1900's

1900's

1901	Census of Gardenstown and Crovie. Crovie Number of houses = 66 Population = 300 Gardenstown Number of houses = 170 Population = 1200 No more houses will be built until the building of council houses in 1934.
1906	The steam ship "Vigilant", carrying coal from Amble, Sunderland to Inverness, is cast ashore at Crovie on 11 February 1906.
	On the 12 March, the first sea wall at the New Ground, Gardenstown was destroyed in a terrible storm. It had only been standing 20 years.
1913	Work begins to enlarge Gardenstown harbour. A narrow guage railway is laid to carry stones along the beach from near the point of Mohr Head to beneath the Old Church at St John's Well. Another line was laid from the west side of Crovie, around the Sneuk and along the New Ground to a stone crushing plant at the harbour. Children often hitched a ride in the empty carriages going from the harbour back round the Sneuk.

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