Old Photographs Whitehills Harbour Scotland

Old photograph of Whitehills Harbour on the Moray Firth on the North East coast of Scotland. Whitehills is a Trust Harbour, established by Act of Parliament in 1895. Whitehills was a very successful fishing port up until 1999, when due to changes in the fishing industry, the Commissioners decided to develop it as a Marina. Between 1924 and 1969 Whitehills had an RNLI lifeboat station. The station was transferred from Banff and in 1932 a new boathouse and slipway (which still stand today) were constructed for a new motor lifeboat. Whitehills received a new 47ft Watson-class boat in 1961, but this was withdrawn and the station closed in 1969 after launching only eleven times in eight years.

Old photograph of Whitehills Harbour on the Moray Firth on the North East coast of Scotland.

Old photograph of Whitehills Harbour on the Moray Firth on the North East coast of Scotland.

Old photograph of Whitehills on the Moray Firth on the North East coast of Scotland.

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Old Photograph Fishing Boat Buckie Scotland

Old photograph of a fishing boat leaving the harbour in Buckie, Moray Firth, Scotland. The origin of the name of the town has caused some debate and although the folk etymology is that Buckie is named after a seashell the reality is that the shared marine background is merely a coincidence. The name Buckie would originally have occurred in identifying a place that was not immediately adjacent to the sea so we must seek alternative etymological sources. Unfortunately in one of the earlier books on Scottish place names Buckie on the Moray Firth does not receive a mention although Buckie, spelt the same way, in the Balquhidder district of Perthshire is described as being derived from the Gaelic word boc or Welsh bowk, both meaning a buck or male deer so this would suggest the meaning of Buckie as place where male deer gather and this specifically would most likely have been the valley of what is known today as the Buckie Burn.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Chanonry Point

Tour Scotland photograph of Bottlenose Dolphins near Chanonry Point, Moray Firth, Scotland. Chanonry Point lies at the end of Chanonry Ness, a spit of land extending into the Moray Firth between Fortrose and Rosemarkie on the Black Isle, Scotland.



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