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Gallery: Views of Aberdeen from the 1960s

By Callum Main
An aerial view looking down on Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen.
An aerial view looking down on Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen.

From Aberdeen’s historic harbour to busy beaches and iconic landmarks, this gallery showcases the best of the Granite City as it was in the 1960s.

Historic houses, parks, markets and Pittodrie all feature in this week’s Aberdonian gallery

An aerial view looking down on Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen.
Cars parked in front of Marischal College on Broad Street, Aberdeen.
Picture taken in 1960.
A ship leaving Aberdeen Harbour taken from Balnagask Golf Course.
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Aberdeen Harbour as seen from Balnagask Golf Course.
Aberdeen Harbour
Aberdeen Harbour
A view of the east end of Union Street, with Castlegate, the Mercat Cross, the Salvation Army Citadel and the sea
New School of Domestic Science in Anderson Drive, Aberdeen.
In 1753 the Governor of Robert Gordon's College comissioned this statue of the founder. The work of a leading sculptor of his time, Roubiliac, it stands above the original entrance to the ''Auld Hoose''.
Alterations and new building Developments at Aberdeen F.C. ground at Pittodrie.
August 1968.
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Alterations and new building developments at Aberdeen F.C. Ground at Pittodrie.
Statue of Robert Gordon to be found at the entrance of Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen.
Used: Scots Mag 8.1968
The entrance to the Robert Gordon College, Aberdeen.
1968
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Entrance hall of Aberdeen Art Gallery.
General scene at the disaster as firemen and helpers get to work on what was a 7 storey building.
Priest Gordon statue at the front of St Peter's School in Nelson Street, Aberdeen.
Kings College, Aberdeen.
Pittodrie Park, Aberdeen.
7 September 1964.
Pittodrie Park, Aberdeen.
An ambulance races out of the City Hospital on the way to another typhoid victim.
Aberdeen beach during Typhoid.
Exterior of Aberdeen Arts Centre
An interior picture of the Art Centre in Aberdeen
The grim gates of Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen, where tomorrow, the execution of Henry John Burnett is due to take place.
Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen, where tomorrow Henry John Burnett is due to be executed.
Children's playground at the beach, Aberdeen.
Provost Ross's House in Shiprow, Aberdeen. Behind is the spire of the Town House Tower.
Scott Skinner memorial in Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen.
View of Union Street with traffic and pedestrians. Gloucester Hotel on left, shops on right.
H. M. Theatre and the Library with Wallace Statue on left.
Aberdeen Harbour, looking towards Regent Quay.
Looking through entrance of St Machar Cathedral towards the famous twin spires.
A view looking down Fore Close towards the river at Old Torry, Aberdeen.

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