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Bervie old Parish Kirk yard, various
One of the photographs show 2 of the notable memorial slabs, one decorated with relief carved memento mori and two unusual figures, the other photographs show a grand Victorian/Edwardian monument in polished pink and grey granites to a "David Webster flax spinner in Bervie".
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Embossed Lums
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Gates at Gourdon / Inverbervie Cemetery
Gourdon/Inverbervie Cemetery cast iron grave marker
About 1m tall, an unusual memorial in cast iron. In contrast to the innovative material the style is after the neo-classical ideals of the 18th and 19th centuries, architectural in inspiration with fluted columns and relief decoration of swags, scallop shell and etc. . Erected by a William Wilkie to his wife Jane Stewart and also his own memorial. The inscription is on a greenish plaque in ceramic or enamel riveted or screwed to the main body of the memorial. It is also marked as by "Smith and Wellstood Bonnybridge Foundry" and bears a registration number. Presumably these memorials were at one time mass-produced but did not catch on.
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Hercules Linton Memorial, Inverbervie
A full scale carved timber replica of the figurehead from the renowned tea clipper "the Cutty Sark" carved from Linton's original drawings 3 metres tall. with a black granite plaque engraved with the image of the ship. The figurehead depicts the young witch in Robert Burns' poem "Tam O Shanter" grasping the tail of Tam's mare, her right breast bared. In the Scot's language 'cutty sark' means a short shirt or shift, it is interesting that despite that fact and the otherwise erotic nature of the figure, the carving is actually wearing quite a long shift, perhaps the Victorian era was much more at ease with tits than with bums.
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Jubilee Bridge Inverbervie, alternative names Bervie Water; Inverbervie, the New Bridge, Bervie Jubilee Bridge
Built on a curve, Bervie Jubilee Bridge is a fine reinforced concrete viaduct taking the main road (A92) from Montrose to Stonehaven over the Bervie Burn on seven spans. The bridge was completed in 1935 (the silver jubilee of George V) and by-passed an earlier single-arched masonry bridge built in 1799, which still survives adjacent to the north abutment.
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King David of Scotland Episcopal Church
A corrugated iron church with truncated, gothic pointed cut out windows. A unusual bell support at one end of felted roof. Now becoming rare corrugated iron buildings were once something of a feature of the rural Scottish landscape. Village halls, churches, shops and houses were all produced in this material.
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Mercat Cross Inverbervie
Like many post reformation Scottish mercat crosses not actually a cross at all. The chief purpose of these structures was to show the town or burgh had a right to hold a market in the place indicated rather than a religious one. It is a simple polygonal sectioned column surmounted by a cone-shaped ball on similarly polygonal stepping on a polygonal dais.
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Newbigging house sign
Newbigging (std. Eng. new building) House sign in wrought iron, with scroll work and leaf decoration.
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Play group mural at Inverbervie
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Various cast iron gates railings and etc in Victoria Terrace, Montrose Road and Castle Terrace , Inverbervie
An unusually good group of cast iron railings all in the same area of this small town. Many such railings in the urban and suburban Scottish landscape were removed 'for the War Effort' in the 1940s, along with all those saucepans that were allegedly needed to make Spitfires. The collecting teams must have missed this little area leaving it with something of its original Edwardian appearance. Also noteworthy is the Inverbervie Church gate overthrow see the external links.
The second to last photograph also shows a very fine pillar top lantern, presumably originally gas-lit.
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