Woolmanhill

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Woolmanhill

This image was digitised from Artistic Aberdeen: A Sketch Book (1932) by W. S. Percy.

The book describes the scene as follows:

"Woolmanhill, with Black's Buildings on the left, the entrance to Schoolhill railway tunnel, the top left of the Denburn Road, Blackfriars Street, with Robert Gordon's College showing beyond. The drawing is done from the roof of His Majesty's Theatre. As the names indicate, the sites of these streets were in the long ago the scenes of many sides of the burgh's life. The Woolmanhill was the wool market, and it has been asserted that here were enacted the famous and lost Miracle Plays for which Aberdeen is noted in earliest British theatrical history."

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W. S. Percy

Aberdeen Local Studies

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