Aberdeen has replaced over the decades, but one thing remains the same: the sense of the spirit of the net in its neighborhoods and suburbs.
Join us as we take a look at the archives at memorable moments, from a herd of 1980s celebrities who left Dyce to a demolition task on Broad Street.
The driving force of the train at Ferryhill’s Angus Cameron depot shows the Flying Scotsman to young exercise enthusiasts in 1981.
Dairy employee Graham Singer briefed Norco Dairy in Berryden on a component of the production procedure to elementary school 6 students at Smithfield Elementary School in 1988. The other young people were doing a milk and dairy homework assignment with instructor Eileen Thomson, left-back.
Bash Street Kids singer Brian Crombie participated in the band’s 1979 Queen’s Links concert.
A 1980s television personalities organization is preparing to leave Dyce for a day in the hills. Led through ITN news host Sandy Gall, rector of the University of Aberdeen, hounds Anna Ford and Alastair Burnett boarded a Bristow helicopter and departed for the Cairngorms. Pop singer BA Robertson and Selina Scott of Grampian TV were also present, all able to sign up for a 20-mile sponsored trek through the Ghru Lairig. Cairngorms.
Mannofield Mall was at the forefront of retail when it opened in 1965. The new shops, with parking, were meant to attract consumers from subdivisions in Airyhall and along North Deeside Road.
Summerhill Academy scholars spent the summer of 1971 rebuilding this former Austin 10, 1932 before auctioning it at the school’s Wild West Fair. The car, nicknamed Salome, is photographed with some of the academics who restored it. At the helm is Professor Duncan Fraser.
Grandholm Mills was one of the country’s leading textile manufacturers and is present here in the 1930s.
Costumes from around the world were displayed on the terrace above the duck pond at Johnston Gardens while a dozen members of the Aberdeen Opera Company rehearsed outdoors for an upcoming demonstration in 1985.
Diddy Diddymen of the Youth Section of the Children’s Brigade performed at John Knox Church Hall in Mounthooly in 1978.
An employee holds his head in his hands as a component of a construction that was being demolished on Broad Street in 1964 falls on the road. The stones and masonry had to collapse in the parking lot.
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