Welcome to Fraserburgh, otherwise known locally as "The Broch". It is a fishing town situated on the North East corner of the Aberdeenshire Coast. It was founded in the 16th century by the Frasers of Philorth, who's descendants still live only a few miles from the town. A university was founded here in 1592 by Sir Alexander Fraser but unfortunately it only lasted about 10 years. The town expanded rapidly in the 19th century with the success of the herring fishing, and remains an important fishing port with several fish processing factories. Although in recent years the fishing port of Fraserburgh has been going downhill with the loss of several boats due to them being scrapped/decommissioned
In 1900 more than 1000 fishing boats were registered in the port of Fraserburgh, and many more vessels was using the Port to land their Catch. This old Photo - from Approx 1900 shows clearly you were able to walk across all the boats to get to the other side of the harbour.
Kinnaird Head Lighthouse was built in 1787 on top of the Fraser tower house which was built in approx 1570, the Lighthouse was the first to be built by the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses. Now in the care of Historic Scotland, it now houses the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses with the local Museum, Fraserburgh Heritage Centre next door.
For those of you who do not know. Fraserburgh is situated 42 miles North of Aberdeen in Scotland. Fraserburgh is a small town and has a Population of approx 13.000.
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Click Here to View a Webcam of Fraserburgh Seashore
The Public in
Fraserburgh had a great opportunity to Vote for Fibre Optic Broadband during the last few months of 2010. In
total 6,617 customers had the opportunity to Vote, unfortunately only 200 People in the Broch voted for BT Infinity
before the closing date of 31 December 2010. Before the scheme could be looked into in more detail, BT required 1,000 people to Vote for the
Upgrade.
BT INFINITY would have allowed the community in the Broch to download at speeds in excess of 40mbps and upload at speeds of 7 mbps at
a minimum. In real terms the download speeds would have been in excess of 80 mbps but for the time being, the local community have lost
out and will have to put up with standard broadband speeds of 8mbps for the foreseeable future at least.
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