Wrought Iron Sunflower

Wrought Iron Sunflower

Location

Fraserburgh corner of intersection of Cross Street and Saltoun Place
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire

Description

An exuberant wrought iron sunflower

Related Information

The building (Cross Street /Saltoun Place) designed by Mr McMillan with a turret topped by a dome with a wrought iron sunflower. Here was a bakery belonging to the Whyte family who, after having traded in Fraserburgh since 1875, left for South Africa where they made a considerable fortune. They are remembered by the "Margaret Whyte Fund", money that was bequeathed to individual citizens of the town in memory of their mother

Era

1800s

Information Source

Historical Walks Around Fraserburgh by Mary W. Melville.

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Iconography

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Photographer

  • Isobel Gregory

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