Gallowgate: Aberdeen's Borderlands (The North)

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Marischal College
Broad Street
Aberdeen
AB10 1YS

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Continuing from its launch in 2018, first in a series of four, covering Aberdeens Borderlands. The Gallowgate represented the way to the city's Northern border, Mounthooly, as Aberdon was a separate burgh until 1891. From its earliest origins as the first site of civic executions to the home of the citys earliest thread mill, Porthill, the Gallowgate has changed rapidly through time. An industrial area from earliest medieval times with the home of the Tannery near Broadgate, and later Soapy Ogstons; site of the Quakers burying ground, often dug up by an less than supportive council; the home of Mars Castle, a curious building latterly used for the medical students to hold their earliest meetings of the Medico-Chirurgical Society; and the site of the famous Middle School, the first to have a swimming pool in the city. Gallowgate hides many secrets, we will attempt to reveal some on this tour.MEET: Outside NESCol, Gallowgate).

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