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The Old Town House College Bounds, Old Aberdeen King's College, High Street, Old Aberdeen Powis Gates. Located to the north of Aberdeen city centre, Old Aberdeen was for a long time fairly isolated at the edge of the city, being followed to the north by the River Don, Seaton Park and the small Brig o' Balgownie hamlet.
The burgh council of Old Aberdeen originally met in a room above the south porch of St Machar's Cathedral. After finding this arrangement inadequate, they commissioned a purpose-built town house in the High Street in 1642. It accommodated a school and a weigh-house on the ground floor and a council chamber on the first floor.
Aberdeen Market Cross Aberdeen around 1900. There has been a human presence in the area of Aberdeen since the Stone Age.Aberdeen as a city, grew up as two separate burghs: Old Aberdeen, the university and cathedral settlement, at the mouth of the River Don; and New Aberdeen, a fishing and trading settlement where the Denburn entered the Dee estuary.
The Bede House in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, is a 17th-century Scottish town house. It was built in 1676 as a residence for Bailie William Logan and his wife Jean Moir [ 1 ] of Stoneywood. During the late 18th century, Old Aberdeen Bedesmen moved from their original hospital beside St Machar's Church to the former Logan house in Don Street.
St Machar's Cathedral is a Church of Scotland church in Aberdeen, Scotland, located to the north of the city centre, in the former burgh of Old Aberdeen. Technically, St Machar's is no longer a cathedral but rather a high kirk , as it has not been the seat of a bishop since 1690.
The area in modern times known as Old Aberdeen is the approximate location of the first and original Scottish settlement of Aberdeen. Originally the name was Aberdon which literally means "at the mouth of the Don", as it is situated by the mouth of the river Don.
King's College quad. King's College was the first university in Aberdeen, the third in Scotland and the fifth in the British Isles.In 1495, William Elphinstone, the relatively newly appointed Bishop of Aberdeen, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of King James IV to create the facility to cure the ignorance he had witnessed within his parish and in the north generally.
Hospitals in Old Aberdeen and "New" Aberdeen - 1200 to 1600. There are records for nine hospitals in Aberdeen and Old Aberdeen. [17] Just before the Scottish Reformation, Bishop Gavin Dunbar founded St Mary's Hospital (NJ 93838 08800) - also known as Bishop Dunbar's Hospital in 1531. Much earlier, a hospital for the sick and elderly, St Peters ...