Old Torry Community Centre
description: This is a volunteer run community centre in Old Torry which organises varied activities for local people, and have a collection of artefacts, books, films and photos of Torry and its peoples over many years, so pop in to learn about the history of Torry, its buildings and people as well as its industries.
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date: Early 20th century
type: Museum

Old Town House
description: Remodelled and put to a variety of uses over the years, this historic building has been completely renovated and now acts as a “gateway to the University of Aberdeen” for prospective students. The old police cells on the ground floor remain.
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date: 1788
type: Museum

PDSA
description: The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is a veterinary charity.?The PDSA has been in Aberdeen since the 1950s but has existed nationally since 1917.
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type: Museum

Peacock Visual Arts
description: A registered educational charity supported by Aberdeen City Council and the Scottish Arts Council, Peacocks has the widest range of visual arts production facilities openly available in Scotland.
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type: Museum

Quaker Meeting House
description: It is the only purpose?built Quaker Meeting House still in use in Scotland. It features the plain simplicity of a typical QMH with the Elders' Bench. There are 2 full size photographs of two of the 79 Quaker Tapestries at Kendal on display, one relating to early Quaker history in NE Scotland, both were embroidered by Quakers in Scotland in 1980's.
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date: 1903
type: Museum

Queen Street Church
description: Formerly known as the North Church of St Andrew, this classical revival church, together with the Arts Centre opposite; makes for an extremely grand entrance to Queen Street. It was originally referred to as the Fiddle Kirk when, before the installation of the organ; it had its own orchestra.
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date: 1904
type: Museum

Queen's Cross Church
description: Queen?s Cross Church is one of the best-loved public buildings in Aberdeen. The exterior displays many intricate and unique Victorian architectural features. The interior retains original structural and decorative features. Reconfigured ancillary spaces have been very recently completed to provide more opportunity for community use, including a caf?.
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type: Museum

RGU Faculty of Health and Social Care
description: Forming part of the Garthdee Campus, the building includes cutting edge teaching and learning facilities for Social Care and the advanced technology Human Performance Laboratory. The building contains some fairly dramatic internal spaces.
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date: 2002
type: Museum

Robert Gordon University Sport
description: The latest addition to the remarkable collection of modern architecture at the Garthdee campus sits between the Business School and the Faculty of Health and Social Care (both of which have featured in previous Doors Open Days). The building provides sports facilities for RGU students and the local community. The building incorporates a winter garden through which runs the spine footpath of the campus.
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date: 2005
type: Museum

Robert Gordon's College
description: Robert Gordon's College is a co-educational independent day school for children aged 3-18 years.
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date: 1732
type: Museum

Rosemount Community Centre
description: Rosemount Public School opened on 21 February 1887 and cost around ?8000. Today the building houses a variety of different activities and teams.?
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date: 1887
type: Museum

Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health
description: Over its 100-year history The Rowett has played a key role in shaping the health of the UK. From showing the health benefits of providing free milk to school children to underpinning the rationing system, The Rowett has always been at the forefront of nutrition research. In the new institute building the focus is now on understanding the molecular basis of human health.
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date: 2016
type: Museum

Royal Cornhill Hospital - Art Room
description: Grampian Hospitals Art Trust is an arts organisation which exists to enhance the wellbeing and experience of all who spend time in hospital.
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type: Museum

Rubislaw Church Centre
description: Opened in 1971, Rubislaw Church Centre is a multi-purpose building used extensively by community and church groups.
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date: 1971
type: Museum

Rubislaw Parish Church
description: A 1875 sandstone church of fine Gothic design featuring intricate woodwork and pews of Canadian pitch pine. The church features an original Victorian toilet. The 1890 manual Father Henry Willis organ will be played at intervals throughout the day with lunchtime music from the Society of Recorder Players. Refreshments will be available in the Church Centre on Beaconsfield Place, see entry No.28
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date: 1873-5
type: Museum

Sacred Heart Church
description: Described by Historic Scotland as "Early Provence-Auvergne Romanesque" this is a little piece of the mediterranean in Torry built by the Italian community. Very unusual stonework outside, the interior is dominated by the broad lantern crossing tower. There is a marble baldacchino, and it was intended that the interior generally would be clad in marble. The first World War and the Great Depression ensured this did not happen and the interior remained as bare brickwork (see photograph in the church) until the 1970's when it was plastered.
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date: 1911
type: Museum

Salvation Army Citadel
description: Externally one of Aberdeen’s most prominent landmarks.
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date: 1893-96
type: Museum

Satrosphere Science Centre
description: The Citadel is approaching its 140th anniversary and will be opening its refurbished Worship Hall and Caf? for the day.
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date: 1885
type: Museum

Sheriff Court House
description: Enter by the main Court entrance, 2 doors along from the Town House. Tour with an experienced member of court staff talking about the history of the Court building and what happens in the court room, with an opportunity to explore areas of court 1, court 6 and the cells that are normally off limits to the public. Take pictures, try on gowns and maybe even handcuffs! Suitable for all ages with lots for kids to do
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date: 1867-73
type: Museum

Sir Ian Wood Building
description: The Sir Ian Wood building provides students and staff with state of the art teaching and learning facilities. It accommodates both formal and informal learning and social spaces including the library. This building is also home to the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment. ?
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date: 2012
type: Museum

Society of Advocates in Aberdeen
description: The Society of Advocates in Aberdeen has been in existence for more than four hundred and fifty years. The Society's present building was sited to take advantage of proximity to the new Peddie and Kinnear Sheriff Court House. Unremarkable from the outside, it is the decoration of the interior that is of interest.
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date: 1872
type: Museum

St Andrew's Cathedral
description: The church contains the national memorial to Samuel Seabury, consecrated first Bishop of America in Long Acre, Aberdeen, on 14th November 1784. Roof heraldry depicts the American States and the Jacobite supporters of the Episcopal Church
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date: 1816
type: Museum

St Clement's Church
description: A near contemporary with the North Anderson Drive Mormon Church, St Clement's with its synthetic granite is clearly more home-grown but is not without architectural interest; and it retains its copper roof! The present building replaces an earlier St Clement's, never completed, designed by William Kelly at Regent Quay.?
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date: 1959
type: Museum

St Devenick's Church
description: Cruciform in plan with tower. Timber wagon roof inside. Modern gallery added to accommodate an expanding congregation. Good Wadsworth organ of 1910.
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date: 1902-03
type: Museum

St Fittick's Church
description: Built as a more convenient alternative to Nigg Church as Torry became the main centre of population south of the Dee. The building was never completed.
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date: 1896-99
type: Museum

St James the Less
description: Externally the stump of a tower was the result of the loss of a legacy when the congregation chose to move from the Church of England to the Scottish Episcopal Church. Fine stained glass inside.
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date: 1887
type: Museum

St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
description: Situated at St Johns Place (off Crown Terrace). The north aisle was added in 1898 with the tower being constructed in 1913.
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date: 1849-51
type: Museum

St. Machar's Cathedral
description: Artec Eva scan of Walter Ydil, Canon of St Machar’s Cathedral. The inscription translated from Latin reads ‘Here lies the Honorable man Master Walter Idil, Canon of the Churches of Aberdeen and Brechin, Licentate in Decrees, who gave twenty shillings to the Chaplains serving in the Choir for a Mass to be celebrated on Fridays, who died third July in the year (fourteen hundred and) sixty-eight, on whose soul God have mercy. Amen’
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date: From 1370
type: Museum

St Margaret's in the Gallowgate
description: A feature of his windows and statues is that he often used family likenesses in the faces portrayed. Take your time to look around soaking up the atmosphere left by years of prayer in this place
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date: 1870
type: Museum

St Margaret's School for Girls
description: Set inside an adapted series of granite buildings this school dates from 1846. Take this rare opportunity to tour the buildings and learn about the oldest continuously operating girl's school in Scotland.
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type: Museum

St Mark's Church
description: Basically a parish kirk, given civic prominence by the addition of the giant Corinthian portico, and dome. Interesting stained glass and woodwork inside. Together with the Central Library and His Majesty's Theatre it forms part of the trio of three city landmarks known as Education, Salvation and Damnation.
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date: 1892
type: Museum

St Mary's Cathedral
description: St Mary?s Cathedral is a ?B? listed historic building set in the centre of Aberdeen. It was built in 1860 and houses many interesting features including several stained-glass windows, two large mural paintings on either side of the main sanctuary and recent icon of the Merciful Christ
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date: 1860
type: Museum

St Mary's Chapel
description: The Chapel dates back to circa 1450 and features a stone vaulted ceiling, carved wood of 16th and 17th century, grave slabs, stained glass and other features. Wardens will be available to answer questions
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date: 1438
type: Museum

St Mary's Episcopal Church
description: Known locally as the Tartan Kirkie because of the polychromatic granite and sandstone masonry and the geometric patterns formed by the roofing slates.
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date: 1862-1865
type: Museum

St Ninian's Episcopal Church
description: St Ninian?s was opened in 1936 as a Mission church as outreach from St Andrew?s Cathedral in the growing community of Seaton. The building was refurbished in the mid-1980s. There is a welcoming entrance area and flexible worship space used for community events.
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date: 1936
type: Museum

St Peter's Church
description: The church is hidden away off the Castlegate, from an elegant arched gateway incorporated into an 1843 tenement and a pend leads into the delightful Chapel Court. The façade onto the court dates from Harry Leith’s 1814 extension to the church. St Peter’s was the first Catholic Church to hold high mass after the reformation in Scotland.
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date: 1804
type: Museum

St Peter's Heritage Centre & Heritage Hall
description: There has been a chapel to St Peter on this site since 12C. The 18C church was rectangular in plan and was extended and altered in 1873 and 1895. In 2000 the building became the home of the St Peter's Heritage Trust and houses photographs, artefacts and historical documents relating to the Parish of Peterculter (including the recently acquired Rob Roy statue). The adjacent corrugated 'Iron Kirkie' was moved from Ballater and re-erected here in 1907.
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date: 1779
type: Museum

Sue Ryder Care Village
description: Sue Ryder Dee View Court is a specialist neurological care centre in Kincorth, Aberdeen, caring for people aged 18 and over with life-changing conditions affecting the brain and nervous system. Visitors will receive behind the scenes tours of Scotland?s only purpose-built neurological care centre, and learn more about the work of Sue Ryder in the community.?
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type: Museum

Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare
description: This striking. timber-clad building is designed to maximise natural daylight and ventilation, to reduce solar gain and provide a state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility at the heart of the Foresterhill health campus.
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date: 2009
type: Museum

Synagogue
description: This is a traditional Synagogue serving the Grampian and North East region There is no permanent Rabbi, but the centre still hosts a series of social, cultural and religious events throughout the year. The Synagogue is the cornerstone of spiritual life for many local Jewish and non-Jewish families and friends.
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date: pre-1822
type: Museum

The Anatomy Rooms
description: The site now houses two arts organisations - All In Ideas and Citymoves Dance Agency.? The building has been repurposed as a progressive multi art form, event and studio space, with a focus on experimentation and production. The day will offer an insight into the unique site and the variety of arts being produced in the city.
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date: 1893-1906
type: Museum

The Lodge of Old Aberdeen, No.164
description: At 9 Dunbar Street this was the Coach House for the Powis Estate. The Building contained the livery stable and was also the accommodation for the Coachman until the 1930s when the city council took over the estate, since then has had many uses and in 2004 was taken over by the Masonic Lodge of Old Aberdeen No.164 who previously met in the Old Town House in the High Street Old Aberdeen.?
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date: 1802
type: Museum

The Oil & Gas Technology Centre
description: The Oil & Gas Technology Centre is opening its doors to showcase its state-of-the-art Innovation Hub and give an insight into how the organisation is helping transform the North Sea oil and gas industry. The Centre launched in February 2017 as part of the Aberdeen City Region Deal and is backed by the UK and Scottish Governments. More than 100 exciting projects, delivered in partnership with oil and gas companies, are underway to develop new technologies that will help ensure there is a vibrant industry for generations to come. An incredible 8,000 people have visited the Centre since it opened in February 2017.
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type: Museum

The Roundhouse
description: The old Pilot House is a rare survivor of its type, notable for its octagonal shape and relatively early date. It only ceased to operate as the harbour's Navigational Control Centre with the opening of the new Marine Operations Centre at the North Pier in 2006. This year is the 250th anniversay of the birth of the celebrated engineer Thomas Telford. Telford was involved in the design of two Aberdeen Bridges, the Bridge of Don and Union Bridge. He was also responsible for a scheme of improvements to the harbour, including an extension of the North Pier.
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date: circa 1800 with later additions
type: Museum

The Sir Duncan Rice Library
description: The Special Collections Centre and NHS Grampian Archives will have on display items from their rich and historic archive and printed book collections.
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date: 2011
type: Museum

The Tolbooth
description: The Victorian fa?ade conceals a much older building behind. The Tolbooth was built as the Town?s prison, court house and toll collection point. This year celebrating its 400th anniversary there will be a series of events on throughout the day. ?
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date: 1616
type: Museum

Tillydrone Community Hub
description: Great opportunity to visit the new Community Hub in Tillydrone during the construction phase. The hub will include a range of local services to support the community and suitable space for activities for people of all ages.
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type: Museum

Tivoli Theatre
description: Although not used as a theatre since 1963,?it's subsequent use as a bingo hall left Frank Matcham's 1909 remodelling of the?auditorium largely intact and the backstage completely untouched.
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date: 1872
type: Museum

Torry United Free Church
description: The church itself has a number of features, including the altar table, modelled exactly on that in the church they had previously occupied in Victoria Road.
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date: 1933
type: Museum

Town House
description: The Town House was built to a competition-winning design by the Edinburgh architectural firm of Peddie & Kinnear. Its great tower was for decades the most prominent landmark in the City.
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date: 1867-73
type: Museum

Town House Extension
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date: 1977
type: Museum

Trinity Hall
description: This is the third Trinity Hall to be occupied by the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen. The current building (1967) re-uses the traceried windows of its predecessor but otherwise the architecture is very much of its period. The interior is very dramatic and contains many furnishings and artefacts that were used in all three Halls.
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date: 1964
type: Museum

TS Scylla
description: Located at the quayside, TS Scylla is a series of linked 1930s Nissen huts. The building was originally used by the barrage balloon unit during WW2 before becoming the home of Sea Cadets Aberdeen. The Sea Cadets will be providing short tours of the facilities as well as displays on the history of the building and the Unit, and information on Sea Cadet activities
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date: c. 1932
type: Museum

Tullos School
description: A little-altered example of 1930s modernist architecture and a familiar landmark to everybody arriving in Aberdeen by train from the south. The school displays many of the periods most advanced concepts in educational architecture with an emphasis on fresh air and sunshine.
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date: 1939
type: Museum

Union Street Arches
description: The building of Union Street was a considerable feat of engineering. Union Bridge over the Denburn valley is the largest and most visible of a series of arches that carried the street level above the then existing ground surface. Most of these arches were subsequently hidden by buildings lining the street. Doors Open Day provides the opportunity to enter one of these normally inaccessible spaces to view an exhibition about Union Street.
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date: c 1800
type: Museum

Unitarian Church
description: Unitarian church - place of worship.
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date: 1905
type: Museum

University of Aberdeen: Special Libraries and Archives
description: The Special Collections Centre is the home of the University's historic books and archives.
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type: Museum

University of Aberdeen: Institute of Medical Sciences
description: The University of Aberdeen?s Institute of Medical Sciences accommodates over 400 scientists and research staff.?Stands in the atrium will showcase hands-on science demonstrations and activities. Techfest will also be running family friendly activities. The central atrium, ground floor and second floor labs are open
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date: 1996
type: Museum

University of Aberdeen: King's College Chapel
description: The University was founded in 1495 and the chapel is the oldest surviving building. Inside are the finest surviving pre-Reformation choir stalls and screen in Scotland.
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date: 1500 onward
type: Museum

University of Aberdeen: MacRobert Building
description: Established in 1995 to research and?promote the culture of the North East and North of Scotland, the Elphinstone Institute welcomes all to explore our archives, library, research, videos, recordings, publications and more.
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date: 1967
type: Museum

War Memorial Court
description: By A Marshall Mackenzie and A G R Mackenzie 1923-5. Although everybody knows the quadrant colonnade and lion sculpture on the corner of the Art Gallery few have been into the great, austere War Memorial Court that lies beneath the dome.
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date: 1923-25
type: Museum

Zoology Building Teaching Lab
description: Meet the scientists at the cutting edge of research and see where it all happens, in the University of Aberdeen's research and teaching labs.
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date: 1969
type: Museum

Zoology Museum
description: The Zoology Museum is the only zoological museum in the region and boasts one of the largest collections in Scotland including animals of the world, from protozoa to whales.
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date: 1969
type: Museum

1 High Shore, Banff
description: Dating from around 1676, this old merchant�s house was once where multiple families shared lodgings. A stone spiral staircase takes you up 3 floors to explore, where much of the original decorations can still be seen on the timbers. Almost every room has unusual nooks and crannies and corners opening off, and the house has its own private lookout tower. Only open to the public on Doors Open Days - this is a must see!
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date: 1675
type: Museum

2 Old Castlegate
description: A magnificent category B Listed Georgian townhouse recently completed restrored by the North East Scotland Preservation Trust.
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date: Mid 18th century
type: Museum

4 Old Castlegate
description: Number 4 Old Castlegate is part of a three-storey, category B Listed mid-18th century townhouse. It was abandoned by its former owners in 1988 and rapidly fell into disrepair, suffering massive de-stabilisation and structural damage. Eventually Aberdeenshire Council took possession of the building via a Compulsory Purchase Order and took measures to stabilise it.
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date: mid 18th century
type: Museum

9 Shore Street
description: �This small 'But & Ben' house sat derelict and uninhabited for over half a century. A family outing to Inverallochy and to nearby Maggie's Hoosie so inspired the Thomas-Wright family that they set about a 10 year project to renovate this humble, traditional Scottish building. Keen to respect the conservation area in which 9 Shore Street sits, the external restoration work retains the original low-level roof line, the exposed granite walls, the window positions and the original footprint, as well other key features integral to its history. Having been a working family home for most of its life, with a short spell as a fisherman's store in the late 20th Century, this But & Ben with a half-hoose addition, is now a family home again.The internal renovation drew its inspiration from the history of the building; the open-plan design informing contemporary living. The Thomas-Wrights are eager to gather people's memories and knowledge of the building and its past inhabitants.
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date: 1750
type: Museum

Aberdeenshire Council Museums Service Discovery Centre
description: Aberdeenshire Museums Service HQ (AMS) is the first publicly accessible store for the county?s museum service, and was built with a substantial grant from Heritage Lottery Fund. It is a purpose-built museum storage facility and visitor centre, as well as housing the service?s technical workshops. This state of the art facility includes 810 square metres of environmentally controlled storage space, housing collections ranging from fine art to botanical specimens. The store will be open to visitors for guided tours and an introduction behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum, with the photographic suite, conservation unit, education resources, stores and lots lots more. The guide will have lots of stories to tell about objects, and will let you see just how much goes into caring for collections and making them accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. To book a place please call 01771 622807 between 9am & 4:30pm weekdays
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type: Museum

Aberdeenshire Materials Store
description: A wide range of heritage building materials for sale, including slates, pantiles, chimney pots, ridge tiles, gutters, granite lintels and blocks, sandstone, caithness slabs, lockblock, radiators, roof lights, granite setts, pews and much more!
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type: Museum

Aboyne & Glen Tanar Memorial Hall (Victory Hall)
description: <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> Aboyne & Glen Tanar Memorial Hall, known as the ?Victory Hall?, is set in the heart of the village of Aboyne, Royal Deeside. It is a substantial granite building of character, both inside and out and is an unusually grand war memorial building.??? The building contains stained glass windows and panels bearing the names of those who fell for their country, and on the outside is the inscribed foundation stone. Inside, in the large Main Hall, the roof has decorative open timber purlins and trusses; the massive timbers having come from the forest of Glen Tanar.?? There is a plaque bearing the names of those who served in the Great War and survived.? In the Formaston Room is the Formaston Stone, an ancient Pictish cross slab stone with interlaced carving, a Pictish mirror symbol and Ogham inscription. The Hub ??The Victory Hall is also the Doors Open Days hub this year.? At the hub you will be able to find more information about what to see and do over the weekend.? The hall will also be home to various displays from local historical and interest groups in addition to the Council?s Built Heritage Team, Archaeology, Local History and Archive services. Those confirmed taking part so far are: North East Scotland Preservation Trust? Visit Royal Deeside Mid Deeside Limited Michael Zappert Stained Glass Artist Royal British Legion, Aboyne Branch ? ? Friends of Aboyne Hospital? <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript…
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date: 1920
type: Museum

Aboyne Fire Station
description: Visitors will get tour of station and shown round appliances and equipment. Community Safety stands, with various CS literature and merchandise. Recruitment information will also be available. www.grampianfrs.org.uk
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type: Museum

Aboyne, Huntly Arms Hotel
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date: Early 19th Century
type: Museum

Aboyne, Masonic Lodge
description: 1859, Category B listed. The former church was built in 1859 in the Gothic style and its ecclesiastical use continued after the union of the Established and Free churches in 1929 until 1940 when it was used as a store during the Second World War. From 1946 onwards it has been used as a Masonic Temple. The building also boasts a beautifully restored stained glass window by local artistic, Michael Zappert.
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date: 1859
type: Museum

Aboyne, St Thomas Episcopal Church
description: <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> �Designed for George Coats, cotton thread manufacturer in Paisley, who became Baron of Glentanar, the church is a Category A listed building built in the Gothic style. The design is based on a 13th Century church in Leicestershire. The church is built of Kemnay granite with very high quality fittings. Inside the church the fine timber carving on the organ case and windows is attributed to the William Morris workshop. The aisle windows have 15th to 17th Century fragments of British and Continental glass, depicting heraldry and saints.
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date: 1909
type: Museum

Aboyne-Dinnet Parish Church
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date: 1842
type: Museum

Acorn Centre, West Church - EVENT HUB
description: Come along and visit us at the Hub at the West Church and Acorn Centre Inverurie on the first floor. The Category B listed Church building was altered by raising the floor level to create a caf? and meeting space, whilst retaining the upper gallery which is used both as a place of worship and as an event space for hire. The church has an interesting modern glazed porch extension erected on the main elevation in 2006. We will be on hand throughout the day to answer any queries, give directions and to assist in planning your visits.? In addition there will be displays?from the ?Favorite?buildings in Aberdeenshire Project?, Aberdeenshire Council?s?Archaeology Service, Museums Service,?Built Heritage Team, the North East Scotland?Building Preservation Trust and literacy?charity Books Abroad www.booksabroad.org.uk.
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type: Museum

Alford Heritage Centre
description: The Alford Heritage Centre is housed in the last of the original? Marts (or Auction) buildings to survive in the North East of Scotland. Marts used to exist in and around all centres of agricultural activity throughout the North East and served as the focus of many rural communities. The Alford Heritage Centre is now a visitor centre and museum ? comprising a collection of domestic, agricultural and rural exhibits of regional importance.
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date: Circa 1900
type: Museum

All Saints Episcopal Church, Whiterashes
description: The B listed church was designed by architect James Matthews in 1858 at the commission of Major Ramsay, Laird of Straloch. The building was originally built as both a church and as an estate school. A board school was later built in 1876, since which time, All Saint's has been used only as a church. Major Ramsay's daughter, Mrs Irvine of Drum and Straloch commissioned the 11 stained glass windows and reredos designed by Sir Ninian Comper between 1896 and 1916 installed in the church. Comper was one of the last Scottish Gothic Revival architects, noted for his churches and their furnishings, in particular, stained glass windows. There will be an exhibition on the stained glass windows by Sir Ninian Comper and members of the church will be on hand throughout the day to talk about the building and its contents.
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date: 1858
type: Museum

Arbuthnot House
description: The unfortunate eastern extension, and removal of original glazing bars, has damaged the proportions of this classical granite mansion. The diminutive pediment with roundheaded window poking through the cornice is underscaled for this key site. Good gatepiers and steps lead up to another of those rusticated entrances. Side elevation to Union Street is pedimented with broad windows; and there is a vigorous 3-storey bulbous double-bow front to the north. The excellent interior includes a 2-storey hall with oval gallery and beautiful ironwork. The Arbuthnots, a branch of the Kincardineshire family who arrived in Aberdeenshire in 15C , were prominent in Peterhead from the very first.�
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date: 1805
type: Museum

Arbuthnott House Gardens
description: 17th century, 5 acre walled garden on steep south facing slope, adjacent to Arbuthnott House.?.
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date: 1650
type: Museum

Archaeolink
description: A fine modern building meticulously placed within the Aberdeenshire landscape. Cut into the hill its simple earthen forms echo prehistoric structures and contrast with the spare modernity of the glass and concrete atrium. he centre was officially opened by Time Team's Tony Robinson on 16 June 1997 following several years planning and a total cost of ?4million.
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date: 1993
type: Museum

Auchtavan Township
description: <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> Come and visit the abandoned 18th-19th Century "ferm toun" (farm town) with it's restored cruck farmed cottage. Be prepared for the 2.5 mile (4 km) uphill walk to the site. The settlement of Auchtavan (Gaelic for the field of two kids) is located at the head of Glen Fearder, sitting some 450 metres above sea level and looking across the River Dee to Lochnagar. It is a rare survival of a traditional Highland clachan or fermtoun. Small communities like these were home to countless generations in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. Most of these settlements have disappeared and their houses now merely a scatter of stones but Auchtavan survived and has been restored. You will be able to visit the hingin lum cottage and the horsemill. The 20th century house on …
source: aberdeenshire
date: Late 18th-early 19th century
type: Museum

Back Green
description: The buildings owned by the North East Preservation Trust (NESPT) are situated to the east of the Burn of Durn, which flows into the Moray Firth at Links Bay. The site was originally developed to manufacture thread from flax. The area of “green” was utilised for the bleaching of the flax, the reliable water supply from the burn providing ideal conditions for bleaching. The name “Back Green” probably derives from bleaching green.In the early 19th century the site contained two groups of buildings – the one to the seaward side operated as a rope making business while the manufacture of sails took place within the eastern range, adjacent to the three surviving cottages. The ropeworks fell into decline and has been lost; the former sail making factory and cottages survive. The NESPT are currently carrying out a full options appraisal on the property whilst trying to secure funding for its redevelopment. This is a rare opportunity to have a guided tour by Project Manager Paul Higson, and to learn about the history of Back Green as well as the challenges faced in finding a new use for this unique and important part of Portsoy’s heritage. Please be aware that this is a dilapidated site and stout footwear will be required, hard hats will be provided.
source: aberdeenshire
date: Early 19th Century
type: Museum

Balfluig Castle
description: Built by a cadet of Forbes of Corsindae, Balfluig was burnt by Montrose'e men after the battle of Alford in 1645. Farquharson of Haughton bought the estate in 1753. In the 1920s the estate was sold piecemeal, and in 1967 the present owner bought and restored the ruinous fortalice.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1556
type: Museum

Ballater Fire Station
description: <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> Ballater fire station provides fire cover for the community of Ballater and the surrounding area. Ballater is a retained station and is crewed by local members of the community who are on 24 hour call and respond to a fire call as and when required. The station has one 10 crew appliance and a specialist forestry unit which is used to tackle wildfires and other incidents where an off-road vehicle is beneficial. The station is also trained in water rescue.
source: aberdeenshire
type: Museum

Ballater Masonic Lodge
description: Category C Listed, the Lodge was purpose built in 1896 by local builders William Duguid and Son. Ballater Masonic Lodge is a distinctive building with its fine detail apparent in the unusual 2-stage tower. It proves an unusual aspect in the streetscape within surrounding Victorian villas and sitting next to the Victoria Barracks. It is particularly distinguished by the finely decorated Royal Arch Chapter vault which is, with the exception of Aberdeen, the only vault of its kind in the North-East. The paintings within the vault were completed after WWII, in 1948, by a Mr Davidson, from designs by John Maitland. They represent scenes from the Masonic stories of the Royal Arch. This building replaced the earlier Masonic Lodge of Ballater which had been in Church Square. William Duguid and Sons were local builders who also built the Albert Memorial and Victoria Halls and other local houses. Visitors will be able to enter the Main Hall, view photographs and browse through membership records, minute books all going back over 100 years. Masonic Jewels will also be on display.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1896
type: Museum

Ballater, Glenmuick Parish Church
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source: aberdeenshire
date: 1873-4
type: Museum

Ballogie House and Home Farm
description: <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> An opportunity to take a short walking tour of Ballogie Estates Home Farm and Ballogie House. The impressive Home Farm was constructed in a court-yard plan from pink coursed granite rubble with additions and alterations by Walker and Beattie in the late 19th century.? The current Ballogie House was built in 1982 in a beautiful setting on the site of the former Ballogie House.? The guided tour will commence at the Walled Garden through the farm, taking visitors to the listed Home Farm steading and up to Ballogie House, where visitors can go inside.? The talk will be give visitors information of the history of the estate and the buildings on it and describing the Estate?s current and future development plans.? This will include information on other areas of the estate, such as the development of the nearby former Potarch Hotel site.? ? <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryL…
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1982 and 1832
type: Museum

Banchory Fire Station
description: <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> Banchory Fire Station gave a chance for members of the public to see inside the station, view the equipment and meet station personnel who will be able to explain what the equipment is and what it is used for.
source: aberdeenshire
type: Museum

Bandodle House
description: Bandodle House replaces a 200-year-old single storey croft hosue and is part of a larger scheme of managing 11.5 hectares of farmland to enhance biodiversity. The aim of the project ws to build a healthy, confortable home that left as low an ecological footprint as possible.
source: aberdeenshire
type: Museum

Banff Castle
description: This Georgian building by John Adam, was constructed on part of the site of the original medieval Castle, of which parts of two walls and a good length of the moat can be seen, north of the present building. Built for the Seafield family, it is a classical three storey, five window block with a tall pavilion roof. It was planned as the dower house for Mary, dowager Countess of Findlater, and continued as a private house well into the 20th century. There are flanking two storey pavilions that have been restored, and there are plans to restore the curving link wall to the western pavilion. The porch is a later addition and the cupola over the well was built in 1926. There are interesting interiors, especially on the first floor. The grounds afford spectacular views across Banff Bay. Image (c) www.scran.ac.uk
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1749-52
type: Museum

Banff Methodist Church
description: As it proclaims on its frontage, this was built as a "Wesleyan Methodist Chapel". Since 1932 it has simply been a Methodist Church. It is a stone-built structure in traditional style with a small spire. Unaltered externally, it has been developed inside, while retaining some original features.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1878
type: Museum

Banff Parish Church of Scotland
description: Built in 1789, by Andrew Wilson architect and builder, with the tower added in 1849 by William Robertson. The chancel was added and interior altered in 1929. There is a small chapel at rear of church in 1994. The pulpit, font, communion table and stained glass in the chancel were all gifted in 1929. Other furnishings came from the Trinity & Alvah Church, with which the Church was united in 1994.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1789
type: Museum

Banff Police Station
description: This was built as the Commercial Bank, and banks had to look prosperous and built to last, to persuade people to put their money there, so this has all sorts of elaborate detail, bracketed architraves and a dentilled cornice. Some of the inside surviving detail is also fine. The strong-room came in handy for cells.
source: aberdeenshire
date: Mid 1860s
type: Museum

Banff Primary School (Old Academy)
description: This was originally known as Wilson?s Academy, and combined the school with the predecessor of the present Banff Museum. This is a fine classical building, with horizontal lines. It is fronted by a wide pedimented portico of six Ionic columns. The end pavilions have shallow twinned Corinthian pilasters. The building is now refitted as part of the modern Primary School.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1837
type: Museum

Banff Sheriff Court House
description: This has a majestic classical Renaissance frontage, with Corinthian portico and balustraded viewing platform above, from which, till recently, proclamations were made.? The building has all the dignity of the law.? On this site was the house of Lady Gight, whose grandson, the later Lord Byron, used to visit her here.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1870-71
type: Museum

Banff Town and County Club
description: 18th century U-plan town house, with distinctive 3-bay main frontage (facing west) with Venetian first floor window, and featuring a well-preserved, high ceilinged Drawing Room. The original house was built and occupied by George Robinson (1743 - 1827), a major player in the linen business, and a long-serving Provost of Banff.?
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1772
type: Museum

Benholm Kirk
description: This site has a long history of religious use. Little is known of the early churches; the first substantial building was erected in the 13th century. The current church is built on a promontory, bordered by a stream; a site typical of early churches. Benholm has had a parish church since at least 1242, but amalgamation of local parishes has resulted in this building now being in Mearns Coastal Parish.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1820
type: Museum

BOOKS ABROAD
description: A Missionary from Nigeria visited Banff Academy in 1974 and mentioned the great lack of books in his school in Africa.?As a result,?Keith Brunskill, a teacher at the Academy, founded LINK in 1982 to provide books to Africa. The Charity is now called BOOKS ABROAD and it has sent nearly 500 tonnes of books overseas to 1,500 schools and educational establishments in 80 countries. Our 2.5 millionth book was sent to Zanzibar in July 2011. Most of the work is carried out by volunteers, although we do have three paid employees.
source: aberdeenshire
type: Museum

Braemar Castle
description: <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> Braemar Castle, a tower house construction, was built in 1628, as a Highland Hunting Lodge for the Earl of Marto replace the crumbling Kindrochit Castle. Burned in 1689 during the first Jacobite Uprising, it was subsequently restored as a garrison for Hanoverian soldiers in 1748. For the past 200 years it has been home to the Chiefs of Clan Farquharson, as well as a number of fascinating tenants. This interesting history offers many tales to tell as you tour the 12 furnished rooms. Now operated by the local community, it has undergone essential repairs, and is now looking to further secure it's future with it's 'Raising the Standard' project to reharl the castle, along with other vital improvements. The castle is a 5 Storey, L Plan structure with a star shaped curtain wall. It is prominently situated on a raised mound on the south side of the River Dee and can be seen as you come into Braemar from the east.
source: aberdeenshire
date: 1628
type: Museum