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Gallery: Out and about Christmas shopping

1996: Shop till you drop the hectic scene outside the St Nicholas Centre in Aberdeen yesterday.
1996: Shop till you drop the hectic scene outside the St Nicholas Centre in Aberdeen yesterday.
Callum Main By Callum Main

We’ve gone through our archives and dug out these images of the people Christmas shopping in the north-east over the past few decades.

1983: Customers load up with festive cheer at Fine Fare, Bridge of Dee.
1996: Street entertainer Sean Burn, from Maverick Productions, entertains the shoppers in Aberdeen yesterday.
1994: Walk tall Scaramouch Theatre members Niki McCretton and Wrigg Campbell entertained Union Street shoppers yesterday when they donned stilts and police uniforms.
1991: Unlikely lads: offshore worker Kevin Stewart, (left), has made a Christmas shopping list this year. Salesman Steve Ross-Munro, (right), can't be bothered with Christmas this year.
1973: The Christmas Crush at Marks and Spencer's store in Aberdeen today
1962: Christmas shopping spree in Aberdeen.
1971: Mrs Elvira Hay, 21 Catto Crescent, Cove Bay, who won £250 in the Fix-the-Bail competition on a Green Final coupon and a shopping spree at Fine Fare supermarket, Bridge of Dee, races through the store with her haul and her £250 cheque.
1962: Housewives should be awarded the budget-beaters' medal - they are always on the alert for the best buy and usually achieve wonders. This is a scene in George Street, Aberdeen.
1995: Only 100 shopping days to go to Christmas but the stores are already getting ready for the annual spending spree.
1996: Christmas decorations and Christmas trees to cheer up shoppers.
1995: walkabout clown Sean Burn (28), from Aberdeen, entertains shoppers on the busy first day of the Granite City's pedestrianisation of Union Street each Sunday until Christmas.
1994: Bon Accord Centre. Christmas
1993: Shoppers cross Schoolhill between the Bon Accord Centre and St Nicholas Centre.
1986: On a late night shopping spree, Mrs Mary Littlejohn (92), a resident of Hanover Street sheltered housing complex, Inverurie, arrives at Marks & Spencer, on the Llanbryde Thursday Club mini bus.
1995: Shoppers get in tune with the festive season at Aberdeen's Bon Accord Centre yesterday during a Christmas carol concert. The mood music was provided by barbershop singing aces the Sweet Adelines, the Salvation Army and St Joseph's school choir.
1995: Bon Accord Centre. Christmas
1996: Shop till you drop the hectic scene outside the St Nicholas Centre in Aberdeen yesterday.

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