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View from E showing SSE and ENE fronts of Regent Shed with part of Victoria Dock on left
SC 717817
Description View from E showing SSE and ENE fronts of Regent Shed with part of Victoria Dock on left
Date 3/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717817
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Regent Shed, Regent Quay, Victoria Dock, Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen Victoria Dock was Aberdeen's first large dock, built between 1840 and 1848. It was a wet (gated) dock, with both a single pair of gates and a lock to allow vessels to enter and leave when the tide was ebbing and flowing. At first the dock sides seem to have been open. This shows a block of two-storey transit sheds on the north side of the dock, on Regent's Quay, from the south east. Note the rail-mounted electric cranes running on top of the flat-roofed steel-framed building, and the two rows of sliding doors. The quay wall in front of the shed is of mass concrete. This building had eight covered hoists on its northern, road face. It was the only building of its kind in Aberdeen Harbour, and the roof-mounted cranes were unique in Scotland. The building was demolished in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/4/11
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