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Peterhead is a fishing port in the far north-east of Scotland. The club was formed in 1890, adopting a patch of land in Raemoss Park as their home ground, which was renamed Recreation Park and opened in 1891. The club joined the six-team Aberdeenshire League in 1900. They remained playing at this level until the early 1930s when they stepped up to the Highland League, regarded as the strongest of the competitions outside the Scottish League itself.
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Peterhead is Aberdeenshire's largest settlement. It has a relatively diverse economy, including food processing, textiles, service industries and, importantly, fishing. Peterhead was founded by the Keith Earls Marischal in 1587, and was developed as a planned settlement. In 1593 the construction of Peterhead's first harbour, Port Henry, established a base for trade and safety which has grown into Europe's premier white fish landing port. Over 90,000 tonnes of fish, with a value of around £60m are now landed at Peterhead, which is ... base to over 550 fishermen.
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Sans façon produced a map which was distributed at the conference, called ‘an Introduction to Peterhead through some of its hearsay’, which drew on the interviews Sans façon had conducted with local people. The council’s arts team ... asked Sans façon to curate commissions by three artists, to feature alongside the conference: ‘we put the artists forward, were involved in selecting them, worked with the artists on developing their proposals and helped them realise the works’. Ginny Hutchison transformed a dark alley in Kirk Street by applying gold leaf to the walls, ‘to create a suntrap, whilst drawing attention to architectural features’ (press release). Stephen Healy designed an animated neon light depicting a whale in motion; this was sited at a fishmonger’s in the harbour area and evoked the long-distance whaling expeditions of the past. Jean Bei Ning made films and a sound work that featured local people and their stories; one of his films was projected onto the town’s historic ice factory and his other works were exhibited in various parts of the town. Saskia Gibbon secured funding from Scottish Arts Council for the three commissions and undertook project management.
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Led by the headteacher, many staff in Peterhead Academy had recognised the need for change to ensure more consistently effective provision for all pupils. Most staff showed high levels of commitment to the school and its pupils, gave appropriate attention to pupils’ pastoral care and supported activities which developed pupils’ broader achievements. There were... variations across the school in the quality of learning and teaching, the support provided for pupils and standards of achievement. In taking forward priorities for improvement, the school will be able to build on several existing examples of effective practice in key aspects of its work.
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Due to the piecemeal nature of its growth, and the geographical limitations of its setting, the centre of Peterhead appears less regular than the centres of many planned Scottish burghs. In Keithinch, the oldest part of the town (sheet XXIII.&.18), streetnames like Shiprow and Ship Street reflect the fact that this was originally purely a fishing village, while Castle Street was probably the route between the village and Inverugie Castle. The burghal centre of Peterhead, built west of Keithinch, and connected to it by a narrow isthmus, reflects the town's growth as a more significant trading centre in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The main thoroughfare, Broad Street, leads towards the harbours, and is a wide, open area where markets could be held (sheet XXIII.7.17). Peterhead's town house is at the west end of Broad Street, while the parish church is a little further west. The streets to the immediate north-west of the centre are laid out in a more formal, gridiron pattern, suggesting this area of the town was built in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.
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In 1947, Peterhead won the Qualifying Cup (North) and the Highland League, both for the first time. They finished as runners-up in 1948 and then won two more championships in successive seasons. Decline followed and when the 1954-55 season was abandoned due to the severe winter weather, the club faced bankruptcy and closure. During the close season a group of supporters reformed the club and charged members 2/6d (12.5p) each to join. The reformed Peterhead continued in the Highland League as a modest mid-table side.
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