Old Photograph Clock Tower Fife Street Dufftown Scotland

Old photograph of the Clock Tower on Fife Street in Dufftown in Moray, Scotland. The Tower was originally the town jail, later the Burgh Chambers and now houses the VisitScotland Tourist Information Centre. The clock is known locally as " The clock that hanged MacPherson ". MacPherson of Kingussie was an infamous freebooter condemned to death at Banff in 1700 for robbing the rich and giving it to the poor. The local inhabitants raised a petition for his reprieve but when the pardon was on it's way, MacPherson's arch enemy, Lord Braco, the Sheriff of Banff, put the clock forward a quarter of an hour to make sure MacPherson would hang. Sometime later the clock was removed from Banff and installed in Dufftown's tower.




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