Aberdeen : Images of Scotland

Aberdeen has, for a long time, been a booming city. In 1840 the population was 63,000 with 12,000 of these souls employed in the textile industry. With the coming of the railway in 1850, the city’s growth as a fishing port was established. Improvements to the harbour to accommodate steam trawlers and the advent of the railway allowed huge quantities of fresh fish to be transported nightly to Billingsgate, in London, and other English markets.

The granite that gives Aberdeen its distinct look is famous the world over and has been exported in huge quantities, while the discovery of both oil and gas in the North Sea have led to Aberdeen becoming the ‘Dallas of the North.’

Today’s Aberdeen is a prosperous, vibrant city and this collection of photographs helps capture a more tranquil past that is gone forever. It is not possible to include everything or everybody, but perhaps it will stir memories in some and for those too young to recall any of the sights and fashions of those bygone days it may give an insight into how things were in times past.