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Does anyone accept the Editors' T-shirt Challenge to write an Entry on Aberdeen, Scotland?

I'm not accepting the Challenge, but if anyone does and is looking for some inspiration, this Entry A280946 is in the Flea Market, ripe for the rescuing.

Aberdeen, or *Aberdon, as it should rightly be, is the town of my birth.
I passed the first 20 years of my life in `the silver city with the golden sands`.When I was a child it was the `Blackpool` of Scotland.People from all over , came to spend there holidays on the beach. Italian immigrant Scots plied there trade in ice-cream and fish and chips. It was almost an unwritten law ,that you be of Italian descent ,to sell either!
Everywhere you go in Aberdeen you are aware of it`s granite origins. At one time Rubislaw Quarry, the biggest quarry in Europe ,supplied the stone. Every fine civic building and every lowly tenement house, was built of the hard glistening stone.
The main activities in Aberdeen were education and fishing. It was reputed to have more educational establishments than any other town in Britain and also more cinemas. There was little else to amuse the Aberdonians on those far off winter nights. It now boasts three cinemas.
Then in the 70s the city was turned on it`s head . Aberdeen became the oil capital and the rich oilmen moved in. Fishing and education took a back seat, oil and entertainment became the major industries.

Anyone interested in the history of Aberdeen should get a copy of Aberdeen 1800 - 200 edited by W. Hamish Fraser and Clive H. Lee

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* The town grew from to villages at the mouths of the Rivers Dee and Don. They were Fitdee ( foot of the Dee ) and Aberdon ( mouth of the don ) local pronounciation brought about Aberdeen ( Eh- bir-deen)

here is the introduction

There is no hiding the fact, that Aberdeen has remained a
bone in the craw of the Gaels ever since they were defeated
at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411, that defeat consigning the
Gaelic languge to the twilight zone of history where it has
languished ever since. Lallans and its dialects, still thrives
as the language of Aberdeen and the Lowland Scots and this divide
between highland and lowland Scots exists today, despite any
propaganda to the contrary. Aberdonians never had any truck
with the Pretender and his followers, not then, not now - Wallace
is Aberdeen's hero . .

- did I tell you about the time I had a tartan
bed - then my father found out !

cheers - langsandy

Headline from an old copy of Aberdeen's "Press & Journal":

Aberdeen Man Found Dead in Pay-as-you-Leave bus!!

Just joking, Aberdonians are very generous really.

How the Grand Canyon was formed : an Aberdeen tourist
lost a nickle down a gopher hole . . . true story

When I was a young lad, living in Aberdeen, there was a massive fire at the Woodbine factory. Thirty thousand people lined the streets outside the factory, sookin` in!


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My Dad said one of the blokes at his sawmill,in Aberdeen, had a terrible accident and lost his left hand. It landed in the sawdust and they couldn`t find it, till he dropped a penny on the floor and the hand came out searching for it.

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