Aberdeen in 50 Buildings

by Jack Gillon

Aberdeen, Scotland's third largest city, has been a place of economic importance since the development of the shipbuilding and fishing industries, and has been synonymous with oil ever since the discovery of North Sea reserves in the 1970s. Nicknamed the 'Granite City' due to the locally quarried grey granite that was used in many of the city's most important buildings, Aberdeen has a proud and distinctive identity with an extraordinary history embodied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445676168
• ISBN13: 9781445676166
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"