Wairuna – Shandon People and History

Burning Cargo Ship

ABERDEEN PRESS AND JOURNAL, MONDAY 13TH AUGUST 1945 MILLIONS OF PEANUTS ABLAZE Firemen had nothing to eat but peanuts when they fought an alarming outbreak of fire in the cargo ship Wairuna in the Gareloch, off Shandon, at the weekend. Millions of peanuts in the hold of the vessel began to sizzle and roast asContinue reading “Burning Cargo Ship”

Fires at Shandon

WITNESS (EDINBURGH), SATURDAY 4TH DECEMBER 1847 DESTRUCTION OF SHANDON HOUSE BY FIRE On Wednesday morning, about six o’clock, the inmates of the mansion-house of Walter Buchanan, Esquire of Shandon, were roused by fire breaking out in the upper part of the building, which, with the exception of the two wings, was in a very shortContinue reading “Fires at Shandon”