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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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REFORM TOWER | Reform Tower Reform Tower Reform Tower Reform Tower |
Mr. Thomas Arbuthnot Peterhead Mr. William Alexander Peterhead Mr. A. Murray Peterhead Buchan by The Rev. [Reverend] J.B. Pratt Cruden |
023 | Applies to a large Tower or Monument about 19 ft square at the bottom and 76 feet in height erected in 1833 by The Whig party in Peterhead in commeration [commemoration] of the passing of the Reform Bill in Parliament in 1832; the Tory party having erected a column in the town of Peterhead the Whig party erected this one on Meet Hill. There is a winding staircase up the inside of it for people to go to the top of it, it originally was intended to have a room at the top of it so that people could have a fine view of the sea and the country from it, it is still in an unfinished state owing principally to the right of way leading to it being lost through the property and lands being sold to a different proprietor; it is built on an artificial Mound of earth about 6 ft [feet] in height with a stone wall around it. |
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