‘appreciated everywhere’
Compiled from the Aberdeen Weekly, first few days of 1900.
Tag: Aberdeen
SEATON PARK
This film is part of a series of films that feature under the title “A rain-faded note pinned upon a gate”: To play this short film please click here or … Continue reading SEATON PARK
The Spey Viaduct
The Spey Viaduct, an iron girder railway bridge near Garmouth. Construction began in 1882. This week, on the 14th of December 2025, a section of the Spey Viaduct collapsed. I … Continue reading The Spey Viaduct
Strathbogie ward
After taking more than two years out of medicine to study Landscape Architecture with the University of Edinburgh, I returned to Aberdeen as a newly married man. After an interview … Continue reading Strathbogie ward
Tall Ships boost for Aberdeen
On the last Saturday of July 2025 we took the train to Aberdeen to see the Tall Ships. We had a wonderful day. The last time we saw the Tall … Continue reading Tall Ships boost for Aberdeen
Diary of a whaling voyage
In the Trove archive ‘the key to Scotland’s past‘ is a diary of a whaling journal. Trove provides this introduction to the diary: ‘Whaling was very important in the 18C … Continue reading Diary of a whaling voyage
Thank you Dr Wilson
1986: Peter Gordon, a second year Medical Student, University of Aberdeen. The motto for the university is Initium sapientiae timor Domini [The beginning of wisdom]:
The ‘Almanack’ contains
24 July 1786, Press and Journal: 18 August 1802, Press and Journal: