Old Photographs Cruden Bay Aberdeenshire Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Cruden Bay a small village on the north coast of the Bay of Cruden in Aberdeenshire. Cruden Bay was originally known as Invercruden. The village was renamed in 1924. Port Erroll is the older part of the village of Cruden Bay to the north of the present golf course. In 1899, the Great North of Scotland Railway Company laid out the Cruden Bay golf course, designed by Old Tom Morris, with assistance from Archie Simpson, and extended playing privileges to local residents who were called the Port Erroll Golf Club. The Cruden Bay Hotel was built at the same time and the hotel was connected to the railway station by an electric tramway. The hotel was demolished in 1947, having spent the war years requisitioned by the army. Cruden Bay is said to have been the site of a battle in which the Scots under King Malcolm II defeated the Danes in 1012. Traditionally, the name was derived from the Gaelic Croch Dain, meaning Slaughter of Danes. Bram Stoker holidayed first at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel and then at nearby Whinnyfold in Cruden Bay from 1894. Stoker’s novel The Mystery of the Sea and some short stories have Cruden Bay as their setting. James Macpherson's poem The Highlander in 1758 takes the battle of Cruden as its model.