Illustrated card covers, some light shelfwear but otherwise in Fine condition. First edition, Signed and inscribed by Author to a previous owner, pp ix, 139, b&w illustrations. Highlights the policing and mountain rescue aspects of being a bobby in the Cairngorm highlands. View More...
Illustrated card covers, New. First edition, pp 54, colour and b&w illustrations, bibliography.
Many Railways were promoted in the nineteenth century to serve rural areas but not all were actually built. Aberdeenshire was a rich rural area which needed better transport but the scattered nature of the population made it difficult to serve the whole area. View More...
New book in illustrated card covers. First edition, pp 88, colour and b&w illustrations, bibliography.The Deeside Line ran from Aberdeen up the Dee Valley as far as Ballater. It could have gone further, to Braemar, but that would have brought it too close to Balmoral Castle which was already in royal ownership when the line was built in the 1850s and 1860s. Originally built by the independent Deeside Railway, the line prospered as part of the Great North of Scotland Railway in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Link to Braemar was established in 1904 by a pioneering GNSR bus ser... View More...
New paperback, republished from the original edition of 1911. Pp xviii,164, with the original b&w photographs and illustrations. It has a new introduction by Bryn Wayte, of Deeside Books. G.M. Fraser's Aberdeen Street Names is the latest in a series of rare and out of print titles to be republished by Deeside Books of Ballater. The original first edition was printed in 1911 by William Smith & Sons of the Bon-Accord Press, Aberdeen, and was one several published by this author on the local area. George Milne Fraser (1862-1938) was born in the Parish of Methlick, Aberdeenshire and started his ... View More...
Hardback with b&w illustrations, some light shelfwear but otherwise in Fine condition. Great North of Scotland Railway Locomotives. With appendix: Tablet exchange apparatus. The steamk locomotives of Noth-East Scotland's own railway described and illustrated.
Large paperback format in Mint condition, 64 pages with 110 B&W illustrations; images of Royal Deeside spanning 150 years. A comparison of views taken from the mouth of the Dee along the valley as far as the Linn of Dee and beyond by local photographer Jim Henderson of Kincardine O'Neil. 2nd revised edition with some updating of the text but retaining all of the original photography to enable a direct comparison to be made based on the 150 year time span.. View More...
The Dee and Don Passes is the third volume of the author's works on the old roads in the north-east region of Scotland. Signed by Author. The second book in the trilogy, The Mounth Passes, describes the history and development of the old roads, tracks and pathways that were used as the means of communication and trade to the south and west of the old Deeside road. This third and current book covers the history of the routes that joined the old Deeside road from the north and shows how they helped to form a continuous network of links throughout the country. All of these minor routes ran in a p... View More...
Illustrated card covers, New. First edition, pp viii, 130, b&w photographs and colour maps to rear, index of place names. G.M. Fraser was best known as Head Librarian of the Aberdeen Public Library during the earlier part of the 20th century. He was also a noted local historian with a great interest in both the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire areas, and produced many pamphlets and books on the North-east of Scotland. His largest and probably most significant work was the publication of The Old Deeside Road in 1921, in which he identified and recorded what remained of one of the region's oldest thor... View More...
The Mounth Passes is a continuation of the author's previous work, The Old Deeside Road Revisited, and both books outline the cultural and historical significance of the region's communication network. The old Deeside road's development was predominantly in an east-west direction, following the course of the River Dee, and is associated with the development of the turnpike system. In contrast, the old Mounth passes predominantly follow a north-south direction, and developed primarily as walking routes over the higher ground. Cattle droving was one of the major uses for these north-south route... View More...
