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140 View of Park Street with an Aberdeen Corporation Bus and the Eastern Star pub visible. The pub occupied the corner of Park Street and East North Street.
The Aberdeen Pub Companion (1975) states that it was built in 1890 and that James Hill was the first licensee. It was familiarly known as Jimmy Hill's and was a popular local pub. It was demolished around 1960 to make way for the large roundabout at the foot of the Beach Boulevard.
(Many thanks to local historian A. G. Duthie for getting in touch and identifying the pub.) Stables of Alexander Nicol, coal merchants
1038 Stables of Alexander Nicol, coal merchants, Cults, behind the smiddy. Stables of Alexander Nicol, coal merchant
1043 The stables of Alexander Nicol, coal merchant, Cults, behind the smiddy. Interior of the David Welch Winter Gardens
1228 The Winter Gardens was renamed the David Welch Winter Gardens in 2002 in memoriam of one of the most influential parks directors in Aberdeen. David Welch is credited with transforming the city's parks and gardens during the 22 years he held this position. Alexander Nicol
2055 A George Washington Wilson portrait of Alexander Nicol. He served as Provost of Aberdeen from 1866 to 1869. Stop 6: Annie Inglis MBE (1922-2010), Aberdeen Arts Centre, Catherine Hollingsworth (1904-1999) and Isabella Fyvie Mayo (1843-1914), 31 King Street
2305 Aberdeen's first lady of the theatre Annie Inglis MBE dedicated her life to drama in Aberdeen, founding Aberdeen Arts Centre and inspiring generations to take to the stage. Born Annie Nicol in 1922, Annie studied English at Glasgow University before taking up a career in teaching. She joined the Monklands Rep in the 1940s, perfecting her directing skills which she would use to great effect in Aberdeen where she founded the Attic Theatre Group, an amateur group, which enjoyed an enviable reputation for performance. Over the years Annie founded Aberdeen's Arts Carnival, Texaco Theatre School, and Giz Giz Theatre Project for Youth. When the Arts Centre was threatened by closure in 1998 Annie ran a hugely successful campaign to save it involving many famous theatre actors who had trod the boards there.
Born in 1904 in Brechin and known by local folk as the 'speakin'wifie' Catherine Hollingworth started her teaching career in 1927 and might have remained a drama teacher but for the road traffic accident in 1933 which led her to use her learning to address the injury to her own speech. This ignited a lifelong interest in speech therapy at a time when there were very few speech therapists. While another pioneer of the profession Lional Logue (as dramatised in The King's Speech) was supporting King George VI in London, Catherine was appointed as the first superintendent of Speech & Drama and Speech Therapy in Aberdeen. In 1942 she founded the Children's Theatre, which went on to develop an international reputation. She had the theory that if you allowed children to play only to children, with no adults in the audience, their creativity and imagination would be much greater.
Another woman of culture associated with 31 King Street was Isabella Fyvie Mayo a prolific poet and novelist who wrote under the pen name Edward Garret. Although she was to spend most of her life living in Aberdeen, Isabella was born in London in 1843. She was also a pioneering translator for Tolstoy and became not only his friend but was also friends with Mahatma Gandhi. She became an ethical anarchist, pacifist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist and suffragette campaigner. In 1894 she was elected a member of the Aberdeen School Board, the first woman elected to any public board in Aberdeen and it is in this building that the Aberdeen School Board convened. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 1
2439 Provost Skene's House and St. Nicholas House seen from the Harriet Street Car Park. 28/06/2013. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 2
2440 Junction of St. Nicholas Street, George Street and Upperkirkgate showing vacant land waiting for development. c.1965. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 3
2442 Similar viewpoint to above but showing the St. Nicholas Centre and part of St. Nicholas House prior to demolition. 09/03/2013. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 4
2445 Top of St. Nicholas House just visible from the forecourt to Union Square, Guild Street. 30/09/2012 In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 5
2446 View from a snow covered St. Nicholas Kirk yard with Correction Wynd buildings in the middle distance. 16/01/2013. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 6
2448 Top of tower block visible from the end of the Adelphi. 26/12/2012. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 7
2449 Reflection in Broad Street entrance to Town House. 28/11/2012. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 8
2450 Statue of Robert The Bruce, by Alan Beattie Herriot, with the tower block behind. 16/10/2011. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 9
2451 Provost Skene's House and tower block from the roof of the Flourmill Lane car park. 12/10/2011. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 10
2452 Garden area on front of Provost Skene's House. 13/05/2011. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 11
2453 Provost Skene's House, Roof and Turret, with St. Nicholas tower block as backdrop. 11/05/2011. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 12
2454 View of Upperkirkgate from the second top floor of the tower block. 23/10/2011. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 13
2455 From same position as above but looking up towards Schoolhill. 23/10/2011. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 15
2457 'GIVE WAY' sign at end of Queen Street with tower block silhouette behind. 18/11/2012. In Memoriam St. Nicholas House 1970-2011: 16
2458 Provost Skene's House with cladding on St. Nicholas House, prior to demolition, behind. From Upperkirkgate. 15/10/2013. |