Aberdeen Pub Meet

[Forbsie]

Having noticed a few forumites from the Aberdeen area, anyone fancy a get-togetherover Xmas?

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[Nick2]

Is that somewhere near Bucks/Berks ?

Perhaps we could combine these two proposals ..........


Nick

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[BarryH]

Silly question, asking if anyone here wants a drink! Oh wheres Aberdeen, will it take long to get there?

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[BrendanS]

It's a little village in Teddington. Bit like Soho is in London

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[Forbsie]

A few facts for you heathens

The self-sealing envelope was invented in Aberdeen.

• There are over 30 towns named Aberdeen throughout the world. Many are in the United States, including the states of Washington, Maryland, Mississippi, and South Dakota.

• The average annual rainfall for Aberdeen is 24 inches. In Edinburgh, the average is 26 inches and in Glasgow it is 46 inches.

• Aberdeen has won the Britain in Bloom contest a record 10 times.

• Rubislaw Quarry in Aberdeen, from which much of the city’s granite building material comes, is one of the largest man-made holes in Europe. It is some 400ft deep but currently full of water.

• Aberdeen is home to Scotland’s largest permanent funfair.

• Waterloo Bridge in London and the terrace of the Houses of Parliament are constructed of Aberdeen granite. Over 640,000 cubic feet of Aberdeen granite were used in the construction of the Forth Rail Bridge.

• Union Bridge in the centre of Aberdeen is still the largest single-span stone bridge in the world.

• Aberdeen has the busiest civil helicopter airport in the world.

• The Aberdeen Press and Journal is Britain’s oldest daily newspaper and the world’s third-oldest English-language newspaper. It can trace its roots to 1746 when the town printer, James Chalmers, wrote an eyewitness account of the Battle of Culloden.

• The fastest ever sailing ship, the Thermopylae, was built in Aberdeen in 1868.

• The first iron lung was designed in Aberdeen in 1933, by Robert Henderson.

• Union Street, Aberdeen’s main street, was built over a period of five years in the early the 1800s. At the time, this was one of the biggest construction jobs in Europe and virtually bankrupted the city.

• Aberdeen’s Rowett Research Institute has produced three Nobel laureates.

• Europe’s highest concentration of life scientists is concentrated around Aberdeen.

• The astronomer Sir David Gill (1843-1914), who took the first photograph of the moon, in 1868, was born in Aberdeen.

• Water polo was invented on the River Dee in 1863.

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[Deep_6]

Re: A few facts for you heathens

Not to mention oil capital of Europe - although most of the benifits go South.
Scotlands third largest city
Gateway to Royal Deeside
A busy working harbour in the city centre
Some great pubs


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[FullCircle]

Re: A few facts for you heathens

....and when I lived there in the Eighties, it had the most ruthlessly efficient methods for separating returning Rig Crews from their hard earned before the wives could get their hands on it!!! Starting at Derricks Bar in the airport, and leading to smiling semi-consciousness in the taxi outside Happy Valley or similar. Bloody marvellous place to live/work.



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