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Ploughing using cattle
or horse
was common
before
the tractor
superseded them (1) |
Ploughing by tractor.
Notice the young lad,
long before the days
of
H and S regulations! (1) |
A typical NE harbour
scene of 19th and early
20th
century (1)
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Possibly Aberdeen harbour
but the scene is
typical
of many NE harbours about
the end of 19th century (1) |
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Open air dancing
around the
end of
the 19th
century (1) |
Skene Church and some
of the congregation.
Taken about the
end
of 19th century (1) |
Aberdeen had some very
poor housing even by
early
20th century
standards (1) |
One answer to the shortage
of housing in Aberdeen
after WWII was the 'pre-fab'.
Loved by many these could
still be
found in the 1960's (1) |
View looking down
Marischal
Street,
Aberdeen (2) |
Wallace Tower in
Netherkirkgate, Aberdeen.
Long
since demolished
and rebuilt in Seaton Park (2) |
Looking down King Street
from the junction of
Castle
Street and Union Street,
Aberdeen (2) |
Playing draughts in Union
Terrace Gardens. A
scene
familiar to all Aberdonians
of yesteryear (2) |
Unknown Stonehaven
fishermen of the
1900's (3) |
Unknown Stonehaven
fisherman of the 1900's (4) |
Berryden area of
Aberdeen in 1950's (5) |
Aberdeen's Historic Green
in 1959 (6)
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Union Street, Aberdeen
Looking east early
20th century (7) |
Aberdeen Beach
early 20th century (7) |
Banchory in the
year 1855 (8) |
Martha Grant, the
Banchory-Srachan carrier
of 80 or 90 years ago (8) |
Bomb damage to
Middlefield School,
Aberdeen sustained on
21 Apr 1943 (9) |
Workers clearing debris
on Stafford Street,
Aberdeen,
after a bombing raid
on 21 Apr 1943 (10) |
Low Town, Collieston
(11) |
Cross of the Mearns,
Fettercairn (12) |
Aberdeen Corporation
bus with driver William
Findlay on left (13) |
Inverurie war memorial
circa 1927, the young girl
being the mother of
Carol McIntyre (13) |
Aberlour High Street
looking east (14) |
Four views of the
Aberlour district (15) |
Aberdeen County Food
office staff, 1946 |
Stonehaven fishermen
attending nets, 1936 (17) |
East end of Union Street,
1950's (18) |
East end of Union Street, 1959 (19) |
West end of Union Street,
circa 1900 (20) |
Causewayend junction,
Aberdeen, 1958 (21) |
Roslin Tennis Club members
1938 - photograph taken
in Westburn Park (22) |
Unknown Stonehaven
fisherman gazing out to
sea circa 1900 (23) |
Aberdeen's historic
Green in 1959 (24) |
Junction of Aberdeen's
George Street &
Upperkirkgate in 1978 (25) |
The Palace Hotel, corner
of Union Street and
Bridge Street (26) |
Regent Quay near Mearns
Street June 1950 (27) |
Aberdeen Bathing Station
circa 1900's (28) |
Aberdeen Castlegate
in the 1930's (29) |
George Street, Aberdeen
in 1965 (30) |
Constitution Street,
Aberdeen in 1965 (31) |
Six road roundabout
in 1960 (32) |
Mannofield area in
1966 (33)
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Aberdeen Fish Market
in 1928 (34) |
Aberdeen Joint Railway
Station in 1912 (35) |
Stonehaven in 1948 (36) |
Stonehaven in 1954 (37) |
Aberdeen Harbour
1900's (38) |
Union St before the building
of the Town House in 1871 (39) |
Aberdeen Beach
in the early 1920's (40) |
Hanover Street School
in the early 1900's (41) |
Union Street, Aberdeen,
1937 (42) |
Aberdeen Green
1957 (43) |
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References:
(1) Or Was It Yesterday? by W A
Mitchell, Aberdeen Journals Ltd, 1947
(2) Aberdeen Official Handbook
by H Webber, Ed Burrow & Co, 1948
(3) Evening Express, 25 Aug 2004 (Thanks to Martin Sim for spotting
this photo was printed incorrectly!)
(4) Evening Express, 16 May 2004
(5) Evening Express, 7 Sep 2004
(6) Evening Express, 28 Aug 2004
(7) Mary Petite, California
(8) The Book of Banchory by V J Buchan Watt, Oliver & Boyd, 1947
(9) Evening Express, 23 May 2006
(10) Evening Express, 21 Apr 2003
(11) Family Postcard, date stamped 1956
(12) Family Postcard, date stamped 1960
(13) Carol McIntyre
(14) Family Postcard, date stamped 1959
(15) Family Postcard, date stamped 1958
(16) Evening Express, 17 Jun 2006
(17) Evening Express, date unknown
(18) Evening Express, date unknown
(19) Evening Express, 30 Aug 2004
(20) Evening Express, 7 Oct 2004
(21) Evening Express, 11 Feb 1997
(22) Heather Smith
(23) Evening Express, 10 May 2004
(24) Evening Express, 28 Aug 2004
(25) Evening Express, 11 Feb 2006
(26) Evening Express, 3 Jun 1995
(27) Evening Express, 27 May 1995
(28) Evening Express, 28 Dec 2009
(29) Evening Express, 21 Jan 2005
(30) Evening Express, 25 Feb 1997
(31) Evening Express, 21 Feb 1997
(32) Evening Express, 25 Aug 2011
(33) Evening Express, 6 Feb 2010
(34) Evening Express, 24 Jul 2010
(35) Evening Express, 5 Aug 2009
(36) Evening Express, 17 Jan 2005
(37) Evening Express, 25 Aug 2010
(38) Evening Express, 4 Sep 2004
(39) Evening Express, date unknown
(40) Evening Express, 9 Jul 2011
(41) Evening Express, 15 Aug 2011
(42) Evening Express, 10 Sep 2004
(43) Evening Express, 24 Oct 2006 |
