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Diversion of the River Dee
323 A photograph in Aberdeen Harbour looking east from the Inches (near the later site of Commercial Road).
The image looks across the old course of the River Dee including its spillwater channel towards Old Torry and Balnagask in the distance.
The civil engineering works shown in this photograph are thought to be part of the river diversion, creation of Albert Basin and the associated reclamation of land.
The diversion of the River Dee took place roughly between 1868 and 1873. Footdee From Balnagask
571 A George Washington Wilson image titled Footdee From Balnagask and numbered 139.
It shows Aberdeen Harbour Mouth photographed from the Torry side of the River Dee estuary, with Fittee in the background.
Across the water, the light, single storey building with the battlement style roof is the harbour's old custom house. In 1986 chef Didier Dejean converted this building into the Silver Darling restaurant.
Correspondent Ed Fowler suggests that the temporary structure behind the custom house was used to cast concrete blocks for an extension to the North Pier between 1869-77.
The image is also interesting for showing the industrial buildings around Footdee and Aberdeen Beach before much of its later development.
Futhermore, the tall structure on the far right looks like a taller version of the sewer ventilation shaft known as Scarty's Monument. The structure must have been shortened some time after construction. South Breakwater
625 A 1980s photograph of the South Breakwater of Aberdeen's harbour mouth. The breakwater juts out north from land off Greyhope Road. Aberdeen Harbour entrance
1245 A photograph, from around the 1970s, looking west towards the River Dee and the Tidal Harbour. It was taken from the Balnagask side of the harbour mouth with Skate's Nose Jetty is in the foreground.
An entry on Aberdeenshire Council's Historic Environment Record website indicates that the latter structure was constructed, in its current form, in 1877. River Dee channel
1255 A photograph, taken in around the 1970s, looking west up the River Dee towards Victoria Dock. The image was taken from a grassy area of Greyhope Road in Balnagask.
Mearns Quay, and its siphon house, can be seen on the right and Torry Harbour is on the left of the river. Note the beginning of the oil industry, with its storage tanks, rapidly changing this part of Aberdeen Harbour. The Harbour
1760 An image looking north towards the Tidal Harbour from the Balnagask side of the River Dee.
The image shows the main components of Aberdeen Harbour taking shape; the River Dee, Point Law, Albert Basin and Victoria Dock at the top. Aberdeen from the Blockhouse
1778 View of New Aberdeen from the Blockhouse. Caption reads "Vue de la ville de New Aberdene du cote du Blockhause".
The image is looking north towards Aberdeen from Balnagask. Girdleness Lighthouse
2262 A postcard showing Girdleness Lighthouse in the Bay of Nigg. It was built by Robert Stevenson in 1833. Harbour mouth
3519 An image taken alongside the River Dee, from the shoreline below Balnagask, looking east towards the Harbour mouth.
The photograph depicts three steamboats and five sailboats on their way out to sea. The harbour's North Pier is visible in the background. Harbour mouth
3520 Image taken from the harbour mouth near Greyhope Bay looking north.
Multiple steamboats and sailboats can be seen either on their way in or out of the harbour.
The small lighthouse on the South Breakwater can also be seen prominently in the image. Harbour mouth
3521 An photograph looking east towards the Harbour mouth. Two sailboats are being towed out to sea by a paddle steam tug.
The South Breakwater and its lighthouse can be seen in the background.
Historic Ordnance Survey mapping suggests the conical building that can be seen on Balnagask may have been a watershed. Pocra Quay
3566 A photograph likely taken from Provost Matthews' Quay looking east across the Tidal Harbour to Pocra Quay. Balnagask is visible in the background.
A buoy can be seen floating in the water. A line of steam drifters is shown moored in Pocra Quay's Lower Basin. A paddle tug is moored on the far right. Pocra Quay
3567 This is a photograph taken from the Pocra Quay and looks south. Balnagask is visible in the background.
The photograph depicts berthed steam trawlers, some of which are registered in Aberdeen. Pocra Quay
3568 This is a photograph taken from the Pocra Quay looking south-east across the harbour.
The hill of Balnagask is visible in the background. The image depicts a line of steam drifters, which were primarily used to catch herring.
A number of ships registered in Banff are visible with drifter Winner (BF1805) in the front. It was built in 1905 by William Geddes for John, James and Peter Reid from Portgordon.
Between 1915-1919, during the World War I it was a part of Admiralty Service under the number 3153. It served as a net vessel, which laid out anti-submarine or anti-torpedo nets.
The ship belonged to the Reid family until it was broken up in 1952 and is known as the last Portgordon drifter.
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