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Gallery: Archive images of people across the north-east Christmas shopping

1971: Shoppers pack Aberdeen city centre on the last Saturday before Christmas in this picture taken in Union Street opposite Back Wynd
1971: Shoppers pack Aberdeen city centre on the last Saturday before Christmas in this picture taken in Union Street opposite Back Wynd
By Reporter

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.

1979: A young girl eyes up the dolls on display in an Aberdeen shop
Used: EE 13/11/1989; 11/12/2014.
1984: Jean Slessor is helped with her shopping by Powis Academy pupils, from left, Jacqueline Booth, 15, Debbie Barclay, 16, Ruth McKenzie, 15, and Pamela McMillan, 16
The Nova gift centre christmas display. Picture taken 10 November 1989.
1987: Admiring a festive shop window display are Sarah Ewan, 4, and Angela Glennie, 10
1989: Geordie Will, 84, gets a helping hand to get his shopping finished from Asda staff, from left, Karen Strachan, Alison Taylor and Eddie Murray at a special shopping event for senior citizens and disabled folk
1983: Santa listens to some Christmas wishes from a young visitor to the Smurfs’ Cave grotto in Aberdeen’s Arnotts stor
1989: Female Santa Claus Carla Morrocco greets Christmas shoppers at E&M’s on Union Street
1971: Shoppers pack Aberdeen city centre on the last Saturday before Christmas in this picture taken in Union Street opposite Back Wynd
1987: Getting a helping hand from British Home Store staff are Daisy Donaldson, 88, and Elizabeth MacKay, 73
1987: Window dressers Denise Sproston, left, and Karen Presley were on hand to unload mechanical snowmen characters for the Esslemont and Macintosh Christmas display, and to introduce them to Dana Barclay, 4
1984: Senior citizens from Westhill and Skene take a break from their shopping in Union Street to be entertained by clowns Edna McNeil and Wendy Richardson

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