Wow!! Well done for this video, absolutely fascinating. You can really see where it all went wrong for Aberdeen City with those shopping centres, what a real shame, ripped the heart right out of our city☹️
@jamescadger3302
Жыл бұрын
The good all day brings back good memories when I was a young child 🙂👍if only we can turn back the clock ⏰
@rob6roy
6 жыл бұрын
i used to have a drink in the Wallace Tower,in the late 50,s i miss it all now ive lived in Australia for over 50 years wish i could go back but its too late im afraid ,,but thanks for the memories
@scottchristie6734
3 жыл бұрын
The Wallace Tower still exists just abandoned miles from where it once stood.
@thysville59
3 жыл бұрын
I liked the video very much
@hughwilson4911
4 жыл бұрын
I stayed at 201, above the ABC Bowl. 1957 until 1968. Went to school at the Demonstration round in John Street and spent my pocket money in the Rubber Shop every weekend. That brought back some good memories, thank you.
@DushiQueen2424
3 жыл бұрын
My beautiful City Aberdeen, good music 🎶
@sheilakarlsson5253
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my god what memories this pictures awaken my feet left my birth town in 1957 for love BUT my heart is still there after 63yrs and will be there until I get my wings.My kids have promised that my ashes will be taken home so my heart will atlast feel peace
@derby1884
6 жыл бұрын
I see The Rubber Shop in 1 or 2 of these photos. The only place in Aberdeen that sold Subbuteo accessories (downstairs). That shop was a myriad of wonders. Shops like that have disappeared from our city streets. Here and everywhere else.
@ianmcbride4609
9 жыл бұрын
At 5.38. We had the corner flat on the 2nd floor. Strangely enough, Neither myself or my brother can remember any stink from the 'killin hoose' next door during hot weather. Many folk have told me it used to fairly honk round here in the summer. We were in 445 and my auntie and uncle were in 447. As a child, I never once questioned where the cattle went as we would watch them be herded in and just assumed there was a door at the back that the cattle came out of and went elsewhere. At one point, the door under the pub sign on the left was a toilet that you had to access by going out of the bar and along to the side door. My Grandad was paid a monthly sum by the council for allowing the public to use it as there were no other public toilets nearby. Again, great video James.
@TimeMeddler
4 жыл бұрын
Great memories, thanks. Shopped in the Rubber Shop many times for Subbuteo stuff. Those were the days.
@linjoy9627
7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, The high light of every kids Christmas was a visit to the Rubber Shop and The Toy Bazar. I also remember the John Collier shop with the TV advert "John Collier, John Collier the window to watch" from what I remember it was the only shop that had two mirrors linked in an upside down V shape where you could try doing the Dick Emery impression of putting out one arm and leg and looking in the other mirror it looked like you had both arms and legs out! I caught a glimpse of Harriet Street off Schoolhill, I remember stories of "The Old Breader" where you could buy one day old bakery goods cheap! as well as going to Union Street to Woolworths (Woolies) and buy broken biscuits! In those days we never had much nor a lot of money but we were happy.
@interdave999
7 жыл бұрын
Was it not Harry Worth who did the mirror thing.
@capitol7950
3 жыл бұрын
The toy bazar, shop full of wonderment, all the shelves stocked n things hanging on display.
@alansmith5340
3 жыл бұрын
What a shame that George street was ruined by those horrible shopping centres
@TheCasbertShow
10 жыл бұрын
Wow another blast from the past... I'm loving these wee video's of yours James. :)
@ronwood355
4 жыл бұрын
Had such a lot of character those new shopping centres destroyed Aberdeen
@andrewjohnston2850
3 жыл бұрын
was just thinking that myself Ron
@BltchErica
Жыл бұрын
Aberdeen with cobble and trams looked so much better, it's depressing nowadays
@Monterey2am
10 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely brilliant
@HighTen_Melanie
8 жыл бұрын
Great photographs interesting to see the changes.
@scottchristie6734
3 жыл бұрын
Goodbye Aberdeen's second street
@kd253
4 жыл бұрын
Who else remembers the Silver City chippie on George St & wasn't there a army navy store nearby, (called Rays?) sold all your schoolboy `80's needs.. Adidas mamba, Staypressed troosers etc👍
@capitol7950
3 жыл бұрын
Robert rays, sta prest, Harrington jkts n flight jkts. N Duncan Cafe where scooters inc mods hung out on Saturday afternoons.
@decentbrad666
3 жыл бұрын
I find it quite sad to look back at these photos of a once more prosperous Aberdeen that I never lived in. Seeing this I feel if the St.Nicholas and Bon Accord centres was never built George street would have been a more viable and profitable avenues for business to make a start and a potentially bigger and better nightlife for the city. but I have found with the council they like to squander public money on pointless ventures (closing off parts of union street) instead of making the town a coherent adventure taking inspiration from Edinburgh or Glasgow. now George street I feel is a forgotten part of the town with less and less foot traffic by the day unless your after a sausage roll, a fancy dress costume or a tattoo because people rarely venture past Jhon Lewis sad too say.
@capitol7950
3 жыл бұрын
Aberdeen is a shadow of its former self, online shopping and what you going to do with the time u saved.?
@videostarish
4 жыл бұрын
At 1:11 the shop on the left was Hendersons ironmongery, giving the local saying to anything that was really tough, or hard, was :- "It's hard as Hendersons".
@marcusdavidson4621
3 жыл бұрын
I remember my dad saying it was as hard as hinnersons
@TheHairybaz
3 жыл бұрын
almost in tears watchin this,aberdeen fucked now never to recover!
@RonMcKenzie-bw7iq
8 ай бұрын
The Rubber Shop is where I got my school slip on black jimmies for P.E.
@gunswat
10 жыл бұрын
I remember when the bank was a Burger King
@peterglover5611
3 жыл бұрын
They destroyed George street when they built the shopping centres progress isn't always good
@interdave999
7 жыл бұрын
Well done, James. The Rubber Shop I am searching for was on the corner of George Street and the street running down to the Wallace Tower in the forties. Can't remember the name of that street. Anyone help a senile octogenarian?
@charliechats9910
9 жыл бұрын
Me at 0.35 seconds. Wide lapels and Donegal Tweed Flairs.
@Mike-qh7sh
Жыл бұрын
Why they had to remove the trams ?
@billstratton8262
6 жыл бұрын
Old Aberdeen pubs in George street aberdeen
@stephenmcphail9758
6 жыл бұрын
I remember the toy bazaar was down back wynd,best shop when yer a kid
@flyboardscotland7338
9 жыл бұрын
A brilliant compilation of photos! What building is being constructed at 1:00 I remember very vividly as a young kid the "temporary" wooden enclosed in pedestrian walkways and "tunnels" while the centres were being built. What buildings or streets occupied the sites that Bon accord and St Nicholas centres were built on?
@derby1884
6 жыл бұрын
St.Nicholas House, isn't it? Now also gone!
@aidenstewart1161
6 жыл бұрын
Bon accord centre maybe
@derby1884
6 жыл бұрын
A shame to see the disappearance of all the old department stores. Reid & Pearson and Arnotts in this video alone. Both long gone. Online shopping may be more convenient (is it?) but it's resulted in the decimation of many a British city/town centre.
@shonagriffiths8907
3 жыл бұрын
Esslemont & Macintoshes, Watt & Grants, Chivas deli & restaurant they were really elegant and all gone. Then there was that Chinese restraunt that had a bamboo covered basement bar and fish tanks in the wall with scenes from China in them which would darken and artificial storms would bend the plastic palm trees back and forth and it would rain inside the tanks. It was bizarre even for the seventies.
@derby1884
3 жыл бұрын
@@shonagriffiths8907 I worked 25 years in E&M's! Also drove the lift in Watt & Grant's in my student days. Both great places to work and both sadly missed.
@shonagriffiths8907
3 жыл бұрын
@@derby1884 I lived in Aberdeen from 1972 to 81. It was such a classy city while being down to earth. E&Ms was so elegant and sitting in the restaurant in Watt & Grants being served coffee from silver plated tableware by staff in black and white was my special treat even as a student. I used to go swimming at the fabulous Bon Accord baths now shut. I'll be honest and please don't be offended I went back for a visit.and I was shocked at what they had done to the city. It is maybe better now but the once lovely union street was a disgrace. The council over the years should be shot.
@derby1884
3 жыл бұрын
@@shonagriffiths8907 I quite agree - Aberdeen is a disgrace now considering how much cash the oil industry has brought into the city. There has been no foresight shown and now they are making changes, there are so few shops of note in Union Street that it's too bloomin' late to have any effect. I drove the lift in Watt & Grant as a student in my hols in 1977, 1978 and 1979.....so perhaps I took you up to the third floor once or twice! I hope I was polite to you :-)
@shonagriffiths8907
3 жыл бұрын
@@derby1884 I am sure there is a very good chance you took me up and down in the lift because I avoided the stairs due to getting electric shocks everytime I put a hand on those lovely brass banisters. It didn't seem to bother anyone else. In retrospect it could have been helped by the brushed nylon petticoats I wore at the time. (It was the seventies). When I worked for Shell I saved up and bought a beautiful Astraka faux fur coat in wolf from E&Ms. They altered it slightly for free. It really was a palace of a place. A bit like Jenners in Edinburgh.
@stephenmcphail4291
3 жыл бұрын
Mine this when me and my cousin were nippers,nice1
@ugizzat
8 жыл бұрын
The left two thirds o' the archway @ 5:28 wis fa Jays Surgical Stores wis. The ither third wis the close, that led tae the upper flats an' the the twa cottages, that wis at the back.
@stephenmcphail9758
6 жыл бұрын
What was that building that used to be beside the Norco House for,anyone know
@lesliesimpson8920
6 жыл бұрын
Do you mean the strange pointed roof building that joined on to the large department store? If yes, then it was the Norco house grocery dept.
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