Stonehaven Tolbooth Museum

04/12/2023

Stonehaven Harbour on 31st January. Looking forward to seeing what the production company thought of the town and harbour.

The broadcast dates for the upcoming ninth series of 'Landscape Artist of The Year' have been announced and the Castle features in the first episode 🎨

The show will be broadcast on Sky Arts - Sky Arts is free to view and is on Freeview Channel 36.

TX 1 - 10th January 8pm – Dunnottar Castle
TX 2 - 17th January 8pm– Liverpool Albert Docks
TX 3 - 24th January 8pm– Hever Lake
TX 4 - 31st January 8pm– Stonehaven Harbour
TX 5 - 7th February 8pm– Liverpool Three Graces
TX 6 - 14th February 8pm– Hever Castle
TX 7: SEMI-FINAL - 21st February 8pm – Bucklers Hard
TX 8: FINAL - 28th February 8pm– The Royal Opera House / TX 9: WINNERS FILM 9pm

01/12/2023

🛍Museum Shop 🛍

The images show just a small selection of the items available in our museum shop.

If you want to shop local and buy from local people - then visit the museum and shop this weekend.

We stock a selection of jewellery made locally with Stonehaven Beach seaglass and pebbles. We also stock Stonehaven Seasalt made with water collected from just offshore.

Thinking ahead to Hogmanay we have handy pocket sized hip flasks and ceramic shot cups. We even have a teatowel with the word 'Cheers' translated in to multiple languages.

And of course we have fridge magnets, baby bibs and lots lots more.

Open this weekend from 12.30pm to 3.30pm

30/11/2023

Happy Sy Andrew's Day

Museum will be open this weekend from 12.30pm to 3.30pm each day.

29/11/2023

New to the museum shop.

A collection of poems written in Doric and English by local poet Alistair Lawrie. £10

Just one of several books in the museum shop that would make lovely Christmas gifts.

28/11/2023

With Mannequin Mike now moved to our viewing area and practising how to swing a fireball, the entryway at the museum was ready for the Christmas tree. Enter Santa's helpers Mary and Clare who have made the museum look more festive - just in time for the snow and Advent.

Pop in and see us this weekend. Open Saturday and Sunday from 12.30pm to 3.30pm

12/11/2023

FOR THE FALLEN by Laurence Binyon

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

07/11/2023

We are so pleased to announce that the museum shop is now stocking a series of cards by local artist Margaret D MacDonald.

📷1 - Snow on the Bervie Braes - from an acrylic.
📷2 - Poppies by the Carron - from an acrylic.
📷3 - Sailing by Dunnottar - from an original painting.
📷4 - Castle Haven - from an original painting.
📷5 - A New Day - from an acrylic.

These cards would be ideal for sending to friends overseas for Christmas or even framed for a gift. Museum will be open this weekend from 12.30pm to 3.30pm each day.

02/11/2023

A regular reader of our Stanehyve Tolbooth Times recently sent us this great image of a group of bakers taken approx 1910 - 1920.

The tall gentleman on the left is our readers great grandfather Alexander Dallas (1874- 1947) who married Agnes Fowler. They had 5 children and lived at Seaview Cottage, 19 Robert Street.

We have identified that the picture was taken outside 9 Cameron Street which was the bake house for David Greig, Baker. His shop was on Market Square where McHardys is today.

Can any of our followers identify any of the other bakers and date the picture?

29/10/2023

🌟Quiz night 27th October 🌟

A BIG thank you 👏👏👏 to all who came along on Friday to support our fundraising event and to the worthy winners. After some expenses, we raised more than 🌟 £500🌟 Amazing!!

BIG thanks also to
▪️Quizmaster Steve Peacock
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▪️Organisers Mary and Clare
▪️Raffle donators incl. and

So if you can answer
🔸️ Who is the oldest Beatle?
🔸️ in which county is Stonehenge?
🔸️who won the Superbowl this year?
Then you have a good chance of doing well at next years event.

🔵 Answers in the comments

29/10/2023

💨 Bad weather closure 💨

The image was taken at 12.20pm today - an hour before the high tide. Sorry folks but museum will be closed today.

Fingers crossed for better weather and hope to see you next weekend.

As we have had to be closed all weekend, we will extend the New Kincardineshire Colony display for a further week - final day will now be Sunday 5th November.

28/10/2023

🌬Museum closed today🌬

Due to the strong winds and very high tides, the museum will be closed this afternoon. Sorry for last minute closure. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

26/10/2023

We want to give a BIG shout out to our neighbours here at the Old Pier and thank them for donating raffle prizes to our fundraising event tomorrow night.



Do you have your tickets yet? If not, you can buy them at the door. British Legion tomorrow evening 27th. Doors open 7.30pm. Quiz starts at 8pm. Tickets £5 each. Teams of 4-6

26/10/2023

This weekend will be your last opportunity to view our display of the New Kincardineshire colony 150th anniversary.

Find out more about the brave adventurers who left their homes here in Stonehaven and the North East and travelled all the way to New Brunswick in Canada 150 years ago.

The display covers the reasons why they left, their journey there, the initial hardships they faced in their new homes, and what happened to them later.

24/10/2023

📢 QUIZ NIGHT

Join us this Friday 27th for our main fundraising event of the year.
You can buy your tickets at the door on the night or text Mary on 07763 220694 to reserve your tickets.

Hope to see you there.

24/10/2023

📢 Quiz Night

Remember that we have our fundraising quiz night this Friday 27th.

You can buy tickets at the door or text Mary on 07763 220694 to reserve your tickets.

Come and support your local museum. Hope to see you there.

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20/10/2023

🎟 Quiz night 🎟

After all this bad weather is hopefully behind us, remember that next Friday 27th we are hosting a fundraising quiz night in the British Legion.

Teams of 4 to 6 players. Different categories for each round. Play your joker card for double points on your favourite category. Great raffle prizes.

Tickets can be purchased from the museum. With Storm Babet still with us, please see social media updates to confirm when we are open.

Tickets will also be available to buy at the door on the night. If you want to ensure your place at the quiz however, please text Mary and she will set tickets aside for you to pickup. Tel 07763 220694

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20/10/2023

📢 Visitor Notice 📢

Museum will be closed today 20th and tomorrow 21st.

A decision about Sunday opening will be made tomorrow.

Babet is still with us so stay safe everyone.

19/10/2023

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The image might be from more than 100 years ago, but bad weather is bad weather.

Given the forecast for Friday, we will not be opening the museum tomorrow - 20th.

A decision will be made tomorrow about our weekend opening hours.

Stay safe everyone.

17/10/2023

Got the October holiday blues? Kids are fed up already? You have run out of ideas for entertaining them?

Pick up a Treasure Trail map of Stonehaven from and solve the clues.

And if it is too wet to go treasure hunting, visit the museum this weekend instead. Plenty to see and a dinosaur trail for the children.

Treasure Trails and Dinosaur Trails - holiday ideas sorted 👍

17/10/2023

14/10/2023

Remember we are still open at weekends from 12.30pm to 3.30pm both days

11/10/2023

🥔🥔 Tattie Holidays 🥔🥔

With school holidays coming up we always try and open extra days for the tattie holidays.
Next week we are open Monday 16th and Friday20th as well as our regular Saturday and Sunday
Open 12.30pm to 3.30pm
FREE entry to oldest building in Stonehaven.

06/10/2023

Remember you can buy your tickets for our quiz night at the museum this weekend. Open from 12.30pm to 3.30pm on Saturday and Sunday

02/10/2023

We have now changed to our winter opening hours. Weekends only from 12.30pm to 3.30pm.

There will however be extra openings during the October school tattie holidays - details to follow.



📷 Jeremy Thomas

01/10/2023

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QUIZ NIGHT

We are having a quiz night fundraiser later on this month. Put on your thinking caps, get together with friends and see if you can be Tolbooth Quiz Champions.

With lots of different subject categories, play double point jokers, and a chance to win great raffle prizes.

Tickets can be bought from the museum at weekends or at the door on the night ( if still available)

We hope to see you there.

28/09/2023

We need your help to answer a query.

A local teacher is asking if any children were evacuated to Stonehaven during WW2 and if so, which schools did they attend?

We know that the big industrial cities did evacuate children to quieter, rural areas - but did any come to Stoney?

Let us know

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19/09/2023

Some more interesting images from our recent donation. This time they are of our harbour. No dates given on reverse - so do you have any ideas? When were these photos taken?

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15/09/2023

We are taking part this weekend in Open Days 2023.

Visit the oldest building in Stonehaven. It was built in the late 1500's and has been a Tolbooth since 1600.

The centuries have seen it be a storage facility for Dunnottar Castle, a courthouse and jail and now over 400 years later a restaurant (upstairs) and museum (downstairs).

14/09/2023

Museum Favourites

What a lot of homes in the 19th and early 20th century would have had

📷 1 - you would need to grind your seed to make flour for baking.
📷 2 - a 1950's kitchen cabinet. Ours is pale green. What colour was the one in your family - because we bet you or someone you know had one.
📷 3 - a coal fired range oven. Heating the home, the kettle, the pot of food and even your irons for pressing clothes.
📷 4 - a 1920's washing machine. Still manual and requiring lots of muscle power.
📷 5 - a Singer treadle sewing machine. A real skill required to keep feet moving the treadle and at the same time have hands guiding the fabric.

12/09/2023

A heartfelt thank you to the members of Stonehaven Horizon Group. The town looks great with all your hard work. And a personal thank you from the volunteers here at Stonehaven Tolbooth Museum for maintaining all the planters around the harbour area and outside our museum. 👏👏

08/09/2023

The recent donation to the museum of old Stonehaven photos gave us these great images of our outdoor pool. They are all taken in the 1930's - but look at the crowds for a swimming gala!!!

Image 3 is presumably taken in 1933/34 when pool was under construction.

06/09/2023

When you volunteer at the museum, you never know who or what will come in the door.

Today we received a donation of old images of Stonehaven including this one.

Taken we believe in February 1938, it shows the boys and girls who had competed in the annual festival of the Stonehaven Fatherland Burns Club.

The reverse of the image says they are pictured on the steps outside Sunnyhill where the competition has been held.

After a Google search, the only Sunnyhill listed in Stonehaven is a house on Ann Street.

Will this be the correct building? Do you recognise anyone in the image?
Let us know.

06/09/2023

Got a lovely free coffee surprise when I popped in to our neighbours here at . Thanks guys.

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02/09/2023

Interesting old photo of Stonehaven looking east along Dunnottar Avenue towards Old Town and Harbour

Description Stonehaven, general view, showing Dunnottar Avenue and Stonehave Harbour. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-east.

25/08/2023

Thank you NorthLink Ferries for listing us in your 10 hidden gems.

Here is a guide to the lesser-known sites in and around Aberdeen. Hidden gems include Kildrummy Castle, Girdleness Lighthouse and much more!