The Wee Book of Aberdeen
Norman Adams

CATEGORY SCOTTISH
PUB DATE MID MAY 2004
ISBN 1 84502 007 3
EXTENT 96 PP.
PRICE £5.99
FORMAT 140 x 140 MM P/B
ILLUSTRATION 50 B/W PHOTOGRAPHS


Famously banned from entering the annual Britain in Bloom competition to give other towns a chance, the Silver City with the Golden Sands is one of the UKs most attractive cities. Along with images of Aberdeens beauty are others chronicling the citys many different facets.

Side by side are images of traditional industries, such as fishing and granite-quarrying, and pictures of ways Aberdonians have found to make a living in modern times. Some of the most memorable images to have defined the city over the decades are included: the open-top bus making its way down Union Street, with the European Cup Winners Cup held proudly aloft, and the now-demolished red-brick swimming baths at the beach in all its odd glory in a city where granite is king. There are two important omissions: Aberdeen on a charity street-collection day not a soul in sight and Aberdeen on a charity house-to-house collection day streets thronged!

For Aberdonians everywhere and anyone who has connections with the city, this is truly a must-have album of the sparkling city that nestles between the River Dee and the River Don.

THE AUTHOR
Author and former journalist Norman Adams has written many novels and non-fiction volumes on both crime and the supernatural, occasionally being called in to investigate alleged hauntings as a member of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research. His Blood and Granite: True Crime from Aberdeen was a bestseller in 2003.