Erected by Public Subscription
To the Memory of
Benjamin Maclean, M.A., Divinity Student
Who Lost His Life on 26th August 1909, in
A Successful Effort to Rescue a Bather from
Drowning, off the East Beach, Burghead
“Greater Love . . . — — Map (db m128158) HM
Erected by the Inhabitants
Of Burghhead to the Memory
Of Their Fellow Townsmen
Whose Lives Were Sacrificed
In the Great War
1914 — 1919
That Both a Man Live For
To Serve His Fellows
To Honour His Country to Glorify God
And . . . — — Map (db m128157) WM
The Harvest Reaper was a 45 foot long, Fyfie design fishing boat built of larch on oak at Wilson (Cockie) Noble's yard in Fraserburgh in 1931. She was powered by a Kelvin Recardo diesel engjine. She fished from Frasertburgh (the other Broch!) . . . — — Map (db m128159) HM
Five Centuries in Kinloss
The Abbey Buildings
By the end of the 13th Century the majority of buildings in the Abbey Precinct would have been complete. The church lay on an east-west alignment with the main cloister to the south. To the east of . . . — — Map (db m128053) HM
The Pictish Rodney’s Stone was carved around 1,200 years ago.
A beacon for the community, it may have marked a place where people came to be baptised, married or hear Mass.
Brodie born and bred … The family home to over #400 varieties of . . . — — Map (db m128035) HM
From Citeaux to Kinloss The Cistercian Family
Created in 1098 at Citeaux in France by twenty monks from the Abbey at Molesme, the Cistercian Order set out to adopt the exact observance of the Rule of St. Benedict. Changing their habits from the . . . — — Map (db m128050) HM
In Honoured Memory of
The Brave Men from Kinloss Parish
Who Fell in the Great War
1914 — 1919
Capt. C.G. Grant Peterkin, Scottish Horse. · Lieut. A.S. Middleton, R.A.F. · 2nd Lt. A. Masson, Seaforth Hrs. · Corpl. R.E. Bisset, Seaforth . . . — — Map (db m128037) WM
The Cistercians of Kinloss
Cistercian monastic observance followed the Rule of St Benedict, insisting on plain clothing, two simple meals a day, and an austerity in church furnishings 'in places far from the concourse of men'. They developed an . . . — — Map (db m128073) HM
Balvenie Castle was built in the 13th century as the mighty stronghold of one of Scotland's foremost barons, Alexander 'Black' Comyn, earl of Buchan (1244-89). It remained a noble residence for over four hundred years.
During that time, the . . . — — Map (db m128236) HM
The Clock In This Tower
Was by Public Subscription
Illuminated on
To Commemorate the Diamond Jubilee
Of Her Most Gracious Majesty
Queen Victoria
1837 — 1897
The Tower Clock Was Renovated in 1968
Following the Generous . . . — — Map (db m128260) HM
George Stephen
Lord Mount Stephen of Mount Stephen
British Columbia & Dufftown Banffshire
Banker and financier who in 1881 organized the Canadian Pacific Railway Company & became its first president. Instrumental in completing the . . . — — Map (db m128257) HM
6th Battn The Gordon Highlanders
Banffshire and Donside
To the Glory of God
and
In Memory of the Officers
Non Commissioned Officers and Men
Who Fell in the Great War
1914 — 1918
Also those who fell
In the Second Great War . . . — — Map (db m128234) WM
1914 — 1918
Sacred
To The Memory Of
The Men Of This Parish
Who Gave Their Lives
In The Great War
“Their Works Do
Follow Them”
( left alcove )
“Those we call the dead,
are breathers of an ampler
day . . . — — Map (db m128233) WM
To the Memory of the Men
Of the Parish of Mortlach
Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice
In the Great War 1914 — 1919
Pte Cauld J. Seaforths · Pte Cauld W. Gordons · Pte George A. Gordons · Pte Glennie A. (M.M.) Blk. Watch · Pte . . . — — Map (db m128261) WM
The Earl of Atholl’s Lodging
The Hall, about 1500.
The 4th earl of Atholl's new residence, built about 1550, was built on the palace plan, that is with a suite of rooms placed horizontally, as in the royal palaces of the Stewart kings at . . . — — Map (db m128238) HM
The Kitchen Complex
Cooking
Communal feasting was very much a way of life in a medieval castle. As many of the earl's rents were paid in kind, not cash, food was in good supply. This kitchen complex provided food for the Hall and Chamber over . . . — — Map (db m128237) HM
This Yew Tree was Planted on 13th August 2001
to Celebrate the 100th Birthday of
Janet Sheed Roberts
Granddaughter of William Grant — — Map (db m128239) HM
James Square was laid out as an open space on land owned by Lt. Col. James Brander, Laird of Pitgaveny It was part of a large improvement plan in the 1830s - streets, houses and harbour - known as Branderburgh. This joined Seatown and Stotfield . . . — — Map (db m128161) HM
To the Memory of the Men of Lossiemouth
And the Landward Part of the Parish of Drainie Who Died in the
Service of their Country during the War 1914 — 1919 — Not in Vain
Seaforth Highlanders
Capt. Edwards G.E. D.S.O. · Capt. . . . — — Map (db m128162) WM
David West Raymond (1868 – 1936) is best known for his local Moray seascapes and landscapes in watercolour.
James Ramsay MacDonald was born in poverty in Lossiemouth in 1866. He became Britain’s first Socialist Prime Minister in 1924 and . . . — — Map (db m128160) HM
Recovered from the Moray
Firth between Covesea and
Tablet Ness on or about
The year 1882 by the fishing
Smack “Isabella & Janes” INS 2868
Wm. Reid (BO) Skipper
Lossiemouth — — Map (db m128075) HM