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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563951
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/563951
Sailor statue in freestone, early/mid-19th century, outside hotel: engaging, near life-size with large head, said to have been carved for a sailor's widow who came from Kingsford, near Alford. It was rescued from a rubbish dump near
Craigievar by the collector Postie Lawson and moved with him to Oldmeldrum in 1938.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
