Events during 2025


Next meeting Wednesday 21st May, Westhill Library 5.45pm-7pm 
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Meetings are just an informal chat and anyone is welcome


 

Local History walks and talks on Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
Chairman Jim Fiddes is available to give talks on the following subjects to interested groups. The talks are all profusely illustrated and some can also be done as walks for the more active!


1/ North East granite around the UK and the World
 2/The Granite Men : :the history of the granite industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland up to World War I
3/ The Granite Men : Part 2 : the 20th Century decline
4/ Craigievar Castle and the family who lived in it
5/ The Old Skene Road, through the parish of Skene
6/ Skene House and some of the people who lived in it
7/ Queen's road to Holburn Junction : history and architecture of Aberdeen's West End
8/ Through Old Aberdeen
9/ Through Rosemount and Gilcomston : history and architecture
10/ From Marischal Street to Rosemount Viaduct in Aberdeen
11/ Tommy Scott Sutherland :architect, entrepreneur, character 
12/ The Duthie Park and Ferryhill
​13/ Dunecht House (Lord Lindsay and Lord Cowdrey) and the parish of Echt

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