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| ARTICLES RELATED TO quarried | | | |  quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - HistoryAberdeen grew up as two separate burghs - Old Aberdeen at the mouth of the Don and New Aberdeen, a fishing and trading settlement where the Denburn entered the Dee estuary. The earliest charter was granted by King William the Lion about 1179, confirming the corporate rights granted by David I. The city received other royal charters later. In 1319, the Great Charter of Robert the Bruce transformed Aberdeen into a property owning and financially independent community. Bruce had a high regard for the citizens of Aberdeen who had sheltered him i ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - History |
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| | | | | quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Culture The city is blessed with amenities which cover a wide range of cultural activities and boasts a selection of museums. The Aberdeen Art Gallery houses a collection of Impressionist, Victorian, Scottish and 20th Century British paintings as well as collections of silver and glass. It also includes The Alexander Macdonald Bequest, a collection of late 19th century works donated by the museum's first benefactor and a constantly changing collection of contemporary wo ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Culture |
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| | | | | quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces Duthie Park 50 acres (202,000 m²)), situated on Riverside Drive, was named after and gifted to the city by Miss Elizabeth Crombie Duthie of Ruthrieston in 1881 and opened by Princess Beatrice on 27 September 1883. It occupies an excellent site on the north bank of the Dee and includes extensive gardens, a rose hill, boating pond, bandstand, and play area as well as the David Welch Winter Gardens. First opened in 1899, the Winter Gardens were rebuilt in 1970 following storm damage and extended. They are Europe's largest indoo ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces |
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| | | | | quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Sport Aberdeen Football Club was founded in 1903. Its major success was winning the European Cup Winners Cup in 1983 and three League Championships between 1980 and 1986, under the current Manchester United F.C. manager Alex Ferguson. The club's stadium is Pittodrie which holds the distinction of being Britain's first all-seater stadium.
Aberdeen F.C. holds the distinction of being the last team to have won the Scottish Premier League ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Sport |
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| | | | | quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Harbour Aberdeen Harbour is the principal commercial port in northern Scotland and an international port for general cargo, roll-on/roll-off and container traffic.
Originally, the defective harbour, with a shallow sand and gravel bar at its entrance, retarded the trade of Aberdeen, but under various acts since 1773 it was greatly deepened. The north pier, built partly by John Smeaton 1775-1781, and partly by Thomas Telford 1810-1815, extends nearly 3,000 ft (1000 m) into the North Sea and raised the bar. A wet dock of 29 acres (117,000 m²) a ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Harbour |
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| | | | | quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Bridges The Dee is crossed by a number of bridges, from west to east:
Bridge of Dee
King George VI Bridge
Railway bridge
Wellington Suspension Bridge
Queen Elizabeth II Bridge
Victoria Bridge
Until 1832, the only access to the city from the south was the Bridge of Dee. It consists of seven semicircular ribbed arches, is about 30 ft (10 m) high, and was built early in the 16th century by Bishops Elphinstone and Dunbar. It was nearly all rebuilt 1718-1723, and in 1842 was widened ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Bridges |
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| | | | | quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Statues Adjacent to Union Terrace Gardens stands a colossal bronze statue of William Wallace, by W. G. Stevenson. Also nearby these same gardens are a bronze statue of Robert Burns and Charles Marochetti's seated figure of Prince Albert.
In front of Robert Gordon's College is the bronze statue, by T. S. Burnett, of General Gordon. At the head of Queen's Road stands the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, erected in 1893 by the royal tradesmen of the city. Near the Cross stands the granite statue o ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Statues |
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| | | | | quarried: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Transport There are four main roads serving the city;
A90 The main arterial route into the city from the South, linking Aberdeen to Edinburgh, Dundee and Perth.
A96 Links to Elgin and Inverness and the North West.
A93 The main route to the West, heading towards Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms.
A92 The original southerly road to Aberdeen prior to the building of the A90, now used as a tourist route, connecting the towns of Montrose, Arbroath ...
See also:Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Coat of Arms and Motto, Aberdeen - History, Aberdeen - Background, Aberdeen - Art and architecture, Aberdeen - Churches, Aberdeen - Education, Aberdeen - Culture, Aberdeen - Parks and open spaces, Aberdeen - Statues, Aberdeen - Bridges, Aberdeen - Harbour, Aberdeen - Industry, Aberdeen - Population, Aberdeen - Sport, Aberdeen - Transport, Aberdeen - Twinned cities worldwide Read more here: » Aberdeen: Encyclopedia II - Aberdeen - Transport |
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