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Many trips aboard both ferries. I think the st Clair is still in operation somewhere in India. Under a different name and company so might be hard to trace now but definitely was 5 years or so ago

My great uncle served in WW1, he was not called up for WW2 so he worked as a trawlerman, they were allowed to fish 15 miles outside Aberdeen harbour. When the Luftwaffe bombers came over the trawler to raid Aberdeen he manned a Lewis gun and shot down a Heinkel bomber and saved it's crew of 5 men. He went home that night to Urquahart Road that had a direct hit. He got the George medal from the King, I've held that medal.

Kittybrewster had a railway station now disused. Near Cattofield Street. Name Catto meaning cows. The freight trains would arrive with cows for sale usually the Cattle Market on Fridays. The Kittybrewster Bar was always busy on Fridays with scores of farmers descending into town. The cows would be paraded from the train across Great Northern Road and would drop their gift from God and adorn the place with shi.... Hence Kittybrewster became known as a Shit Hole

The people made Aberdeen what it was.❤ The life & Soul was Union Street, now it's empty, a shadow of it's former self.😢 Union Street is meant to be the main thoroughfare of Aberdeen. Since ACC closed it for a cold, they will never open it again for all traffic > as it should be! Nothing wrong with the air quality to warrant these measures, except to kill the City & penalty £fine any driver that goes anywhere the Council decide you shouldn't. Now we can't afford to heat our homes, that's bringing back something from 'the past'.

It lovely place to live and visited and need designed shops up there and orkney cocnceil needs to movd from the times

Loved those old. Uses you could jump on and off as they moved .

Amazing what we had in Aberdeen. Shipbuilding, paper mills, the biggest envelope factory in the world, tin can maker, engineering shops exporting all over the globe, large fishing industry, agriculture on the doorstep producing fine foods, University, medical science, even had a church pipe organ manufacturer. An amazing industrial city. All gone now replaced by supermarkets and more supermarkets as the oil industry winds down.

My mum used to work in Pomona cafe in orkney and I used to go there when I was little and we used to lived up there I enjoyed growing up there my childhood good memories

Forus airfield, Stavanger used to have big green hangers. A relic of the Germans.

The Rubber Shop is where I got my school slip on black jimmies for P.E.

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The Rats Cellar!

Comet her home Perth Dundee

We got the day off Cummings Park School.

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Great memories

My mum was a "clippie" on the buses in Aberdeen. Miss you mum❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I lived in Torry never knew there was so much damage in Aberdeen , my mum never spoke about the war

B4 i would say the only time you leave this minky dump of a place is with a needle in your arm or a sti from the many tarts there was and still is now it's a passport or a btl of vodka for the Pols to enter 😂😂

Biggest dump in aberde3n

I was only a 4 years old boy when that happened love that song

I wish Aberdeen still look like that what it looks like now not very nice 😢

What a treasure. Takes me back to my Scottish Daily Express Days in the Granite City.

Very beautiful archive... absolutely amazing pictures 📸... Great respect for honor, dignity, brave and loyality 🪖 BOWS 🕊️ Memory for #Elite ⭐

❤my.mum almost went crazy when she heard and saw this video. Shexwas 14 atvtgevtime. Thanks to all the members of Radio Caroline❤🎉

Did we ever build warships in Aberdeen.

In the 60’s, I can remember cattle being herded from the Central Auction Mart at Kittybrewster, down Leslie Terrace and Holland Street to the City Abattoir which was adjacent to Hutcheon Street. Boy, did the abattoir stink!

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another video spoilt by awful annoying background noise

I was only 4 years old boy back when that happened I went under stand what was happening 🙏

I have lost off good memories as a young child going to the beach I still go there to this day if only can turn back the clock my dad take me to the beach in the lete 1960 and the 1970 I was good to see this video of Aberdeen beach thank you ☀️🙏

Good to see the past I wish we kood got back

The good all day brings back good memories when I was a young child 🙂👍if only we can turn back the clock ⏰

great collection Thank You !!

Why they had to remove the trams ?

Aberdeen with cobble and trams looked so much better, it's depressing nowadays

Nice film, I enjoyed seeing the town as it's meant to be. Pity it's been ruined by silly council ideas & closing Union Street. 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I miss that ship and the Clair

In the days when Union Terrace Gardens was a beautiful area to go ......... before all the druggies and muggers started hanging around there.

Have your seen the monstrosity design cafe next to His Majesty Theatre ?

That brought back memories. I learned to swim at the Beach Baths and went there several times a week. It was so sad when it closed. The "Uptowns" just didn't have the same atmosphere. Many a happy evening my friends and myself spent in Codonas (the carnival) on the Waltzers and other amusements during the school summer holidays. The other place we frequented was Donald's Ice Rink in Spring Gardens. Happy days gone forever. I left Aberdeen almost 30 years ago. My brother who still lives there says I wouldn't recognise it now. From what I've seen from recent pics and videos, Aberdeen has been completely ruined and the latest abomination is the "revamped" Union Terrace Gardens.

Thank you for putting in the effort to show the finest city and the peoples who made it the home it is today 🟥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Absolute disgrace the Market is closed. Great place to land fish. (Sarepta/Connaught ii/Glenugie).Lumpers down the hold,deaf n dumb guy cut your fry. Down to get your pay afterwards with a knife in your pocket in case someone tried to mug you.

My two uncles served in the Gordons during WW2. Arnold was captured at St Valerie and served the rest of his time in a Stalag in Poland and George was killed in Normandy in 1944.

Just like it was when I was growing up in the 50's. Thanks for the memories.

I live here, aren’t I the lucky one!

Just spotted my grandma in the crowd waiting to greet the St Clair when it returned to the harbour. Thanks for the memory.

My brother was a bus driver for Aberdeen Corporation Transport, latterly First Group. He started as a conductor around 1973/74, became a driver and retired 12 years ago around the time you made this film. He kept us amused with some funny stories. One was when he was waiting at the lights at the King Street/East North Street junction, a man walked up to the front of the bus shouted "Bad!!!" then slapped the windscreen before walking away leaving my brother and his passengers somewhat perplexed. There are some very strange people around.

Very interesting thanks. I knew about the bomb in Forbesfield Road but what was the real target as there is nothing there but houses?

I have been to the main Island and Westray, Hoy is next