Basic Site Details Name: | Cluny Harbour | Town, district or village: | Buckie | City or county: | Banffshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | 1897 Works - Archive information - 'Tidal Waters' Buckie (Cluny) Harbour, plan and sections of proposed new harbour works, November 1897. By James Barron, engineer, Aberdeen. Parliamentary plan showing proposed extensions to East Breakwater and West Pier of Buckie Harbour. High and low water marks shown. Harbour office, railway station, lifeboat house and adjacent buildings noted. Coloured. Sheet 2 contains sections of proposed extensions. Ordnance Survey 1-inch (sheet 95) marked to show site of proposed works.
Proposed works comprised an Extension of the East Breakwater, in a westerly direction for a distance of 100 feet or thereabouts.; a New Jetty, commencing on the east side of the West Pier, in a south-easterly direction for a distance of 120 feet or thereabouts; “together with all necessary breakwaters, booms, shipping-places, landing-places, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, sheds, custom-houses, lighthouses, beacons, slipways, jetties, dolphins, floats, stages, staithes, drops, cranes, railways, sidings, tramways, and other works, machinery, and conveniences for the efficient working and use of the harbour.” [Edinburgh Gazette 16 November 1897 p1087]
1908- Extensions Estimated cost of 1908-13 extension: £95,000. Following the death of W T Douglass in 1913 the following were appointed: Frederick Palmer. CIE. MICE MA. M Soc CE Westminster, London, a partner of Sir Alexander Rendell; A W Lewis MICE 15 Victoria St. Westminster, London, chief assistant to Douglass.
| Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Harbour | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1897 | | Proposed | new jetty and extension to breakwater | | 1908 | After 1913 | Alterations and additions | Extension (completed by others after Douglass's death in 1913) | | 1910 | 1932 | Addition | |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Cluny Trustees | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | | | 'Old Snippets' on Buckie and District Fishing Heritage Centre website (http://www.buckieheritage.org/oldsnippets.htm) | | | entry for 25 September 1913 (accessed January 2010) | | Walker, David W and Woodworth, Matthew | 2015 | The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire North and Moray | | Yale University Press | p489 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Aberdeen Journal | 15 November 1913 | | | | | Builder | 15 August 1913 | | | p180 - obituary of W T Douglass | | Edinburgh Gazette | 16 November 1897 | | | p1087
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Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | | Banff Sheriff Court Archives | | bound plans, book of reference and Gazette notice | | Courtesy of Neil Darlington | Information sent via DSA website | | Sent December 2009. | | National Archives of Scotland | Public Records of Scotland | RHP2996 | Plans of proposed new harbour Works, Buckie (Cluny) Harbour, 1897. | | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Register House Plans | | RHP 46205 |
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