A short film about Aberdeen Scotland, entitled "The Silver City", early 1950s Travelogue, F554,

A short film produced by Anglo Scottish Pictures Ltd, for the "Films of Scotland Committee" in about 1950-52. This covers many aspects of the town, and local area. Some sections of this film already appear on YT, but I don't think the full version is on YT, so I have posted it up.

[@davebarclay4429]

My mother was from Aberdeen and this film shows the city as I remember it from my childhood when we got the train up from Glasgow (Buchanan Street) to visit the grandparents. I loved Aberdeen but I can hardly bear to visit it nowadays it is such a sad, shabby shadow of its former self.

[@1980Richyboy]

Thank you for posting 😍 lovely video, took me back to times with my grandma who was a proper Aberdonian 😊

[@UnboxingChristianity]

Well...Aberdeenshire is still incredibly majestic! But honestly...Fit happened to Aberdeen!?

[@GCStalker]

Interesting to see the Wallace Tower in it's proper place.

[@BobSmith-pc9he]

Brilliant!!

[@mo_alb9774]

Spent three years in this wonderful city 😍✋

[@capitol7950]

It was a nice place, its a far cry from this now

[@TheMarioManiac]

@Talorc MacAllan I mean the current Scottish government are the ones who gave the least money to Aberdeen only because of the council being a tory/Labour a coalition. Funnily enough the city thrived before the SNP rose to power 🤔

[@elframo]

@@TheMarioManiac absolute bullshit

[@marcy3127]

I was a wee quine living there then.

[@maxustaxus]

Hi, please forgive my stupidness...but what is a quine?

[@low2184]

@@maxustaxus I'm sure you may have googled by now but, Quine, or quene, is used nowadays as a word for girl or young woman. The earliest written record of the word is from 1617, according to the Dictionary of the Scottish Tongue (Had to google myself not one I had ever seen written down maybe it's different verbally? )

[@maxustaxus]

@@low2184 Thanks for letting me know this...it seems quite an expressive word. Now you mention it, I could have just Googled this...must have had a dumb moment.

[@low2184]

@@maxustaxus Oh not at all isn't it more fun to ask people it made me also ask my granny and she mentioned it's more used in a different part of Scotland than where we are and she's only heard it a handfull of times... in short it made me learn something new :'D so thanks

[@goldenmiller7942]

@@maxustaxus Hello. in Aberdeen/shire a girl is a quine or quinie and a boy is a loon or loonie.

[@katewestcottvt]

My Ancestry research revealed Aberdeen as the ancient home of my ancestors, the Earls of Kintore, the Keith's of Dunnottar 😊

[@Matt-mu1mg]

I currently live in Aberdeen, and by god how far its fell. Such a beautiful city underneath is ruined by closed shops, derelict buildings and backwards council policies.

[@malcolmmacnab698]

It looked a lot better back then, no ketamine Kyle's jumping of bridges, army's of tracksuited Poles on George Street, it was the silver city as opposed to the granite, no RGU or north East College Neds, everyone dressed well, a clean city, nice buses and cars, no rubbish modern architecture, no English, everyone spoke Doric, we were a proper country...

[@capitol7950]

The parks were beautiful then and bustling Union St, and to see union St now. Spaces for people council style does not work.

[@lucasreid1187]

Looking at the city now is just depressing

[@clifftonicstudios7469]

I live like this everyday apart from my hidden laptop.

[@zingo2664]

weel weel

[@alfredroyal3473]

As a Glaswegian I can’t understand them. However, it is a form of the Scots language, keep it.

[@Colin32269]

@Aberdeen University was funded by money made from the selling of African slaves by the landowners.When slavery was abolished, slave owners were compensated by the King in British £s per slave.£26s for a man) Many landowners took the money and invested into property/buildings like the University😮

[@malcolmmacnab698]

Who cares every civilization has engaged in slavery. Most slaves had better safer lives than they would have in Africa were tribes slaughtered other tribes. They are not slaves anymore than your average Victorian chimney sweeper or mine child who worked 60 hours a week from 3 years of age