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Stop 4: Health Services for Women and Children - Agnes Thomson (1880-1952) Clementina Esslemont OBE (1864-1958) Fenella Paton (1901-1945) and Mary Esslemont (1891-1984)
2303 The first sick children's hospital on site of former Naval Surgeon's Dr Blaikie surgery on 6-8 Castle Terrace in 1877 extended to take in Castle Brae Chapel. An unsung heroine that worked on this site is Dr Agnes Thomson (nee Baxter) a graduate from Aberdeen University who served as an anaesthetist at the Sick Children's and Maternity Hospitals during the First World War. Agnes Thomson was instrumental in founding the Aberdeen Mother and Baby Home and volunteered her services to the Mother and Child Welfare Association, which was established to address the shockingly high death rate of babies and toddlers in the east end of Aberdeen.
Throughout her life, Clementina Esslemont OBE was a champion of liberal ideas and good causes and well known for her no-nonsense approach to social service provision. One of her principal achievements was the foundation of the Aberdeen Mother and Child Welfare Association in 1909, which played an important role in social service and public health provision in the City of Aberdeen until the creation of the Public Health Department in 1949. She was also involved in the establishment of a model block of tenements on the Spital, Aberdeen, in the formation of Aberdeen Lads' Club, St Katherine's Club, and the nursery school movement.
Dr Mary Esslemont, one of Clementina Esslemont's daughters, worked as a Gynaecologist at the hospital. Mary did much to improve the care and wellbeing for mothers and babies with her determination and hard work. As well as being the Gynaecologist she also ran prenatal and family planning clinics. Mary was an advocate of women's rights, health education and family planning. She was the first female president of the Student University Council and the first woman to be president of Aberdeen Liberal Association in 1954. Awarded the CBE in 1955, Aberdeen City Council bestowed the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen in 1981.
Aberdeen has also led the way in family planning with a remarkable woman at the forefront of fertility control. Pioneer Fenella Paton opened Aberdeen's first family planning clinic in 1926 at Gerrard street. The clinic, the first of its kind in Scotland, moved to new premises in Castle Street in 1948. But prior to these clinics and innovations in family planning there were large families and mothers that needed to go out to work and at our next stop an initiative was put in place to help these working women.
Memories:
Norma Michie speaking about Mary Esslemont
Audrey's memories of the Family Planning Clinic
Denise's memory of the Family Planning Clinic
Heather's memories of Ina Lawrence and the Children's Hospital
Alma Duncan's memories of Cocky Hunters 
Aberdeen Women's Alliance: Memories of Cocky Hunters
2351 Alma Duncan's memories of Aberdeen shop, Cocky Hunters. 
Executive of Trades Council, 1939
2404 A collection of portraits of the Executive of Trades Council taken from William Diack's History of the Trades Council and the Trade Union Movement in Aberdeen (1939).
Top Row - James Hunter, Bakers ; Burnett Gordon, Shop Assistants ; David Roger, Unemployed Association ; Andrew Gray, Unemployed Association.
Second Row - Alexander Brown, N.U.G.M.W ; Robert A. R. Fraser, Shop Assistants ; David G. Campbell, Printing, Book-binding and Paperworkers (Vice-President) ; Gilbert W. Duthie, N.U.R.
Third Row - Veda Maitland, Shop Assistants (Assistant Secretary) ; James J. Stewart, N.U.D.A.W. (President) ; William McLean Brown, N.U.D.A.W (Secretary).
Fourth Row - George Munro, Plasterers ; William Walker, A.E.U. ; Margaret McGregor, Printing, Book-Binding and Paperworkers ; Neil Howie, Scottish Painters ; James Milne, A.S.W.
Fifth Row - Alexander T. Lumsden, Vehicle Builders ; William George Ingram, A.S.L.E. & F. ; William K. Park, E.T.U. ; George Miller, Boilermakers. 
The Sick Children's Hospital
2423 Aberdeen's first hospital for children was opened in Castle Terrace in September 1877. The only parts of the old hospital open to the sun and air were the iron balconies at the rear of the building. The hospital moved to Foresterhill in 1929 as an early part of the Joint Hospital Scheme. The building in Castle Terrace was put up for sale and eventually bought in 1938 by Alexander 'Cocky' Hunter.
Correspondent Ed Fowler informs us that the hospital building incorporated the original house at 6 Castle Terrace of Naval Surgeon Dr Patrick Blackie. Dr Blackie used his house for his surgeries and to provided medical services to the local community. The original house is in the central block to the right of the main entrance and shows a break of continuity to the Main Architectural Facade. 
Union Street, Aberdeen
2775 A Davidson Bros. "Real Photographic" Series postcard looking east up Union Street. The image likely dates from the early 20th century. Before the junction with Back Wynd can be seen the Queen's Restaurant at 120 Union Street and R. Hunter, Chemist at 118.
The building at the junction of Union Street and Back Wynd was initially built in 1837 to a design by John Smith. It was the first purpose built home of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen.
Doreathea Bruce, in her history of the Society, explains that they sold the building in 1870 after construction of the the new, James Matthew designed, Advocates' Hall in Concert Court.
The old hall was bought by Lockhart & Salmond, confectioners, and later functioned as a restaurant and as a cinema. Bruce suggests the building became known as Queen's after it was decorated by City Architect John Smith shortly after Victoria's wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.
Her full history of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen can be read in Aberdeen University Review, LVI, no. 195, Spring 1996. 
107-119 Union Street
2801 Robert Hunter (Hunter's Pharmacy), chemist, at 107-109 and part of F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd. at 119 Union Street in 1937. The exposed bridge part of Union Street as Correction Wynd runs underneath can just be seen on the left of the image. 
Victoria Park: Fountain monogram
4434 A photograph of a monogram on the fountain in Victoria Park.
This fountain was constructed using granite from 14 local quarries and was designed in 1878 by John Bridgeford Pirie, an eminent local architect who was the son of a sea captain.
The fountain was presented to the people of Aberdeen in 1881 by the Granite Polishers and Builders of Aberdeen. It was estimated to have cost £500 at the time.
The fountain was initially the idea of John Morgan, one of the most prominent builders in the city. It was designed to showcase the finest work of local granite industry. It was first proposed for a site near Union Terrace, though Victoria Park was eventually selected.
As can be seen in early photographs, the fountain originally had a rockery feature at its base.
The fountain features the monograms of the stonemasons and firms who created it.
The monograms, or names, of the master mason's involved in the creation of the fountain was at one point quite controversial. The report on the installation of the ornament in the Evening Express of 30th April 1881, page 2, includes the following:
"Many may take exception to the appearance of the monograms, and in one or two cases the full names, of the donors carved on the various stones; but that is a comparatively small defect in view of the general excellence of the structure. Numerous are those who have contributed their quota to this gift, and all deserve a share of the credit of its execution and presentation; but it is no more than what is called for to mention Mr John Fyfe as having given some of the most expensive and most artistic portions of the fountain."
An article describing the fountain from the Aberdeen Free Press of 16th March 1881, page 5, lists the names represented on the fountain:
"John Fyfe (Kemnay), John Gibb & Son, J. Mowlem & Co., and A. & F. Manuel; Alexander Milne (builder), Alexander Milne (stonecutter), J. and J. Ross, George Henderson, Alexander Henderson, Edgar Gauld, Pringle & Slessor, Thomas Donaldson, Fordyce & Company, John Ross, Duguid & Wilson, James Mitchell, Peter Murray, James Willox, William Ferguson, Grant and Watt, Peter Bisset & Son, Alexander Leith, Boddie & Wilson, James Wright & Sons, J. and J. Ogg, J. W. Legge, G. & R. Hall, J. Petrie and Co., James Hunter, William Keith, and Adam Mitchell & Company."
This image was taken on 28th February 2024. 
Victoria Park: Fountain monogram
4435 A photograph of a monogram on the fountain in Victoria Park.
This fountain was constructed using granite from 14 local quarries and was designed in 1878 by John Bridgeford Pirie, an eminent local architect who was the son of a sea captain.
The fountain was presented to the people of Aberdeen in 1881 by the Granite Polishers and Builders of Aberdeen. It was estimated to have cost £500 at the time.
The fountain was initially the idea of John Morgan, one of the most prominent builders in the city. It was designed to showcase the finest work of local granite industry. It was first proposed for a site near Union Terrace, though Victoria Park was eventually selected.
As can be seen in early photographs, the fountain originally had a rockery feature at its base.
The fountain features the monograms of the stonemasons and firms who created it.
The monograms, or names, of the master mason's involved in the creation of the fountain was at one point quite controversial. The report on the installation of the ornament in the Evening Express of 30th April 1881, page 2, includes the following:
"Many may take exception to the appearance of the monograms, and in one or two cases the full names, of the donors carved on the various stones; but that is a comparatively small defect in view of the general excellence of the structure. Numerous are those who have contributed their quota to this gift, and all deserve a share of the credit of its execution and presentation; but it is no more than what is called for to mention Mr John Fyfe as having given some of the most expensive and most artistic portions of the fountain."
An article describing the fountain from the Aberdeen Free Press of 16th March 1881, page 5, lists the names represented on the fountain:
"John Fyfe (Kemnay), John Gibb & Son, J. Mowlem & Co., and A. & F. Manuel; Alexander Milne (builder), Alexander Milne (stonecutter), J. and J. Ross, George Henderson, Alexander Henderson, Edgar Gauld, Pringle & Slessor, Thomas Donaldson, Fordyce & Company, John Ross, Duguid & Wilson, James Mitchell, Peter Murray, James Willox, William Ferguson, Grant and Watt, Peter Bisset & Son, Alexander Leith, Boddie & Wilson, James Wright & Sons, J. and J. Ogg, J. W. Legge, G. & R. Hall, J. Petrie and Co., James Hunter, William Keith, and Adam Mitchell & Company."
This monogram may be that of Peter Murray.
This image was taken on 28th February 2024. 
Victoria Park: Fountain monogram
4436 A photograph of a monogram on the fountain in Victoria Park.
This fountain was constructed using granite from 14 local quarries and was designed in 1878 by John Bridgeford Pirie, an eminent local architect who was the son of a sea captain.
The fountain was presented to the people of Aberdeen in 1881 by the Granite Polishers and Builders of Aberdeen. It was estimated to have cost £500 at the time.
The fountain was initially the idea of John Morgan, one of the most prominent builders in the city. It was designed to showcase the finest work of local granite industry. It was first proposed for a site near Union Terrace, though Victoria Park was eventually selected.
As can be seen in early photographs, the fountain originally had a rockery feature at its base.
The fountain features the monograms of the stonemasons and firms who created it.
The monograms, or names, of the master mason's involved in the creation of the fountain was at one point quite controversial. The report on the installation of the ornament in the Evening Express of 30th April 1881, page 2, includes the following:
"Many may take exception to the appearance of the monograms, and in one or two cases the full names, of the donors carved on the various stones; but that is a comparatively small defect in view of the general excellence of the structure. Numerous are those who have contributed their quota to this gift, and all deserve a share of the credit of its execution and presentation; but it is no more than what is called for to mention Mr John Fyfe as having given some of the most expensive and most artistic portions of the fountain."
An article describing the fountain from the Aberdeen Free Press of 16th March 1881, page 5, lists the names represented on the fountain:
"John Fyfe (Kemnay), John Gibb & Son, J. Mowlem & Co., and A. & F. Manuel; Alexander Milne (builder), Alexander Milne (stonecutter), J. and J. Ross, George Henderson, Alexander Henderson, Edgar Gauld, Pringle & Slessor, Thomas Donaldson, Fordyce & Company, John Ross, Duguid & Wilson, James Mitchell, Peter Murray, James Willox, William Ferguson, Grant and Watt, Peter Bisset & Son, Alexander Leith, Boddie & Wilson, James Wright & Sons, J. and J. Ogg, J. W. Legge, G. & R. Hall, J. Petrie and Co., James Hunter, William Keith, and Adam Mitchell & Company."
This image was taken on 28th February 2024. |
