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Sunbank,Lossiemouth
« on: Sunday 26 October 14 20:20 GMT (UK) »
Query Sunbank farm  where there cottages attached to the farm for workers any one got any pics or stories as my cousins mother lived there at one time.

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Re: Sunbank,Lossiemouth
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 October 14 21:22 GMT (UK) »
You can see Sunbank on the mid-Victorian six-inch Ordnance Survey map here

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.70946&lon=-3.28645&layers=5

If you use the slider labelled <> on the left to switch from the old map to a modern satellite view.

Most of he buildings at Sunbank have gone. The area was a quarry, from which they extracted sand and gravel. It is now called Sunbank Park.

About 30 years ago there was a move to turn it into a dinosaur park, because some important reptile fossils had come from not far away at Hopeman. It's a good thing it didn't come to anything, because the Hopeman reptiles are about 100 million years older than the first dinosaurs!
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Re: Sunbank,Lossiemouth
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 29 October 14 12:47 GMT (UK) »
The main farm house was divided up into flats, but from the late 1970s onwards it's back to being one house. 

Valuation rolls will be able to tell you who owned it at the time your mother's cousin was there, and you should be able to get them either via the Heritage Centre in Elgin (www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_1537.html) or at Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives (www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/archives)

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Re: Sunbank,Lossiemouth
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 30 October 14 09:52 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the info on Sunbank