Cluny Harbour is still to this day the heart of the town in Buckie but how has it changed over the years?
The first harbour was built in 1857 and was made of stone. The Cluny family replaced the first harbour in 1877 as the Nether Buckie harbour was unfit for continuous purpose.
The harbour still to this day is very sturdily built and is vital to engineering science.
By 1913 the harbour had the largest steam drifter fleet in Scotland as it was once a thriving fishing and shipbuilding port.
Buckie is regarded as one of the main points for the Scottish Shelfish industry and food processing remains important as there are large fish factories and smoke houses around the harbour.
Until recently there were three separate boatyards building traditional wooden clinker fishing vessel, however, this industry has declined in the North-East.
Charles Eckersley, from Manchester, moved to Buckie in the 1950s and started trading as a fish merchant.
He noticed that many of the varieties of shellfish that were regarded as economically useless by Buckie fishing vessels, shellfish such as prawns and scallops and he seized the opportunity to exploit this gap in the market.
He built a thriving business and eventually expanded overseas giving Buckie that revenue.
Fishing became more known to fishermen in Peterhead, Fraserburgh and Aberdeen, however Buckie found their niche in the market.
