YOUNG lads from the Brickfield area, who have for long enough enjoyed a "bounce" game of football in the field beside the A.C.F hut off Kings Road, were more than a bit "miffed" last week when they turned up for a kick-about – and found their goalposts missing!
The district council, they reckoned, should be "red-carded" for such "foul play", in taking the feet from under them!
It seems that the council had ordered up a brand new set of goalposts for Mineralwell, where a third soccer pitch has been laid ou
t to accommodate the newly-formed Cowie Thistle A.F.C.
They were needed for Thistle's first game on Saturday and when the suppliers were a bit tardy in delivering them, the council's leisure and recreation department were left with no alternative but to "borrow" the Kings Road equipment and hurriedly re-erect the posts at the new pitch.
50 YEARS AGO
Friday August 29 1958
FLOODS which caused the evacuation of the Mill Lade camping site at Stonehaven last summer and earlier this year paled into significance last weekend when scenes without parallel for the last 30 years were witnessed on the northern and southern edges of the town. And, never in the history of the town as a holiday resort had so much damage been caused.
The caravan site at Cowie was flooded to a depth of four or five feet in places, roadside banks gave way in several places and the wall surrounding the Post Office sub-station collapsed onto a couple of caravans.
Damage was not confined to the north end of the town. During the night a section of the Bervie Braes collapsed. The footpath disappeared, cracks appeared almost to the white line in the roadway, and tons of sand were washed down by flood waters into Castle Street and beyond.
Early on Sunday, a further and much bigger landslide took place at a point about 100 yards further up the Bervie Braes. Half of the main trunk road disappeared at this point and about 2000 tons of sand and rubble cascaded down to the harbour below, narrowly missing the Town Council shelter in which a young couple were seated at the time.
The debris shot right across the lower roadway, on to the south pier for about a distance of 50 yards and into the harbour itself.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday August 27 1908
YESTERDAY afternoon a cricket match between the Stonehaven Pierrots and Visitors took place on Cowie cricket ground.
The players were dressed in fancy costumes, some of which were very clever, while all were amusing, and the game occasioned much merriment. There was a large attendance of spectators and the collection on behalf of the funds of the Thistle Cricket Club realised over £4.
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