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Step back in time: Photographic memories of Rubislaw Quarry Updated: May 17, 2021, 1:34 pm © Supplied Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Aberdeen was built from granite – and Rubislaw Quarry was where it came from. Not only did this massive excavation provide the materials for iconic city buildings such as Marischal College, the Music Hall, Woolmanhill Hospital and Provost Skene’s House, it was exported around the word. Rub...

Tom Weir | The Sage of Glen Coe By   I AM not a pessimist, but I couldn’t help wondering if I was wasting my time as I packed crampons, ice-axe, head torch, gaiters, climbing helmet and other gear. For the rain was battering on my window, and the weather forecast promised nothing better in the next 24 hours. I was bound for Fort William, to give a lecture, and Fort William and Ben Nevis go together. There was plenty of snow on the Ben, and I had thought it just possible that there could be an overnight change, not only in the overhead conditions, but in the watery eyes, running nose and s...