I came across an article from 2009 in the local Peterhead paper, the Buchan Observer, which reported that Peterhead Community Council was investigating development opportunities for the Reform Tower which stands on top of the Meethill overlooking Peterhead Bay. Improved access to the roof, perhaps a camera obscura and a webcam on the top, were among the suggestions being considered at that time.  But not much seems to have come from that proposed scheme in the years since 2009.   It is a shame that you can not get to the top now.  What a view you would have.

But things were always thus.  The observatory proposed for the top was never completed when the tower was first built.   The Tower was erected on the site of an ancient burial mound by local Whig Party supporter, George Mudie , the foundation stone being laid in 1832 to commemorate the passing of the Reform Act in Parliament which meant that Peterhead became a Parliamentary Burgh and along with the Royal Burghs of Banff, Cullen, Elgin, Inverurie and Kintore became part of the Elgin Group, and entitled the area to one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons in London.

The Tower is such a well know landmark of Peterhead, and I have been trying out various view-points to see if I can get a picture suitable for a future Peterhead calendar.   The pictures posted here are all “development opportunities”  too.  None of them is quite right yet

I like this little tree, it adds interest to the foreground, but I think it will book better, later in the year when the leaves are out.

Dogs often appear in the foreground of my pictures!  Unfortunately Lily is facing away in this one.   Try again!  (By the way, can you see the little tree that appeared in the first photograph?  I had to unwind a black rubbish bag twisted round one of the branches before I took the picture.)

Taken from the shore, behind the new prison.   Interesting, but I am not sure it would do for a calendar.

    

I quite like these pictures, with the tower soaring up.   But vertical pictures are no use for a calendar.

While I was up at the tower I took a dramatic panorama picture of Peterhead Bay from Mackenzie Crescent. This is the sort of view you might get from the top of the Tower, over the houses now build on Towerhill which obscure the view from its base.  It looks very strange with the circular distortion.  If you click on the picture it should enlarge to give you a better view.