Mr Johnstone Headmaster sitting on bench 2nd from right John Fotheringham                                                                                              Back left John Lindsay In frontof him is far left Mary Ritchie,row in front again 2nd left Nellie Taylor and on far right Rosie Smith

From back left Rbt Barbour,And Raffan,Peter Morrison,Billie Reid,John Gove,Alex.Walker,D.Flannigan,J.Barbour,A.McColl,I Walker Miss Lees

Middle rowDerek Birse Charles Dorward,Bruce StewartTom Lee,,John Craig,John Donaldson,Stephen Burness,B Davidson, MalcolmMartin Chas Coutts,Ian Gowans, Robert Ritchie

front row Ann Ritchie,Evelyn Whyte,Irene Lan,Eliz Milne,Stella Lindsay, Winifred Harvie,Shiela Taylor,J Mellis,Nora Ritchie,Rosemary Coutts.

Goods train

Baiting the line & sheiling mussels I think this is David Wylie and wife

Picture from Mrs Elizabeth Proctor(Betty Leiper)

of her grandmother Alexina Gowan Christie (MS Craig)

Husband Alexander Christie with twins Alexanderina ( Bettys mum) and sister Lily.

Below are picturesa from L to right of David Christie, next Andy Christie who emigrated and died in Australia, next Davids son Commander Joseph Christie ,next Hugh David and Andy Christie

Picture of Jane Lownie married to  David Christie with her family and to the left their daughter Jane Bell McIntosh (MS Christie)

This is a photograph of Xmas or Burns Supper at Scapa Flow with crews of the Artic Convoys /North Sea escort /minsweeps crew WW11

My father Andrew Ritchie is 11th from the left second row Possibly other locals from Gourdon/Johnshaven and other coastal fishing villages

are also there

Edward Mowat & wife Catherine Ritchie

Me and my sister Ann

Above are pictures of my paternal grandparents Andrew Ritchie & Anne Lowniealso my parents Andrew Richie & Annabell Fotheringham

The following seven paper clippings relate to the 23rd September 1947 when the fishing boat Elizabeth was missing in a storm and believed lost

It was found 20 miles off Aberdeen by the trawler Soubrette who began the tow then the tow was taken up by the Happy Return Gourdon fishing boat

The crew of the Elizabeth were William Lownie,John Duncan Smith, Alexander Souter and James McBay.