Saltburn and Westwood Libraries

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Book Library

While building this site we have accumulated a lot of information that we felt was best gathered together in different books.  We hope you will enjoy reading them.

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Photograph Library

Over the years we have been very fortunate to have been given access to many historic photographs and permission to display them on the website.  We have now collated them into different albums.  We hope you enjoy viewing in them. 

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Saltburn » Saltburn Places

Saltburn Places

RCHS is grateful to Karen Graham for the photographs of, and information on, Saltburn of some years ago.
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Saltburn - photo 02 Saltburn west end.
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Saltburn WW1

Saltburn WW1

The photos in this album are from the Ross-shire Journal during the 1914-1918 War. Newspaper copies had been deposited with Dingwall Museum but over the years had become rather fragile and were in danger of disintegrating and so it was felt that this valuable record should not be lost.
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Ross John, L Corp, Saltburn
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Saltburn » Saltburn Places
Saltburn - photo 01
Saltburn - photo 01
Postcard dated 25 September 1903. Residents of visible houses: Simpson; unknown; Dean; Geordie Davidson (known as Geordie Doll); Watson.
Saltburn - photo 02 Saltburn west end.
Saltburn - photo 02 Saltburn west end.
Saltburn west end. Another postcard sent from "Rockfields", Saltburn, to Mabel Jamieson, London. Message reads: "Behold my village - it is easily a mile long. I hope you will all have a Happy Christmas Day."
Saltburn - photo 03 Saltburn West End. Date 1950s?
Saltburn - photo 03 Saltburn West End. Date 1950s?
Later scene, Saltburn West End. Date 1950s? Second house now no longer thatched and has upper storey.
Saltburn - photo 04 Saltburn - from West
Saltburn - photo 04 Saltburn - from West
Saltburn - from West. Lady with dog is Mrs Murray, in front of own house. Next house: Watson; and then the house of R H Bone.
Saltburn - photo 05 centre of village and East of shop
Saltburn - photo 05 centre of village and East of shop
Saltburn - centre of village and East of shop. First house belonged to Macleod (painter and decorator) and is beside bus stop.
Saltburn - photo 06 East end of Saltburn, looking west.
Saltburn - photo 06 East end of Saltburn, looking west.
Saltburn - photo 07 Bus outside "The Bungalow", Saltburn.
Saltburn - photo 07 Bus outside "The Bungalow", Saltburn.
Bus outside "The Bungalow", Saltburn. Just behind bus can be seen part of shop belonging to Tom Mackenzie where he conducted his business as a shoemaker from 1920 to 1937. Cottage opposite, on left of photo, is Elsie Cottage. Fannie McRitchie (Mrs Walker) lived here. She was a bus conductress.
Saltburn - photo 08 View from "The Bungalow", Saltburn
Saltburn - photo 08 View from "The Bungalow", Saltburn
View from "The Bungalow", Saltburn, with shop in view and looking west. Many houses had grass outside where now there is pavement.
Saltburn - photo 09 View of Saltburn East End from the Cromarty Firth
Saltburn - photo 09 View of Saltburn East End from the Cromarty Firth
View of Saltburn East End from the Cromarty Firth. Photograph taken from almost opposite "The Bungalow". Boat in photo belonged to Tom Mackenzie and was built by him. He used it to row out to his yacht The Mascot which was replaced by The Penguin.
Main Street in Saltburn (2001)
Main Street in Saltburn (2001)
Main Street in Saltburn (2001)
Main Street in Saltburn (2001)
Saltburn Boating Club, established 1920s.
Saltburn Boating Club, established 1920s.
Saltburn Boating Club
Saltburn Boating Club
Saltburn Boating Club. Winners of The Roderick Robertson Challenge Cup 1928. Tom Mackenzie is second left.
Postcard dated 24 August 1936 sent to Sybil Mackenzie.
Postcard dated 24 August 1936 sent to Sybil Mackenzie.
Postcard dated 24 August 1936 sent to Sybil Mackenzie. Middle boat - The Swallow from Saltburn with Herbie Weir and cox Jimmy Purdie. Outside boat - Ladybird from Saltburn with Tom Mackenzie and crew. Inside boat - from Cromarty.
In preparation for Regatta
In preparation for Regatta
In preparation for Regatta, Swallow practice timings recorded by Tom Mackenzie, Saltburn. Sybil Mackenzie recalled being cox in The Swallow at a Cromarty Regatta in the mid- 1930s because the usual boy who coxed was ill. Swallow won the race but was disqualified, as the cox was a girl !
Saltburn Boating Club, established 1920s.
Saltburn Boating Club, established 1920s.
Saltburn Boating Club, established 1920s.
Saltburn Boating Club, established 1920s.
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