth Earl of Aberdeen.
A square tower of coursed red granite with dressed quoins and a corbelled and crenellated parapet.
The lower stage is steeply battered.
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