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your vids are brilliant. Where can i see the original old maps.?

top work fellah.!

I believe it was called the Monkey House as in the 1960s it was a meeting point for young couples going on a date, as the fashion was back then with the Beatles a lot of the guys used to hang around there waiting for the dates to show up waring the Beatles Monkey jackets.

Never seem to understand the mindset of the aberdeen Council, absolute idiots back then, and no batter know, they seem obsessed with having to do something, regardless of how stupid it is. They even considered demolishing marshal college??????

Ty I’ve used your videos as information for my fiction novel very grateful

Ty very informative

So glad I came across this ... thanks for all of the production work. I'll stop by the Aberdeen Whisky Shop this November while I search for a dram to raise to Grandpa's memory.

That was fantastic. I know Aberdeen well and found a few new discoveries here, thanks for the work!

Terrible accent

Interesting video but I feel your list of reading is lacking without the works of brilliant local author Norman Adams and his factual books about Aberdeen crime and punishment……blood and granite and hangman’s brae.

Wtf has all the oil and gas money went?

AGreat video , aberdeen is very confusing the way everything has been built ontop of each other Im just wobdering why archways underneath a street is a better way to support it rather than just simply filling it all in

Founded ? Is that another word for built ???🤔

They are beautiful churches don't ever pull down as Glasgow did

Why didn't Provast Skene's House get a mention? I love this building and hated that St Nickolas House dwarfed it, now the idiot council did it again with that stupid office block opposite Marshall College.

The tunnels are more extensive than were led to believe, I was in part of them in the late seventies

The Chamber of Secrets, obviously!

Mon ih Dons min!

there used to be so many picture houses in every city . so many childhood memories of going too the many picture houses around edinburgh area

Ha ha! I just said about the Kirks in the last comment.... Yeah ill watch this. Do the statues! Were they pulled down in the blm riots where every other statue was in the country?

I enjoyed that. I grew up in neighbouring towns and lived there some years. I left 20 years ago. I barely remember any of those street names. Tell you what though, when i lived there i remember being astonished how many kirk steeples you could see in close proximity.... All been converted to bars now as theyd started to back when i lived there. And i made a day of going round all the statues to read the plaques. But im glad im not there. It rains where i am just the same but the buildings are made of yellow stones..much brighter

Thank you again. Agree with you entirely.

Ma hame toon. Born in Charlotte st at the Thomas Walker Hostpital - Brought up in Braitsee. (Broadsea)

Thoroughly enjoyed this! Thank you 🤩

Awesome I got the majority right, guess that I am showing my age lol, and will share with my Facebook group.

I'm an American old Lady, 75. I was so happy to find my connection to Scotland through my Ancestry research. My mum was a Keith, a descendant of the Earls of Kintore, a daughter of Dunnottar 😊I wish I could visit Aberdeen one day...❤

The west end has some beautiful buildings too. By far the most attractive part of the city.

Marichal college is ih worst 🤣🤣

I've watched a few of your videos now great work may I just say thank you for your great effort you put into these videos I've recently done photography and video photography at college and understand the many hours that go into editing alone 🙏🤟 but I was abit disappointed not not see the once famous "Woodend Hospital" Eday road I know some History about it how I believe it one of the oldest ones and did serve during WW2 was interested to see what information you could find out as I just stay 10 mins away from there and the architecture inside it is amazing 👏

Robert Gordon went to work in Poland (the Free City of Gdansk was autonomous) and earned a lot of money there xD ... xD

Very informative, nice video. I well remember being in Sir Laffalots when a brawl broke out (in the 1980s I guess). A proper brawl, with things thrown and men jumping over tables to get at one another. I didn't hang around, I was out that door like a scalded cat. It always wis a ruff place. Should have been called "Laffalot and I'll take the smile aff yer face". Cheers.

Excellent video, thanks for putting it all together. How well I remember the Gaumont cinema on a Saturday morning as a kid, I even went up on the stage and danced there at "half-time" and won a prize. The winner was the one that got the loudest cheers from the audience of children. So I just went "feel". I can see the Jungle Book was on at the cinema at the time of your photo, not so long ago really (feels like yesterday). And then when a late teenager, the odd trip into the Grand Central to see the type of films you wouldn't dare tell your mother you went to see. The biggest challenge was trying to convince the person at the ticket booth you were over 18! Happy days. And then the Majestic. The Council ought to have been shot (am I allowed to say that, haha) for allowing it be knocked down and turned into that carbuncle of an office block on Union Street. I believe it's called the Aurora building now. Aye it's a "horra" alright. I feel old now.

Missed you so much. Best channel in Aberdeen.

The legend is finally back!

Haven't lived anywhere near Aberdeen since 76 so I did NOT do well.

Hi, I love your delivery I'm fae Aberdeen, but I moved 30 years ago, and it's really interesting watching you cut about the streets. What are you filming with as the production is so high quality?

First class 57 out of 60 . Don’t leave it so long for next upload .

Well, I did worse than I expected, only managing 39/60. Maybe not too bad for a millenial? A few notes: - I probably should have gotten 9/10 in round 2, but I chickened out and paid the price, only getting 7. - Provost Ross was my guess for oldest building FWIW - I just so happened to be near the old top note a few weeks back, so I knew that one for sure. Keep up the good work. I have to enjoy aberdeen from wales for the next few years. btw, if you get time, apparently Aberdeen is the site of the first Farmfoods in the UK, but do you happen to know it's original premises?

Another TH-camr fae the Deen! ... We should start a club <3

love your content min! especially appreciate the music :)

Excellent fun. Chuffed I got a reasonable amount right - 7 5 8 6.5 8 8 = 42.5, plus decider, but also kicking myself at some of the ones I got wrong / didn't know. Tolbooth for oldest building, Shoreies instead of harbour board (which I knew!) etc. Answering under pressure and time makes it tougher! I'm claiming 0.5 points for round 4 q 2, as I said 'old footballer' which isn't incorrect.... (I'm also not a fan of the football, so I think it is remarkable I even got that. :) ) Feel free to deduct that half point if you really wish. :D As said, good fun. Thanks.

Are you the voice of the 727 airport bus announcements, not just the accent but the voice is remarkably similar.

So glad you’re back! Can’t wait to watch

Superb 👌

38/60

I always thought Robert was holding up a council tax bill.

not sure if you have any plans to continue making content but it would be interesting to see a video on the tower blocks across the city such as Marsichal Court and Hutcheon Court, as well as a video on the old Richards of Aberdeen building!

I traced my family tree years ago. My mothers family came from the area of Aberdeenshire. Family clan is Duncan(modern spelling). One grandfather was executed in front of his congregation for not holding the King of England higher in respect than Our Saviour, Jesus Christ. He is buried in the graveyard of the church that is still standing.

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Very interesting and well presented. The Episcopal church pronounces the word diocese as (die-oh-sis) Locally represented as the diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney. Evangelical is pronounced (Eve-an-gel-ick-al). Many thanks.