Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
General view looking NE showing upper dock with harbour offices and numbers 18-30 on left
SC 717924
Description General view looking NE showing upper dock with harbour offices and numbers 18-30 on left
Date 3/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717924
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Upper Dock (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. It was divided into two by the Regent Bridge, the inner part being the 'Upper Dock'. This shows the Upper Dock from Market Street, looking east to the Regent Bridge, whose power station is at the end of the quay on the right. The building with the clock tower is the harbour offices of 1883-85, designed by A Marshall Mackenzie, architect, Aberdeen. The Regent Bridge was demolished and the Upper Dock remodelled in the mid 1970s to handle oil-rig supply ships for the North Sea Oil Industry, and to provide a roll-on-roll-off berth for the Shetland ferries. The harbour offices have survived. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/6/18
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/717924
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © Copyright: HES (Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland)
Licence Type: Full Assignation
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
