A photograph looking south east along Oldmeldrum Road in Bucksburn towards Auchmill Road.

The three-storey building visible on the left was built by the Northern Co-operative Company and opened in 1886. An article about the inspection of the new building, providing much detail about it, can be read in the Aberdeen Journal of 9th August 1886, page 4.

The building cost a total of £2,000 to construct and was designed by architects Messrs. William Henderson & Sons.

At the building's opening, on the ground floor was a grocer, butcher and draper. There was also a boot and shoe department accessed through the latter. The second floor housed tailor and dressmaker saloons, which were flanked by cutting and fitting-on rooms. Workshops occupied the third floor.

The Northern Co-operative Company had been in operation for 25 years at the time of the building's opening. Bucksburn, or Buxburn as it was then known, was the first district outside of Aberdeen in which the company had built premises.

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