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Gallery: Royal Observer Corps through the decades

By David Bradley
1948 - The Royal Observer Corp at work
1948 - The Royal Observer Corp at work

The Aberdonian looks back at the work of the Royal Observer Corps in the north-east.

1975 - A ‘bomb position’ is pinpointed in the Aberdeen group operations room by Observer Lt. R. T. Roberts
1975 - Plotting work in progress within the Aberdeen area operations centre
1948 - The Royal Observer Corp at work
1988 - service certificate is presented to Chief Observer Sandy Reid and the ROC Medal to Alan Alexander McWilliam
1975 - Lt. Commander Johnston checks the apparatus used to check a bomb’s position
1989 - Medals for long service for Leading Woman Observer Irena Townend and Chief Observant James Cockie
1987 - Dawn Adams plots the fallout from a simulated nuclear attack
1987 - Group Commandant Gordon Martin, at rear, Crew Officer Carol Allerton and Deputy Group Commandant Ian Snedden
1986 - A double presentation for long service to Observer Lt. Carole Allerton and Observer John Henderson
1961 - Members of the Royal Observer Corps at work in the Control Room in the new operation centre at Quarry Road, Northfield. The centre was officially opened in May 1961
1989 - Long service awards were given to, from left, Gordon Mackie, John Cooper, John Hogg and Dick Milne
1975 - Fifteen feet under the ground, the entrance to an underground monitoring post.
1991 - Lord Provost Robert Robertson and his wife Susan hosted a civic reception for the 29 Aberdeen Group

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