07 May
Tarmac paving and driveways
Buckie - AB56
Enquiry from: Mo M
Start Date: Immediate
45m2 patio, approx 60mm thick
Banff
Banff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Banff is a former royal burgh, and is the county town of the historical region of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was built to ward off Viking invaders and also a charter of 1163 AD reveals that Malcolm IV was living there back then. Throughout this period the community was an active trading centre in the "complimentary hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its own harbour until 1775. The first recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and also in 1372 Royal Burgh standing was provided by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was just one of three principal towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen as well as Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and some of the most awful offenders were participants of the nobility. According to documents kept by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse and prison) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of a run-in between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his loved one. Supposedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton during a court hearing. Twenty of his good friends and followers after that attacked Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street and completing him off with a handgun shot. Banff and also Macduff are separated by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was lastly subjugated by the seven curved bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been constructed in 1765, but was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was brought back into use, until it was lost in a flooding in 1773. A public conference was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike roadway in between Turiff and Banff as the existing road remained in a sad state of repair. Later on 19th century transport renovations included the structure of two railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 as well as the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway in 1859 which linked to the primary Aberdeen to Inverness line. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was essential to the herring trade, with production peaking in 1853 at more than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, nonetheless by 1912 production had actually declined to just over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages spoken in the town as well as in its area tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and also English.
