Where i grew up :o)

Reading a friends journal she found where she grew up on wikipedia and challenged her readers to find their own hometowns...So i did and thought i'd do an entry on here about it LOL...I didn't find out anything that i didn't already know but it is a beautiful village on the north east coast of scotland...What it is most famous for would be Cullen Skink soup and it's ice cream <yum>

The heart of Robert the Bruce is supposed to be buried in the Old Kirk...The earliest parts of the kirk date from 11th century...It's also the oldest pre-reformation church in scotland still used as a church today...The reason it survived the reformation is because the Earl of Seafield at that time used it as a stable for his horses...The kirk has been added to over the years...I used to go and do rubbings of the gravestones around it when i was a child...When i was small we used to go to sunday school after the service and walk home through the *grounds*...The grounds being all the trees etc which are very extensive and are private now...They are only open at specific times and days of the week and have been for quite a few years...The church is not within the village but slightly more inland...Next to it is what was  Cullen House...This is a huge old building that was sold by the current earl many years ago and turned into flats and houses...Not knocked down like but renovated and divided up inside...As with most of the aristocracy he couldn't afford the upkeep...When they were renovating and converting it they found an old 16th century painted ceiling that had been *missing* for years...Sadly it was destroyed in a huge fire that happened during the renovation...Also beside the kirk is what we all call the white house or dowager (spelling???) house...That is where the earl lives now but had originally been built for one of past earls mothers...When i was very young the current earls son used to go to my primary school...He would invite some of us down for tea and i always remember moaning to my mum i was hungry when i got home...We got served jam sandwiches and biscuits for tea LOL...I remember well that me and one of the other girls got invited more often than the others...Mainly because all 3 of us were fascinated by the space race that was on at the time...I loved going there to play because instead of a playhouse he had lunar module playhouse type thing and spacesuits to dress up in LOLOL...Am so glad there are no pics of me from then doing that...Mind you if i had the millions needed i would go be a space tourist on the ISS...See am weird and admit it <ggg> Before holidays abroad became easy to do and popular my village was full of glaswegians at glasgow fair time (2 week trades fortnight)...We also had lots of tourist every summer from all over scotland...Down on the beach there are the 3 kings rocks...The tale goes that underneath each of them is buried a viking king who all died at a big battle just outside cullen...Anyways i could write about the place for ages so here's a couple of links instead :o)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/cullen/cullen/