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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the tractor superseded them (1) |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 Health and Safety regulations! (1) |
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A typical NE harbour scene of 19th and early 20th
century (1) |
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) |
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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 Market
Street, Aberdeen (2) |
Wallace Tower in Netherkirkgate, Aberdeen. Long
since demolished and rebuilt in Seaton Park (2) |
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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 (43) |
Unknown Stonehaven fisherman of the 1900's (4) |
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Berryden area of
Aberdeen in 1950's (5) |
Aberdeen's Historic Green
in 1959 (6) |
Union Street, Aberdeen
Looking east early
20th century (7) |
Aberdeen Beach
early 20th century (7) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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
(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 |
