Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Portgordon Moray

Tour Scotland wee travel video Blog of old photographs of Portgordon, or sometimes Port Gordon, Scottish Gaelic: Port Ghòrdain, a village in Moray, south west of Buckie, Scotland. Portgordon was established in 1797 by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon as a fishing village. In 1797 houses were built for ten fishermen and their families from Nether Buckie. This was the third new village the Duke had established, but unlike Fochabers and Tomintoul before, this was a smaller venture and little planning was done with regards to street layout. The intermediate railway station was opened, first as Port Gordon Station, on 1 May 1886. It was renamed Portgordon Station by the London and North Eastern Raliway before 1938 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968. A boat building industry began, with local yards first constructing Zulu’s and from 1903 steam drifters. In 1907 one yard employed fifty men and launched a drifter every month or so but this business in drifters had dried up by 1915, though the yard continued to produce salmon cobles. During World War II in 1940, two German spies, Karl Drucke and Vera Erikson were captured at the railway station and held at the police station A memorial to those who had lost their lives during World War I was unveiled on 9 June 1921. It is a fifteen foot Celtic cross of granite, situated in East High Street. It records the names of 28 killed during World War I and a further 28 from World War II.

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