Some photos of the area around Union street, there is a lot more to a Aberdeen but I didn't have the time to get to see them.Aberdeen is a small city of 200,000 it has a unique look as most of the city is built from the local stone, granite.
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Predictably lovely... I noticed the repurposed churches. I wonder what they're used for now. Looks like one is a nightclub of some sort.
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great tour, don't think i've ever seen any pics of this town before. i also didn't realize how far north it was till i just mapped it. wonder if kurt cobain ever visited there.
Great shots. What an interesting place (save for the pizza hut) with fabulous architecture.
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Predictably lovely... I noticed the repurposed churches. I wonder what they're used for now. Looks like one is a nightclub of some sort.
Well spotted a lot of the protestant churches all over Scotland have been transformed in to pubs,clubs and restaurants as so few people attend church.The catholic churches are doing OK because of the Polish immigrants
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great tour, don't think i've ever seen any pics of this town before. i also didn't realize how far north it was till i just mapped it. wonder if kurt cobain ever visited there.
Aberdeen is almost as far North as Juneau, Alaska, just googled Kurt Cobain didn't know he came from Aberdeen, Washington always thought it was Seattle.
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Nice set of pics. Looks a lot like Edinburgh. Isn't Aberdeen a base for oil workers stationed offshore in the North sea?
Yes I thinks Aberdeen is the centre of Europe's petroleum industry.
Very nice, my great grandfather was born in Aberdeen and immigrated to Calgary in 1905, he died in ww1 and is supposedly buried there in Aberdeenshire(St.Peter's) cemetery, one day I hope to make a pilgrimage.....
Anyhow, I think these are the first photos i've seen of this city -- thanks for sharing.
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