You've all heard the saying and of
course it's quite true. So with that in mind I'll be posting the
occasional photo on this page gleaned from various local sources. I hope
you'll find them of interest. Look carefully - perhaps your ancestors are
among them!
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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the tractor superseded them (1)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)
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)
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 Market
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)
(1) Ref: Or Was It Yesterday? by W A
Mitchell, Aberdeen Journals Ltd, 1947
(2) Ref: Aberdeen Official Handbook
by H Webber, Ed Burrow & Co, 1948
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Aberdeen Castlegate on 'feein' market
day around the end of the 19th century*
