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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Aberdeenshire => Topic started by: leanora on Friday 26 August 11 21:41 BST (UK)
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I posted many moons ago that i had a disk with the who history of the building of the break water in Peterhead. but due to moving house I had miss placed it.
well today i found the it and there are many pictures of the men that were involved in the building of it and some are named . there are group and individual pictures .
but I not sure i can post it all if i make a mess of this please can one of the moderater help me thanks
i have posted a few of the photos but there so many more and looks like i can only post a few at a time.
my grandfather Tom Kelly and his son Thomas Kelly both worked on the build.
I got these picture when I diver working on the new refinerys where I live in south Wales was renting a room from me. I told him my uncle and grandfather had also been divers and were from Peterhead. he got out his lap top and then began to show me the pictures he had relating to Peterhead breakwater. I then spotted my grandfathers name and later my father was able to pick out my uncle (my mother's brother). The diver who gave me the pictures had got them from a son of one of the divers who also worked on it.
I have pictures of the orininal plans the scale models that were made and much much more but for some reasone i can't post any more pictures ??
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I have also pictures of the plans and the scale models and much much more but i can post any more right now not sure why ?
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Hi Leanora,
I'm Vice Chairman of the Family History Society of Buchan (www.buchanroots.co.uk ) and I recognise most of the divers and support staff on the photos. I would like your permission to download the photos and put them in our archive. We could even do an article in our quarterly newsletter giving more coverage to the men and the project,
KRs
Frugal
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hi i am not at home right now so can you wait untill i get back from a badly needed break?
i have many many more pictures these were just a few. i took a look at your site and notices some fees for thing ?
you may be able to get a copy from the divers you know if you cant wait to see all i have? but theres so many it will take weeks to post a few a day here. my grandfather passed away many years ago but his som aged 84 tommy kelly passed away last year. i would love to know if any of the other divers are alive and remembered my uncle or grandfather
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Hi Leanora,
Thanks for the speedy reply. I'm just going off on holiday myself so there is no rush to get back to me. I'm afraid that all the divers I knew have all passed on, although the daughter of one of them lives only 50 yards from me. Our society is a registered charity and I don't know which fees you are referring to on our web site, but we charge an annual subscription of £10-00 and charge for publications by the society and other societies on whose behalf we sell family history related items. On a number of our own publications we give half of our profit to charities. On my own book, "Peterhead's Palaces for the People" the money goes to The Scottish Cot Death Trust. The only other fees we charge are for research done by our volunteer helpers for anyone requesting it and reclaiming of any expense incurred.
I look forward very much to seeing your other photos. If it is easier for you to send me a disc I'll be happy to pay for that privilege.
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send me a private message when you get back, i should be home about the 19th it may be easyer if i was to post you a copy of all i have on disk? there are sooooooooooo mamy pictures. there are ones of the plans scale models of thr new break water, groups of workers the ladders that the divers climbed down [ found out from my uncle thes were train tracks as they needed to be strong] i have also many group shots of the office worker. last stone to be layed . group photos of all the peple who worked on the project.
i will sign up on your site to thats if i dont returnhome broke haha
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Hi again Leanora,
I'll do as you suggest after I get back from holiday. We actually have a wooden block model of the breakwater which we are reconstructing at the moment so the plans would be very helpful indeed. We'll send you a photo of the finished article.
Enjoy your holiday,
KRs
Frugal
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Leanora,
I am the journalist from the Evening Express newspaper responsible for covering the Peterhead area, and I came across your pictures wiith interest.
If possible I would love to speak to you about the pictures and try and see if I can help in any way I can to see if you can find anyone who remembers your uncle or grandfather.
I can be contacted via email (*), if you send your contact details to that address I can phone you if you want.
Kind regards
Mark
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Hello Leanora,
Can you tell me when the Peterhead breakwater was built?
Marg.
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hi will look when i return from holiday to see if theres any dates on the pictures
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Hello Leonora,
One of my friends at the Peterhead Family History showed me your messages today and I think I'm right in thinking it's Tommy Kelly who lived with his parents at the Prison Quarters in the 1940's when I was small or should I say young, Tommy helped me with the first codling I caught from the said breakwater, my husband is one of the men rebuilding the model and will be very pleased to see the disc when it arrives I have taken some photo's of the work in progress, but like you I'm not sure how to work this site properly.
Tommy had a sister Martha and Patsy if I remember properly, he was also friendly with Bob Law dec. and Alfie Hepburn who I think still lives in Aberdeen.
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Hello Leonora,
One of my friends at the Peterhead Family History showed me your messages today and I think I'm right in thinking it's Tommy Kelly who lived with his parents at the Prison Quarters in the 1940's when I was small or should I say young, Tommy helped me with the first codling I caught from the said breakwater, my husband is one of the men rebuilding the model and will be very pleased to see the disc when it arrives I have taken some photo's of the work in progress, but like you I'm not sure how to work this site properly.
Tommy had a sister Martha and Patsy if I remember properly, he was also friendly with Bob Law dec. and Alfie Hepburn who I think still lives in Aberdeen.
Wow! yes you have the right Tommy Kelly , and Martha was my mother. both were so close as sibblings in life but also in death mum died on the 10th of April and Tommy on the 12th my birthday on the 1th, it was a few years apart.
Jessie and Pat die several years before them, and Bobby Law was his great friend. for many years uncle Tommy drove from Southampton to Peterhead to see Bobby Law every year until Bobby died.
Uncle Tommy was a wonderful uncle and it so wonderful to read your post. I will try and copy the disk soon and post it off,but having lost my father resently I still finding it hard to motivate myself to do anything.
I have wonderful memorys of Peterhead although I was only about 5 when my Grand parents moved to live with us in Chester.
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Thanks for uploading the photo's I'm sure Sandy and John will appreciate them.
Did you notice on the workforce group Jacki Aiken who lived on the floor above your Gran he'd a daughter Adie and a son Jackie who worked at the Harbour of Refuge also. Jackie senior is two away from Colonol Littlejohn who is presenting a Long Service Medal to Jimmy Buchan I think it is ,you received it after 30 years service, my Dad got one on another occasion and I have a different photo of the workforce .
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hi there are other photo's of the office work force as well but ther are so many theres 2 i can only post a few each day. also with so many it hard trying to pick out the ones to post andnot double up on them
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Thanks Laura,
Had another go and managed to save and print it off, will be in touch later.
Kathleen
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Thanks for the additional photo's the ones this morning were very helpful Sandy says thank you
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ok lets see what else i can find
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Leanora,
I am the journalist from the Evening Express newspaper responsible for covering the Peterhead area, and I came across your pictures wiith interest.
If possible I would love to speak to you about the pictures and try and see if I can help in any way I can to see if you can find anyone who remembers your uncle or grandfather.
Kind regards
Mark
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sorry deleted post as i though i was sending a private message
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Leanora,
I am the journalist from the Evening Express newspaper responsible for covering the Peterhead area, and I came across your pictures with interest.
If possible I would love to speak to you about the pictures and try and see if I can help in any way I can to see if you can find anyone who remembers your uncle or grandfather.
I can be contacted via email (*), if you send your contact details to that
address I can phone you if you want.
sorry Mark i only just saw your post and have sent you a private message. i have not been my self as my father died recently.
Kind regards
Mark
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Hi again Leanora,
I'll do as you suggest after I get back from holiday. We actually have a wooden block model of the breakwater which we are reconstructing at the moment so the plans would be very helpful indeed. We'll send you a photo of the finished article.
Enjoy your holiday,
KRs
Frugal
still waiting my photo and i know its finished lol
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Hello Leonora,
I see our Vice Chair at the Family History of Buchan has been in touch, I don't think he knows you have already supplied the photo's etc. I've had trouble with my computer so couldn't remember if I'd sent you the photo's of the completed model. Will attend to it.
I down loaded the wedding photo of the Peterhead family, so far haven't found anyone to identify the family, maybe some day somebody will come into the office who can help, I'll keep trying for you. The quality of the photo makes a big difference, and it doesn't blow up very clearly.
I believe you are now on Facebook if you post it on Peterhead when I was a child, somebody will maybe pick it up for you. Do you have any photo's of Patsy at the Regal?
Kathleen
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leonora. My name is John Milne, and my father James Milne from Peterhead told me that one of my ancestors was a Diver on the Breakwater. I found your photos by accident this morning, and became interested to see two of the Divers were Milnes. My Grandfather was also James Milne, and he was actually brought up in Glasgow, but was working in Peterhead prior to the war. He was an Engineer, Machine Operator. He Married Margaret Winter Summers, and they stayed in North Street. My Mother is Janet McLean Buchan, and her father Donald M (Danny) Buchan came from Hope Street. My parents are both 80 now, but we have not lived in the Town since 1967, as we moved to the west Coast then to Ayr. I currently live in Brazil, so dont get back home very often.
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Hi John
I sent you a private message about the pictures and where you can find more
kind regards
Leanora
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My great grandfather and great great uncle are among these photos , Harry and Jim Samuel
Ryan
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By any chance did you come across any photographs of Robert Henderson Low, a stonemason and supposedly a supervisor during construction. Many thanks for the most interesting topic.
K.