This post is about Shiprow Tavern, Aberdeen. I do not recall it. However I do recall this multi-storey carpark:
When I was in training in psychiatry, the Consultant I was working for, took me along with him to an interview of an individual who was facing a hearing in Aberdeen Sheriff Court. The consultant parked his car in this multi-storey car park.
Aberdeen Evening Express, 11 August 1995:
This is a sketch of the Union Free Church, Shiprow:
This 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map shows the location of the church with steps down to it from Shiprow:
The church could seat 1000 people:
Aberdeen Press and Journal, 20 January 1932:
In this old aerial photograph you can see the Union Free Church/Shiprow Tavern:
Living memory records that those who lived in Shiprow were sometimes referred to as “Shiprow shiters“.
Further historical material: Reverend A. M. Bannatyne, Minister for Union Free Church, Shiprow:cornh
Press and Journal, 7 March 1885:
