He was born the son of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk in the Mearns, and educated at Aberdeen University.

Laurencekirk Primary school was built in 1999 and Mearns Academy, the senior school, is due for replacement in the near future.

Alongside the commercial enterprise of the local newspaper, The Observer The Kincardineshire Observer ( often referred to as The Squeeker ) which was first published in 1902, Laurencekirk has a Local Community Radio Station in Mearns FM.

Laurencekirk has three public houses ; the Crown and The Royal attract the younger patrons while the Western is a regular haunt for the older locals.

Representations are being made for a grade separated junction ( flyover ) at the south end of the A90 Laurencekirk bypass and a petition has been presented to parliament.

Broadcasting from Stonehaven Town Hall to the town and surrounding area, the station aims to help keep Stonehaven, Inverbervie and Laurencekirk up to date with local and charity events, as well as playing music.

Broadcasting from nearby Stonehaven in the Townhall, Mearns FM helps to keep Laurencekirk up to date with local and charity events, as well as playing a wee bit of music.

These cameras can be found on long fast stretches of road, and shortly before dangerous junctions, such as at the Laurencekirk junction where a 50 mph speed limit is in force.

The burgh of Stonehaven became the county town, and the county included three other burghs, Banchory, Inverbervie and Laurencekirk.

It is located northwest of Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire on the B966 from Edzell.

After his primary education at the parish school of Laurencekirk, he studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen from where he graduated in 1729.

Before joining Stagecoach, Strathtay operated only as far as Laurencekirk in the north ; however, the Montrose depot has acquired some work from Bluebird's Stonehaven depot, including route 24 from Brechin to Stonehaven, route 103 from Laurencekirk to Aberdeen and a handful of School Contracts serving Mackie Academy in Stonehaven.

Charters from the reign of William the Lion show that the king granted the Barclay estates of Laurencekirk and Fordoun to Humphrey son of Theobald, in right of his wife Agatha.

Laurencekirk ( Scottish Gaelic: Coinmheadh ) is a small town in the ancient county of Kincardineshire, modern county of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road.

Laurencekirk is situated in the valley between the Hill of Garvock and the Cairn O ' Mount.

A tribute centre can be visited at Arbuthnott a few miles from Laurencekirk.

The former Laurencekirk Mart houses various facilities including a children's play centre and beauty therapy premises.

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he was long past the point of coherent thinking.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

His cause was to commemorate the glory of her past and to incite her people to perpetuate it in the present.

Heidenstam's conception, on the contrary, was to revive the present by the memories of the past.

It was well past midnight.

that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.

A week later the sentence of the Council was carried out: Jake Camaret and the woman were marched naked through the streets past a mocking populace.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.

It was full-of-the-moon ( or a little past ), and nearly light as day.

But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.

Instead of 3 a.m. in the past, the Juniors Class at Westminster was held at 4:45 p.m..

The relinquishing by philosophy of pretentious claims to empirical priority gives it an ability to treat problems of meaning and truth which in the past it was unable to examine because of its missionary attitude to knowledge of more humble sorts.

For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.

The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.

The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.

`` In the past anyone who said that 90% of all malocclusion is hereditary was scoffed at ; ;