Culter Shops
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 21:26
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"Culter Shops" by Allan Pennie
As years go by times and places around us change
Like our lives through the years we rearrange
But in memory we remember what was once a community People, shops, services for the good folks that no longer be.
Local Place Names
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:07
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As you explore Culter, set between the seventh and eighth milestones west of Aberdeen, you will note many of the road names have local connections.
The 8th milestone; the War Memorial; The Beeches along "Lovers Walk"
Gordon Arms Hotel
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:05
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1899- 2002
Work completed on the redevelopment of the Gordon Arms Hotel in the centre of Peterculter in 2002. The hotel which had been a focus of village social life for just over a hundred years has been demolished and rebuilt, using the same facade, as apartments. Trees and the rhododendron bushes which fronted the hotel have fallen victim to the bulldozers. The stonework was numbered and dismantled to be re-used in the new frontage. |
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Left: Gordon Arms Hotel during construction in 1899...and in 2002 as the same structure is brought back down to earth. more |
The contrasting faces of the Gordon Arms Hotel- opened in 1899 and closed in 2002. While we wait to see the area converted to flats- we can only remember through photographs of the GA, the long association with Culter.
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Above: Photos from the 1910's and 1930's
Left: Early 70's |
Dalmaik
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:03
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The estate in Peterculter of Dalmaik takes it's name from the old church at Drumoak. To find this old building follow the signpost off the A93 to "Drumoak Kitchens". Follow this road southward towards the river and you will see a sign to "Drumoak Manse B&B".
This church site and burial ground has stood since around 1062. It is mentioned in a Papal Bull of 1157 as the church at "Dulmayok". The Rev John Glennie was minister here in the 1750's- 1760's before he took up a charge at Maryculter. The church fell out of use with the building of a new church in 1836. |
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The turning point for the Old Church was the building of the "new" turnpike road in 1798. The church, by the River Dee, which had served the community for so many centuries was now, simply, too inconvenient. A new church was needed nearer the centre of the parish and the present church of Drumoak was built a mile and a half north-west of the old church. As you drive out from Aberdeen, and pass through Drumoak, the building is on the right up on the hill. The new church opened for worship on 13 November 1836. The architect for the new building was the noted Aberdeen architect, Archibald Simpson. |
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Craigton Farm
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:00
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The farm lands of Craigton were extensive, measuring 90 acres, and lay between Bucklerburn and Culter House. The north boundary being Culter House Woods -and the south the railway line. The farm was there 300 years ago or longer, and today every corner of it is filled with houses. We now have the developments of Craigton, Hillview, Hillside, Dalmaik, Lochnagar, Crown Terrace, Pace and Crescent, Towerview and parts of Coronation Road and St Ronan's.