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Fraserburgh, Kinnaird Head Fish Canning Works
Factory (19th Century)
Site Name Fraserburgh, Kinnaird Head Fish Canning Works
Classification Factory (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Farserburgh, Fish Canning Works; Kinnaird Head Preserving Works
Canmore ID 20769
Site Number NJ96NE 16
NGR NJ 998 674
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20769
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fraserburgh
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ96NE 16 998 674
(Location cited as NK 000 674). Founded 1883 by Maconochie Bros. A group of buildings of various dates, 1- and 2-storey, with circular-section brick chimney.
J R Hume 1977.
Publication Account (2010)
Kinnaird Head Preserving Works in Bath Street, founded in 1883 by the Maconochie Brothers. Initially it canned herring during the season, mainly for export, but from the end of the nineteenth century it produced army rations, establishing its reputation during the Boer War and providing the famous ‘Maconochie rations’ to the British armed services in two World Wars.397 The presence of this factory was to provide a substantial prop to the remaining locally based fishing industry after the collapse of the herring trade.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Fraserburgh: Archaeology and Development’, (2010).
