IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Gordon Close, PETERHEAD, AB42 3AH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Gordon Close, AB42 3AH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (22 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Boddam parish kirk
Dated 1865 with minimalist bellcote but more like Aberdeenshire 'Georgian Gothic' kirks from 60 years earlier such as Echt kirk (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4758650 ) or Kirkton of Skene kirk (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5239085 ). C-listed (LB16314): http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB16314 . Update (August 2020): the church is now converted to residential use.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 19 May 2018
0.10 miles
2
Boddam United Free Church
Built 1881 and originally the free kirk. The UFC was formed in 1900 when the United Presbyterian Church and most of the 1843 Free Church merged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Free_Church_of_Scotland . Most UFC congregations rejoined the Church of Scotland in 1929.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 19 May 2018
0.11 miles
3
Former Methodist chapel, Gordon Street, Boddam
Boarded up and derelict... Farther down the hill is a wing of the primary school.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 19 May 2018
0.11 miles
4
Site of Boddam Station
View southward, towards Ellon; ex-GNS terminus of branch from Ellon, closed long ago (passengers 31/10/32, goods 7/11/45), hence nothing to be seen!
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 2 Oct 1961
0.13 miles
5
View of Boddam from Stirling Hill
The uniform grey buildings in the centre are associated with the former RAF Buchan
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Buchan ) radar station, which closed in 2004. Behind them is the former Boddam parish kirk, now in residential use. In the far distance to the left is part of the Port of Peterhead. The A90 road passes in the foreground.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 10 Jun 2022
0.15 miles
6
Russell Street in Boddam
A photograph of Russel Street in Boddam, taken at approximately the same spot as one from around 1930, shows how little things have changed in 80 years.
Image: © Iain Smith
Taken: 8 Jun 2009
0.16 miles
7
Boddam village centre
Parts of Queen's Road to the left and right with Russell Street bisecting the angle between them and typical 19th Century fishermen's cottages made of brown granite from the adjacent Stirling Hill quarries lining them: 22 Queen's Road to the right of the photo is C-listed (LB16312): http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB16312 .
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 19 May 2018
0.18 miles
8
Looking down New Street, Boddam
Fishermen's cottages made of brown granite from nearby Stirling Hill and beyond them, the sea...
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 19 May 2018
0.19 miles
9
Rocksley Inn, Stirling Village by Boddam
Once a pretty basic village pub on the main Peterhead Aberdeen road, it has since been renovated.
Image: © Ken Fitlike
Taken: 7 May 2004
0.19 miles
10
Stirling Village at Night
The junction between Boddam's Station Road and the A90 as it runs through Stirling Village.
Image: © Iain Smith
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.19 miles
