Urgent roof tile replacement after storm damage in Coleraine Published: 29/01/2025 A roof tile has gone missing due to a storm in Coleraine. With a replacement tile ready, learn how the repair is carried out, costs involved, and how to prevent further damage. Read this article
Laurencekirk
Laurencekirk is a small town in the historical region of Kincardineshire, Scotland, simply off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen highway, which bypassed it in 1985. It is carried out as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the largest settlement in the Howe o' the Mearns location and houses the regional secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was granted the Charter Mark in 2003. Its old name was Conveth, an anglification of the Gaelic Coinmheadh, describing an obligation to provide complimentary food and also board to passing troops. Laurencekirk is in the valley between the Hill of Garvock and the Cairn O' Mount. The popular site of the Johnston Tower can be seen on the optimal of the Garvock. Laurencekirk was, in the past, understood for making snuff boxes with a special kind of impermeable joint (called a "Laurencekirk joint") designed by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (currently obsolete) initially showed up in the early 1900s. The club closed at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote much about The Mearns and the surrounding area in his publication Sunset Song. A tribute centre can be gone to at Arbuthnott a couple of miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart worked with the land at Laurencekirk in the 2nd World War, and his narratives use his observations of rural life here.