Historic Aberdeen

I bliped one of the streets in this historic fishing village, little more than a mile from Aberdeen city centre.

Footdee is an area of Aberdeen known locally as "Fittie". It is an old fishing village at the east end of the harbour.

The area has had a settlement as far back as the Medieval times and the first recorded reference to the area of Fittie was in the year 1398. This village was slightly further North than where Footdee is now located.

Before the oil industry came to Aberdeen in the 1970's, Aberdeen was mainly dependant on its traditional industries, fishing, paper making, some textiles and some distilling. All of these industries have been in decline for the last 10/20 years and the face of the city had been changed for ever.