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FRASERBURGH is a large and fairly severe-looking town in the same vein as Peterhead, although its economy still relies on fishing alone. At the northern tip of the town, an eighteenth-century lighthouse protrudes from the top of sixteenth-century Fraserburgh Castle , where the highest wind speeds on mainland Britain were recorded in 1989 (they reached 140mph). The lighthouse was one of the first to be built in Scotland and is now part of the excellent Museum of Scottish Lighthouses (April-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun noon-6pm; Nov-March closes 4pm; £3.50), where you can see a collection of huge lenses and prisms gathered from decommissioned lighthouses, and a display on various members of the famous "Lighthouse" Stevenson family, who designed many of them (including the father and grandfather of author Robert Louis Stevenson). Highlight of the museum is the tour of Kinnaird Head light itself, preserved as it was when the last keeper left in 1991, with its century-old equipment still in perfect working order.