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Harbour Cafe, Fraserburgh A cafe in a portakabin on the quayside decorated with seascapes and a harbour view, featuring fishing boats and the lifeboat. The retro signwriting style is particularly interesting. Harbour/Tolbooth Sundial Dated 1710. Free standing sundial. Cubic sandstone head with chamfered angles; horizontal dial with wrought-iron gnomon. Short, square-section shaft, also with chamfered angles, off-set below Harvieston farm Sign A farm sign in painted wrought and sheet steel. With the name Harvieston in cut steel letters, the whole surmounted by a repoussé corn sheaf. The iconography suggests that the farm name is being interpreted as 'harvest town' understandable if linguistically unlikely. In the north east of Scotland the word town or toon is still commonly used in its older sense of a farm steading as well as in the modern sense of a conurbation. Headiton Farm sign A modern steel sign this one avoids the nostalgic whimsy of some recent signs, in the old local tradition with naive cut-outs of a white-faced stirk and a tractor, it simply illustrates the farm's most important stock and equipment. Helicopter Wind Vane Painted metal weather vane in the form of a black and white helicopter. Heraldic Panel, Drum Carved stone panel on the exterior of the castle with the arms of the Irvines of Drum Family The crest is a banded sheaf of nine holly leaves. The motto is "Sub sole sub umbra virens" Increasing both in sunshine and in shade Hercules Linton Memorial, Inverbervie A full scale carved timber replica of the figurehead from the renowned tea clipper "the Cutty Sark" carved from Linton's original drawings 3 metres tall. with a black granite plaque engraved with the image of the ship. The figurehead depicts the young witch in Robert Burns' poem "Tam O Shanter" grasping the tail of Tam's mare, her right breast bared. In the Scot's language 'cutty sark' means a short shirt or shift, it is interesting that despite that fact and the otherwise erotic nature of the figure, the carving is actually wearing quite a long shift, perhaps the Victorian era was much more at ease with tits than with bums. Hotel Sign - Royal Hotel, Allardice Street decorative metalwork parapet with 'ROYAL HOTEL' lettering, House Sign - Smithy Cottages A painted plastic house sign of the 'guess who lives here sort', a more modern take on the local cut steel tradition, with a nicely foreshortened grand piano House sign - Threelums Carved oak panel showing the three lums (Scots for chimneys) with the lettered word threelums like smoke above them House sign and Post box - Gardner's Cottage Masonry wood metal and slate house sign in the form of a miniature house with a block work postbox incorporating what looks like a copper fire-hood to protect the brass letterbox. House with Decorative Datestone and Angle Mural sundial Category A listed building. Interesting and unusual survival of an early town house, the angle turret is a very rare feature, this distinguished dwelling also has a polygonal stair to the rear. The corbel stone bears the date 1675 and is decorated with two leaves. The building also incorporates an angle mural sundial. The building was restored by Banff Preservation Society circa 1970 and is now privately owned. Huntly fountain A fountain in various granites that looks as though it was designed to show of stone masons virtuosity. It is adorned with gilded Biblical texts relating to water. Huntly war memorial It is of a classical, elongated style in granite, octagon in plan with square piers and entablature panel screens between which are open at the top. It is surmounted by a four-sided tapering obelisk. There is a one-step base with a small flight of three steps leading up to it. It was unveiled 24 September 1922.
