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Gallery: Archive photos of Christmas lights in Aberdeen

By Callum Main
1990: Liz Grant and her sons Malcolm, 4, and Andrew, 6, admire the Christmas lights
1990: Liz Grant and her sons Malcolm, 4, and Andrew, 6, admire the Christmas lights

We’ve gone through our archives and dug out these images from Aberdeen’s Christmas Lights displays over the years.

Do you recognise anyone in this gallery?

1990: The Christmas lights which run the full length of Union Street and much of George Street are always appreciated
1984: A proud moment for Jill Hird as she presses the button to switch on the Christmas lights in Aberdeen – from left, Jill’s mother Linda, Jill’s sister Alison, 11, and Lord Provost Henry Rae
1967: Disappointment reigned following the cancellation of the parade involving 22 floats which was to have marked the switch-on of Aberdeen’s Christmas lights
1974: Margaret Macrae and her three-year-old daughter Laura have an early look at the fancy Christmas lights
1980: With 41 shopping days to go until Christmas, the festive lights have gone up in Aberdeen’s George Street
1978: Shaun, 2, and his grandma Eleanor McPherson see the Christmas decorations in Union Street
1977: Gordon Fraser, 11, pulled the switch that turned on the Christmas lighting display
1983: The sky is lit up over Union Street, Aberdeen, after the city centre Christmas lights were switched on
1982: Helga, 9, a pupil of Aberdeen School for the Deaf, was the lucky youngster who turned on the city’s Christmas light display
1964: The famous Regent Street lights from London (used there in 1963) erected in Aberdeen’s Union Street
1986: Lord Provost Henry Rae and Susan Henderson after she officially switched on the Christmas lights
1978: Aberdeen’s £7,000 Christmas lights in position in Union Street, near Broad Street
1995: Stephanie Keenan, 5, was singer Daniel O’Donnell’s choice of companion to switch on Aberdeen’s Christmas lights
1987: Christmas lights on Union Street in December 1987
1996: Weather-beaten Union Street is all lit up after the official switch-on
1990: Liz Grant and her sons Malcolm, 4, and Andrew, 6, admire the Christmas lights

 

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