North East Scotland

Memories from Eastleigh Nursing Home, Peterculter: Vera Campbell

Eventually, Land Girls were replaced by Italian prisoners of war on the farms and, for the last one and a...

Memories of being a Teenager in Aberdeen during WW2

Ernest says:- I was a fourteen year old when the Hall Russell shipyard at Aberdeen docks was bombed....

VE Day in the Bread Queue, Aberdeen

As a near seven-year-old schoolboy in Aberdeen with a day off from Robert Gordon's College, I was sent...

Language Usage

I was the Key Sergeant in a team consisting of two or three captains, three sergeants and two ATS...

Memories from Eastleigh Nursing Home, Peterculter: Sam Murray

Sam Murray, resident of Eastleigh Nursing Home, Peterculter, Aberdeen: Sam served time as a projectionist...

Lizzie and the doughnuts!!

On the day of the 'AT HOME'in the hotel the final event for the visitors was to be taken up to the...

Hospital (ARI) on D-Day

A little while after I got there an annoucement was made, on the wireless, that we had landed on the...

I Met Churchill

When I reached the age of 17, I travelled to Vickers Armstrong, Broughton, with Wellington Bomber parts. I...

Memories from Eastleigh Nursing Home, Peterculter: Lavina Patterson

Lavina Patterson, age 92, resident of Eastleigh Nursing Home, Peterculter, Aberdeen: Lavina ran the Naafi,...

A Wartime Wedding: Memories of Mrs Kay Hamilton, Aberdeen

We managed to have a small wedding cake and an afternoon buffet for 50 - that was the most number allowed,...

His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen: Memories of Mrs Kay Hamilton

Just before World War 2 began in the September, the Whatmore Repertory Compay had a long season in the...

'Admiral Lord Jellicoe': Trains from Thurso to London

I believe that this was a forces train -steam of course- that ran every night from Thurso to London.Naval...

An Aberdeen Child's New-Year Letter to Her Father, 1946

21.1.46 Dear Daddy, I received your letter and I don't think you had such a good time as me and Mummy...

Mile End First Aid Post, Aberdeen: Memories of Mrs Kay Hamilton

The night the German plane dropped a bomb into Rubislaw Quarry, the ground fairly shook - presumably it had...

HM Services Canteen in the Railway Station, Aberdeen: Memories of Mrs Kay Hamilton

HM Services Canteen in the Railway Station, Aberdeen: Memories of Mrs Kay Hamilton. It was always full of...

An Aberdeen Child's Letter to Her Father: Mrs Jessie Wemyss

Last night, I was at the pictures to see Rita Hayworth in "Tonight And Every Night". I am going a...

Soldiers at Aberdeen Barracks

Soldiers at Aberdeen Barracks...

Bombs dropped on Aberdeen 21 April 1943

Bombs dropped on Aberdeen 21 April 1943...