THE structural problems of Orlit houses have been brought to the attention of Mr Alick Buchanan-Smith, M.P. for Kincardine and Deeside, both by tenants of Kincardine and Deeside District Council and by some who have bought their houses from the council.
Scottish Office Minister Michael Ancram, M.P., explained that while there may be no immediate faults in a house of the Orlit type, it is likely that such faults will develop in most Orlits in time. There is no reason to believe that any Orlits are un
safe, but the tendency now is to view them as having a limited remaining life.
Mr John Nicol, Kincardine and Deeside District Council's housing director, said that there are 166 Orlit houses among the district housing stock, all in Stonehaven. They are in Christie Crescent, George Terrace, Kings Road and Ramsay Road.
Mr Nicol expressed the feeling that only a small number of the houses may need "minor remedial works", and that this would present "no great problem".
50 YEARS AGO
Friday September 12 1958
SPEAKING of the recent flooding at Cowie, Provost Christie paid tribute to all who helped to alleviate the conditions.
He made special mention Mr Hart, Mains of Cowie, who lent his tractor free of charge to the police; to the staff at Woodcot hospital; and particularly to the private individuals who put their homes at the disposal of flooded-out caravanners and campers.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday September 10 1908
ON Thursday night no little sensation was created in the Old Town by the disappearance of a girl six years of age named Lees, daughter of a fisherman residing there.
It seems that shortly after seven o' clock last night, the child was sent out to a neighbouring shop a message, but failed to return. Her prolonged absence created alarm in the minds of her parents, who, on enquiry found that the child had duly executed its message.
As darkness set in search parties were organised, who, making use of their boat lamps, searched the land in every direction.
Nothing more transpired till between five and six o'clock next morning, when a farm servant named Clark, employed at Braehead Farm, on going to his work, found the child sound asleep under a hay stack.
Clark took the child in charge and conveyed it to its parents, who, it may be presumed, were very well pleased to see it safe and sound.
Braehead Farm is at the top of the Bervie Braes, about three-quarters of a mile by the main road from the High Street, but there are short cuts from the Old Town which make it much less.
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