NEW Additions August - Gracious thanks to Allan Fraser for his latest contributions Poems & Authors and Local Football.

For those of you who would like to find out the poems and authors of poems published in Banffshire Advertiser - go the the Snippets page and you will find Poems & Authors - a click on this should reveal a PDF with all the names of the poems and their authors along with the date and page number of the edition of the BA the poem appears.

Those who have local football as their interest then look no further - Allan Fraser has compiled 433 pages of news about local matches over the years that have appeared in the Banffshire Advertiser.

September 2008

Currently working on a data base of fishing boats from as far back as we can get.  It will take some time but should prove a useful resource once completed.

Third Party requests for information

As most of you will know, the Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre is a registered charity in Scotland, in other words we have no means of raising finance apart from our own efforts.  When we are seeking funding from various sources we are asked various questions to prove that we are providing a service (usually for free) to other people. 

Forum - joining instructions

We have a forum on the web site where people can ask questions which will be answered if we have the answer in our resources to do so.  It is easy to join - just go to www.buckieheritage.org and then go to forum - you will be asked to register which is also easy, give yourself a user name and then a password and provide your email address, your details will be sent immediately to the website - you will then receive an activation email from the website confirming your registration and from then you  can  post messages on the forum and private messages to others who have joined the forum. 

We would ask that you do not ask questions on behalf of 'others' and ask the 'others' to join and ask the questions themselves - that way we shall be able to measure how many people are asking questions and where geographically they are asking the questions from!  That would help us enormously and we ask for your cooperation in assisting us with this request.

We wish them a speedy recovery

Jeannie B Cowie  Has now been moved to Seafield and her recovery continues.  She has settled in fine and a steady stream of visitors have kept her up to date with the happenings.  Or is that the other way round?

Peter Flett  - Made a surprise and very welcome brief visit to the Heritage Centre on Friday afternoon, looking a bit more like his old self, he was under strict instructions from his lady wife Isbel not to get involved and start  ' newsing'.  He is due to get his operation at the end of October - we wish him well.

Johnny Hughes A - His wife Margaret remains in Seafield hospital - Her recuperation will take some time.

Volunteers . We are continually seeking volunteers to man the centre during the season.  We only ask that you do one stint per week of three hours.  You can largely select which day of the week you wish to attend and we shall try to do this where possible.  It is a very worthwhile three hours, you meet all sorts of folk who visit the place from all over the world.  Most importantly you are providing support for the Heritage of the past to be preserved for the future.  If you pop in to the centre at any time and speak to the staff on duty they will give you a rundown on the place.  Ex fishermen  and ladies are particularly welcome.