Slains Castle Cruden Bay 1930

[wilcoxon]

 I found a person living here in 1930 valuation rolls. She was  Cissie Gregory the widow of the Cruden Bay coast guard who died  4 December 1929 at Cruden Bay .
 
In 1930 , she is at The Garden, Slains Castle, Cruden Bay.

Are there any photos of this place, all I seem to have found are ruins. Also there seems to have been 2 Slain Castles which doesn`t help.
In fact - any info will help.

[isobelw]

The webpage of the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay www.kilmarnockarms.com has a picture of New Slains Castle before it became a ruin  (click on the history tab)
Isobel

[wilcoxon]

 Thanks,

[Forfarian]

Moderator - suggest moving this to Aberdeenshire.

[Forfarian]

There were indeed two Slains Castles.

Old Slains is some way south of Cruden Bay, closer to Collieston. See
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1788280
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.3605&lon=-1.9132&layers=5&b=1 https://canmore.org.uk/site/20953/old-slains-castle

The other one is a short distance north of Cruden Bay, and is in rather better condition though still ruined
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NK1036
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.4159&lon=-1.8319&layers=5&b=1
https://canmore.org.uk/site/21149/slains-castle which also has lots of photographs of it before it became a ruin.

You can see that the old castle was demolished in 1594, so it seems likely that this reference in the 1930s was to the new castle.