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  • Kiki Dee

    Kiki Dee (Pauline Matthews) was the first female UK singer to sign with Tamla records and so also the first and perhaps only Yorkshire lass to have made it on to the Motown label. This should have signaled the start of a glittering career. Frustratingly Kiki Dee never really made an impact on popular culture until her duet with Elton John in 1976.

    Kiki Dee started her musical career as a 16 year old singing in a local dance band in Bradford in the early 1960s. Moving on to providing backing vocals including for the legendary Dusty Springfield until she signed for Motown in 1963. She released 11 singles on Fontana – non of which had much impact on the popular market. However, several of these songs became firm Northern Soul favourites including “Magic Carpet Ride” and Dee’s stomping cover of the Tami Lynn track “Why Don’t I Run Away From You”.

  • Art Deco

    If there is a favourite, it is art deco

  • Railways

    The craft of the railways

    The effort of the craftsmen of the past are still in evidence today. In some places it is rotting, hidden from sight, unloved and forgotten. While in others it is preserved and celebrated as both our history and a reminder of what is possible.

  • The Granite City

    In the late 1970s Aberdeen became the centre of European oil. The wealth that this brought obscured the beauty that lay in the granite that Aberdeen is built on. Hopefully these photos will give you a sense of what lies deep in our city – craft, engineering, imagination, resilience.

    Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen. The doors above the street are used to load flats onto the stage. First opened in 1872 as Her Majesty’s Theatre the Tivoli was built on the site of an even earlier Theatre.
    The old harbour control tower for Aberdeen harbour. This is where the pilot cutter and harbour movements were controlled from.
    “The bridge” of the old harbour control tower near the entrance of Aberdeen harbour. Right into the 1990s there was still a large fish market and fishing fleet sailing from Aberdeen. Today the harbour is dominated by oil supply vessels.
    These cottages are part of Fittee (Foot Dee). Lying at the mouth of the Dee and the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour this once fishing village is now a popular tourist stop.
    Stamp dispensers, King Street, Aberdeen
    Wrought Iron steps, Banchory high street.
    Sundial on gable. This building is currently the Andrew Begg shoe shop and was built in 1694. The next door building (to the right) is 200 years younger. Though you’d never know it from looking at them.
    19th Central middle European influences represented in Granite. I don’t think there is another building in Aberdeen with the windows framed in pink Peterhead granite rather than the typical grey Rubislaw.
    You’d be forgiven for ignoring the solicitations of the sparkling “Crown Street” sign as you make you’re way down Union Street. But there are some real gems if you’re willing to spare a glance.
    Different centuries, different styles, one granite

  • Nuart

    The green, Aberdeen. SIte of the old covered market.

    NuART

    As the money began to leave Aberdeen, the art started to appear.

    Sometimes in quite surprising places ___.

    Anarchy

    Wall of the Grampian Police/ police Scotland HQ

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    Beautiful photomechanical prints of Cherry Blossom (1887-1897) by Ogawa Kazumasa. Original from The Rijksmuseum.