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Aberdeen Fish Market
2 Aberdeen Fish Market prior to the building of the covered market in 1889. Steam trawling for white fish was introduced into Aberdeen in 1882 and, in a few years, the fleet of vessels grew to number several hundred and a flourishing new industry was added to the port. Fishwives
3 Fishwives gutting herring in a yard at Point Law. c.1900. Behind them are the barrels into which the herring would be packed with salt ready for export. Hall Russell shipbuilders
6 Hall Russell, Ship Builders, Marine Place c. 1950s/60s. Note the main office is off to the right. The entrance at the top of the stairs is to the loft, where scale drawing and templates were drafted. The shipwrights department was on the ground floor to the south of this building.
[Many thanks to Stanley Bruce for providing us with correct details on the building layout.] Guild Street
21 Guild Street, Aberdeen looking down towards the harbour, showing the Tivoli Theatre and Criterion Bar. The bar closed in 2012, but planning permission was granted to convert it to retail premises.
The Tivoli reopened in 2013 after major refurbishment, having been closed for a number of years. Victoria Dock
36 A postcard image showing Aberdeen Harbour. The photograph appears to be looking north west along Victoria Dock. It might have been taken from the swing bridges at the bottom of York Place.
HMS Clyde is faintly visible in the distance and various fishing boats are moored along the quaysides. Fish gutters
47 Crews of fish gutters at work in the open air. The shiploads of barrels full of salted herring are ready for export to the Baltic. Girdleness Lighthouse
49 Engraving of Girdleness Lighthouse, 1840. The lighthouse was built by Robert Stevenson in 1833. Upper Dock
52 A photograph showing many large sailing ships in the Upper Dock of Aberdeen Harbour. This image looks north west towards the junction of Market and Guild Street from Regent Road (near the start of Blaikie's Quay).
The prominent granite building in the background was at the corner of this junction at 62-68 Market Street. It was a warehouse and offices with shops on the ground floor. The site was redeveloped for the office blocks that can be seen today in around the early 1980s. This block may have been demolished at that time.
Prior to the late 19th century continuing development of Market Street and the creation of Provost Jamieson's Quay, the south side of the Upper Dock was the site of various ship building yards, with timber yards behind.
The ship shown in front of the building is the City of Aberdeen. It was built in 1862 by John Duthie, Sons & Co. for the China trade. It was altered to barque rigging in 1877 and this be the period of this photograph. The ship has an entry on the Aberdeen Built Ships website here. Weighhouse, Regent Quay
111 This building stood on the site now occupied by the Harbour Offices on Regent Quay and was erected in 1634. It was demolished in 1883. Dues were levied there, for the weighing and packing of goods. Bon Accord Crescent
135 Isometrical view of Bon Accord Crescent - This perspective drawing shows the gently curving terrace of 19 identical two-storey houses, with basement and attic, designed by Archibald Simpson in the 1820s for the Corporation of Tailors. In 1823, the "Aberdeen Journal" carried an advertisement for building areas to feu. The houses were to be laid out on what had previously been garden ground and the advert boasts "No situation, immediately in the vicinity of Aberdeen, possesses so completely the advantages of free air and fine exposure". The properties overlook the hollow once occupied by the Howe Burn and the area has now been converted into landscaped parkland as part of a conservation area. Houses 3-17 have a curved frontage, while numbers 1 and 2, and 18 and 19 have straight frontages. However, even by the 1950s, most of the houses were being, and still are, used as offices. Woolmanhill looking towards Schoolhill
148 Photograph of Woolmanhill taken 1907, looking towards Schoolhill. This image is thought to show the house where Joseph Robertson (1810-1866), the journalist and historian, was born.
For more information on Robertson see the entry about him in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (available online with an active library membership) and an obituary for him can be found in the Aberdeen Journal of 19th December 1866, page 6.
Roberston was mostly likely born at 73 Woolmanhill. He and his family certainly appear to have lived at this address for some time. Robertson is listed at this number in the Aberdeen Directory 1833-34 (D. Chalmers & Co.), page 116. Additionally, a death notice for Robertson's mother, Christian Leslie, features in the Aberdeen Journal of 23rd March 1859, page 5, which gives her address as 73 Woolmanhill.
Exactly which of the shown buildings is Robertson's birthplace, or no. 73, is somewhat unclear. A Press & Journal article on "Historic Woolmanhill" from 6th June 1925, page 5, states "it was in the line of houses that separate Blackfriars Street from Woolmanhill that there was born in 1810 Joseph Robertson, who became the most noted antiquary of his day, the most accomplished that Aberdeen has produced." This would suggest that Robertson's birthplace is one of the buildings on the left.
This image featured in the Evening Express' 'Flashback' feature from 12th January 1985, page 12. The accompany information states "Joseph Robertson, an eminent historian and one time editor of the 'Aberdeen Observer' was born at 37 Woolmanhill - the tall building in the foreground of our picture - in 1810." This slightly vague description could refer to the building on the right of the image or perhaps to the first tall building on the left side of the road. The latter would accord better with other references. Additionally, the buildings on the right were known as Black's Buildings.
The above reference to "37 Woolmanhill" may initially suggest a confusion of 73 Woolmanhill, but the former is not without precedent. In Historical Aberdeen (1905), within an informative chapter on Woolmanhill, G. M. Fraser writes the following on page 149:
"Then hardly less remarkable, either in historical knowledge, or general scholarship, was Dr. Joseph Robertson, whose name appears so frequently in these pages, born in the unpretending house, still standing, No. 37 Woolmanhill. It is strange that in Aberdeen there is no public memorial of this distinguished man."
If 37 Woolmanhill is the correct address, 1950s Ordnance Survey mapping, which includes building numbers, suggests the relevant house may be the one in the centre of this image, of those on left, in the middle distance, just after the building marked as a tea warehouse. Diversion of the River Dee
157 The Dee originally flowed northward from Wellington Bridge close by the railway arches eastwards to the sea. After years of discussion about the development of the harbour, the Aberdeen Harbour Act of 1868 allowed the Harbour Commissioners to divert the river to the south. The first turf was cut by Lord Provost Leslie on 22nd December 1869.
This photograph shows the dam built to allow the excavation of the new channel. Most of the work was carried out by hand with men using picks and shovels. There was no official inauguration of the new channel but the river was following its new course by the beginning of 1873. Newhills Parish Church
174 This picture shows the present Church of Newhills as it would have been at the time of its opening in June 1830.
It was built to replace the old kirk, endowed by George Davidson of Pettens in 1662, the ruins of which can still be seen among the tombstones in the churchyard.
After a decline in membership in the 1940s and 1950s, the church benefited from the building of a private and a council housing estate in its area. Membership of the church and its organisations increased till, in 1978, it was reported to be one of the most vibrant and successful in the Aberdeen Presbytery.
The external appearance of the church is little changed but a huge congregational effort in recent years has resulted in the building of a two-storey extension housing a number of meeting rooms plus toilets and kitchen facilities.
The road seen in this picture is now used by a large numbers of vehicles en route to Kingswells and the west of Aberdeen. Victoria Dock
182 A 20th century postcard image looking north west along Victoria Dock in Aberdeen Harbour. Various trawlers and steamers are shown. A steam paddle tug is towing a steamer in the foreground. Girdleness Lighthouse, Bay of Nigg
187 Postcard of the Girdleness Lighthouse, Bay of Nigg. Architect Robert Stevenson 1833 Victoria Dock
212 An Adelphi Series postcard looking north west along Victoria Dock in Aberdeen Harbour. A steam paddle tug is towing a steamship in the foreground. Albert Quay
226 Looking north west along Albert Quay and Albert Basin.
Sailing smacks, traditional fishing boats, are moored along the quayside. This is before the days of steam trawlers. An array of barrels for the transport of fish can also be seen.
The masts of large sailing ships berthed in Victoria Dock can be seen in the distance. The North Pier
227 A scene from the North Pier, looking across to the South Breakwater in the background. A steam trawler is heading out to sea. Fish Market
228 A photograph showing fish displayed at Aberdeen Harbour's covered Fish Market. This likely shows the market at the junction of Market Street and Albert Quay. Advert for Isdale and McCallum's Soap Powder and Dunn's Boots are visible on the far wall. Albert Basin
232 A photograph taken from Point Law looking west into Albert Basin.
In the foreground can be seen the harbour ferry with passengers onboard crossing from Provost Matthews' Quay, on the right, to the Ferry Office on Ferry Place, on the left of this image.
A steam paddle tug is towing a fishing boat in the background. Victoria Dock
234 A 20th century photograph showing a busy Victoria Dock, looking north west, in Aberdeen Harbour. |