Banff & Macduff when you were a kid

29/05/2026

The weekend is here and so is our brand new Test of Time chart. Did you get all of the Teazer questions right this week? Well done to you if you did.
So, we are going back to the chart of the week ending May 30th 1969 . Get your votes in by Monday night, remember your first three count, but all good if you want to add more 😀

Have a great weekend 🌞😀🌞🥂🍺🍷🎉
(Thanks to Mike Duncan for organizing this week's Test of Time for us)

29/05/2026

TEST IF TIME FRIDAY TEAZER
From Mike Duncan:
"Right folks, a few clues and just for fun a couple of questions relating to this week’s Test Of Time chart. Top twenty will be posted later today. Good luck.

CHART WISE
Songs this week include “Dizzy”, “The Boxer”, “Oh Happy Day” and “Galveston”.

YOUR QUESTIONS
??? At no.1 this week is The Beatles with “Get Back”, but who was the fifth Beatle featured in the song ???

??? At no.15 is Booker T & The MG’s with “Time Is Tight”. This song was played every Tuesday on Radio One in the early seventies. Why and by whom ???

IN THE NEWS
NASA launched Apollo 10, sending astronauts to within 15 km of the Moon’s surface as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming lunar landing

The luxury ocean liner QE2 departed Southampton on its maiden voyage to New York

LOCALLY
'Dr Zhivago' and 'Barbarella' were both showing at Banff Picture House and 'Mr Fantasy' were playing at a barn dance at Fairburn Dairy Longmanhill

BUT WHAT WAS THE YEAR
Answers here from 3PM. Until next week, take care.
Mike”.

26/05/2026

On this very day, 1982 - The Rolling Stones last played in Aberdeen. Were you there..?

An incredible night, 44 years ago:
The Rolling Stones played their last Aberdeen gig at The Capitol Theatre on the 26th of May, 1982 - the opening night of their European Tour.
The Capitol is the only Aberdeen venue that The Stones ever played at - their other two visits were on the 19th of May 1964; and on the 1st of June 1965.

Were you at any of these shows?? Let us know!

Listen to the biggest classic vintage hits, non-stop on original 106 GOLD - Always 60s, 70s, 80s:
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📸Press and Journal/DC Thomson

25/05/2026

Thanks to Dod for sharing this beauty of a photo.
"Bridge street taken by local photographer F W Ritchie"

24/05/2026

Iris Walker shared this wonderful local summer Sunday moment in time, from long ago, with us a few years ago. Hope the sun shines for everyone today and that at least a few of you will get the use of a 'knotted handkerchief', like the gent has in Iris's photo 🌞🌞

23/05/2026

Thanks to Roy Robinson for sharing this illustration with us, from 'The Book of Banff".
"Roy Chillingworth's impression of eleventh-century Banff. The town was on the top of the Brae, now the High Street, with the Castle separate to the north". The
Castle was built as a defence from Viking raiders.

(Didn't Roy Chillingworth play for the Vale?)

23/05/2026

Here is our Test of Time result for the UK Singles Chart of week ending May 12th 1974, as announced by Gayle on this week's Deveron FM Saturday Mid Morning Show.

In a chart brim full of 'glamrockers' and 'teenyboppers', we have another first this week as we have a tie for your number one choice. Abba's huge 89 votes for 'Waterloo', being matched by Terry Jacks' 'Seasons in the Sun', over thirty votes clear of the second placed Rubettes

We have another 'nil pointer' this week and once again it's a top act of the time with the Osmonds getting a 'duck' for 'I Can't Stop'. Surprisingly, a great tune of the day and on almost every 1970's station playlist, 'Doctors Orders' only managed to scrape up two votes. Give both a listen, you might just remember them and think differently? ( Links to both are below)

Usual protocol of votes in by this coming Monday night, please, for this week's Test of Time, which is looking at the chart of week ending May 22nd 1982

I Can't Stop - The Osmonds
https://youtu.be/ni9f7yIbqXA?si=za7bQJjD6FOkU3Bg

Doctors Orders - Sunny
https://youtu.be/7F-mG6ouR5Q?si=CanFrFsLEvMgNIxW

23/05/2026

The dust bowl that was the 1976 Banff Gala Demolition Derby at Boyndie Drome as captured by David Ingram

23/05/2026

ANNALS OF BANFF.
Court records from the 1600's. The fictional 'Alexander Seaton's' Banff was not too far off the mark it seems!
The 1600's equivalent of page 3 of the P&J of a few years ago when there was the local court reports on a Tuesday.

1638
July 8.-" [The procurator-fiscal complains against Margaret Dunbar adulterix concerning her lewd life and scandalous carriage] and anent hir braking and transgressioun of divers actis of the Kirk-Sessioun of the said burghe. [She voluntarily agrees to banish herself from the burgh and parish in all time coming under pain of death] and if schoe transgres and doe in the contrair schoe is content of her awin consent to be apprehendit and drowned.

November 20. James Barclay being warded within the tolbooth of this burgh till he should find sufficient caution that he should obtemper and obey the ministers and elders of the parish of Innerboyndie for his fornication betwixt the said James and Isobel Haccat sometime in Quhyntie, Gavin Thomson becomes cautioner for him.

November 20.-Andrew Cullen yr being imprisoned for contravening an act made against him that he should neither drink in private nor public outwith his father's house, John Gordon becomes cautioner for him.

November 24.-The procurator fiscal complains of dear and bad-ale, bear and bread. [Generally in the town of Banff I assume]. An assise fix the price of ale at 12d. the pint, beer 16d., the quarter of cakes 6d., and the oat loaf at 12d.]

1693.-The Executioner whipped. His death. "Paid to our ex*****oner at severall tymes 3 firlotts meill, £2 12s. His chist, his winding sheet, naills to it and making of it, with ale to his likewake and to the officers for convoying the coffen, £5 16s. Given the hangmens [sic] befor that he wes whipped, 8s. Payed to Duncan Mikdonald at his ontaking, 6s. Given him for whipping Alester his predicessor and Donald Ross, 12s. Item for that vse fyve fathomes of towes, 5s. Given him of seillarie from the 17th of August to the 30th of Sept., £3 12s.

1694, June. "Paid for ane fathom towes to the hangman, Is. 6d. August 10th. Paid for ane fathome towes for whipeing Christan Peirie, 2s. 6d.

1695.-A Woman Hanged. "James Clark, thesaurer, pay William Reid, John Mair, William Antone, and John Sinclar twenty four shilling Scots for atending the ex*****on of Margaret M'Keane. Given at Banff this teinth of Nov., 1695. Alex. Vallace, Balive.' 'James Clark, thesaurer, pay James Baxter and James Milne twelve shilling Scots for making of Margaret M'Eaten's grave. Given at Bamff the 13th Nov.

22/05/2026

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED
The weekend is here and so is our brand new Test of Time chart. Did you get all of the Teazer questions right this week? Well done to you if you did.
So, we are going back to the chart of week ending May 22nd 1982. Get your votes in by Monday night, remember your first three count, but all good if you want to add more 😀

Have a great weekend 🌞😀🌞🥂🍺🍷🎉

22/05/2026

TEST OF TIME TEAZER.....
New chart at 5pm. Let's get 20 comments answering Mike's questions? 😀

"Right folks, a few clues and just for fun a couple of chart related questions relating to this week’s Test Of Time featured year. All you have to do is tell me the year. The top twenty will be posted later today. Good luck.

CHART WISE
Songs this week include “Only You”, “Goody Two Shoes”, “House Of Fun” and “Hungry Like The Wolf”.

YOUR QUESTIONS
???At no.3 this week is PHD with “I Won’t Let You Down”. Vocalist Jim Diamond went on to have a no.1 hit on his own with “I Should Have Known Better”. In 1986 Jim returned to the charts with the theme song from what ITV drama series???

???Joan Jett and The Blackhearts scored their only top twenty hit with “I Love Rock n Roll”. Who originally wrote and recorded the song? (No Googling Alec!)???

IN THE NEWS
The Falklands War was ongoing and Pope John Paul II was the first reigning Pontiff to visit the UK since 1531. ( Now that’s a Test Of Time chart I’d like to see).

LOCALLY
Boots the chemist closed its doors on Low Street after serving for many years. (Anyone know how long they were there?)

BUT WHAT WAS THE YEAR
Answers here from 3PM. Until next week, take care.
Mike”