Old Photographs Aberdeen Scotland

[@brucemacallan6831]

I like the old pictures of the Torry fishing community.

[@tourscotland]

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[@rayw3294]

My mother was brought up in Fittie. So was her mum and her mum. Brilliant photos, thank you.

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[@Angel100475]

Great photos. I'm a descendant of James Mitchell and John Muil, co-founders of Mitchell and Muil Ltd steam bakery, which was a well-known institution in Aberdeen until the middle of the 20th century. The main building fronted on to Schoolhill and along Harriet Street. The company owned several bakery shops around the city. I have visited the modern Aberdeen and went to the addresses where the old bakeries used to be. I feel a sense of kindship with Aberdeen, knowing that Aberdonian blood runs in my veins.

[@tourscotland]

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[@johngordon1576]

My grandfather was in the Aberdeen Police all of his career and in the 1930s was called as part of the team to investigate a safe blown at Mitchell Muills with all of the bank holiday takings gone. They took one look at the safe and concluded only 4 people in Scotland could have done it and they were all Glaswegians. So they rang up the Glasgow police (Sunday morning) to see who was at home and one was missing, Johnny Ramensky. Knowing there had only been one train that morning to Glasgow, they rang the Perth police and ask them to search the train for Ramensky ...and there he was, with a suitcase full of money. Ramensky went on to be a hero in WWII, parachuted into occupied Europe to blow a Gestapo safe and remove the names of resistance fighters and then became a Scottish folk hero in the 1950s as he kept picking the locks and walking out of Peterhead high security jail !

[@Angel100475]

@@johngordon1576 That's so interesting! I have a distant cousin in Australia who is also a Mitchell descendant, and he mentioned about a theft, and this must be what he was referring to! Mitchell & Muil Ltd was a very high profile company in those days and known all over the northeast of Scotland, so it might have looked like easy pickings for those who wanted to ruin their business.

[@MacMcCaskill]

Only yesterday I was reminiscing on a FB post about "play-pieces" that mine were either butteries or softies from the Mitchell & Muil shop in Rosemount, literally round the corner from where I lived then. For non-Scots, a play-piece is a snack taken to school to eat at playtime (morning break). "Butteries" are a delicacy mainly of NE Scotland - flat rolls, high in butter & fat, originally intended (I believe) for fishermen to take to sea, as the high fat content meant they didn't get stale very quickly. "Softies" are soft morning rolls (buns). I've never heard them called that outside Aberdeen.

[@johngordon1576]

@@MacMcCaskill Both sets of my grandparents lived in Mile End Avenue and when I visited in the 1950s from Elgin (aged 6-10) I could be found, at opening time, (7:30am I think) outside Mitchell & Muills in Mid Stocket Rd with 2/6 waiting to buy a dozen, 'lightly fired' butteries ...nae wonder I wis a wee fattie.

[@redchic]

I love these. Great work.

[@tourscotland]

Glad you like them

[@stevencraig1871]

Life without mobile phones when people had conversations during a tea break at work. Good to see how it was 👍

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[@leemick6806]

Great photos!!! :D

[@nerolsalguod4649]

Good photos. For all I know my greatGrandFather might have been in one of those pictures. He was from Aberdeenshire. A Gordonach, BYDAND!

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[@rickybobby6579]

my great grandfather David A. Mutch moved to Nova Scotia, Canada from Aberdeen , Scotland in the late 1800's, it was neat to be able to see Aberdeen as he saw it

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[@sgy6493]

Fantastic history of Aberdeen there. Always struck by how people looked either wealthy and prosperous or completely and utterly poor!

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[@NicolinaDanielle]

Thank you so much

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[@nigelbarrett4091]

Little has changed by 2019 in Union Grove since I played with Anderson the Chemist,s kids in the mid 1950,s in the back lane. I remember the Michelin van, swimming galas at the uptown baths where my uncle Iain Smith was M.C. for Bologna trophy competitions and the nuns marching the orphan kids from Nazareth House nearby. We stayed at 44 Union Grove until 1957 when my father became 3rd T.S.B. Manager in Stornoway 1957-72. Nigel Barrett

[@tourscotland]

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[@nigelbarrett4091]

I too enjoyed the photos of Aberdeen decades ago and memories came back from my youth- memories of family outings to the Gramps ,the back door in the lane behind 44 Union Grove split by a ww2 German bomb,my dad and his brother George who will be 98 this year sheltering in the famous Torry Anderson shelter ,yes the one with the lucky black cat,my granny and the Christies who were all alive into the late 1960,s but Tullos circle has gone now demolished tenements and the school I taught in 1974 no longer there. Recall meeting Mary Garden 1874-1967 the famous opera singer as a kid in Union Grove resplendent with her pearls and mum taking me to 2 old Orkney ladies for sewing jobs near the ill fated ice rink destroyed in 1940 was it north Anderson drive by a German plane that landed on it with 33 dead in the harbor area and both pilots the only German ones buried in Dyce and not in a national grave.

[@MacMcCaskill]

@@nigelbarrett4091 My understanding is that the ice rink destroyed by the German place was at the bottom of South Anderson Drive, on the site currently occupied by the Asda store.

[@Pythonaria]

@@nigelbarrett4091 I remember my mother telling me about the German aircraft that was shot down and landed on the ice rink. She watched the dogfight take place, shouting at our pilots "Shoot him down, shoot him down". She was with her sister-in-law's mother who was called Granny by everyone. Granny said to her "Now, Jeannie. Remember that is some mother's son". Wise words and my mother was suitably chastened.

[@ronwood7029]

Aberdeen is a great city

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[@GamMngitSssEmoTionaL5953]

Very wonderful pictures of past 🙏 i do some photography i must ask where was you able to find all these photos ? Sure so many are wondering the same , Great video good to see people keeping history of Aberdeen out there for people to see Unlike the Council 🤦‍♂️still can't believe what they done to Union Terrace Gardens

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[@jennyr682]

1.31, guy on horse carriage texting Ha Ha Ha , excellent photos.

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[@katyhanara]

Is there no music?

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