Winter Scenes

Winter Scenes

With the shortage of sunlight and low temperatures winter in Aberdeen can be tough. It can, of course, also be time of wonderful sights and celebrations. This collection of historic photographs shows some familiar Aberdeen locales feeling the chill. And as cold and dark as it gets we can be thankful it's not The Great Snowstorm of 1908 which left the city temporarily isolated and many residents snowed in to their homes. The Aberdeen Daily Journal reported the extremity of the weather on the 30th of December 1908:

"Aberdeen is indeed an Arctic city. Every building is more or less snowed up. Vehicular traffic has been rendered more difficult than ever. Except in one of two of the main thoroughfares, huge wreaths line the streets. In thousands of cases banks of snow of two to four feet in depth have been blown close against house fronts, and the spectacle is probably without parallel in these parts."

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