From dinner dances and gala days to the opening of the Co-op and Tillydrone Family Centre, Tillydrone has plenty of memories to look back at fondly.
Do you remember when the Tillydrone Library opened? Or the Tilly Youth Project? We sure do!
To celebrate the tight-knit, loving community Tillydrone has, we’ve compiled some of the best photographs of the area of Aberdeen from our archives.
Let us know in the comment section if you have any fond memories from Tillydrone or if you recognise any of the familiar faces in our photos.
1990 – Mums Teresa Cromar, left, and Mairi Willox, who were organising a winter fair to raise money towards a club for youngsters at St Machar School, along with helper, Lorraine Thomson, centre.
1990 – Committee members of the Tillydrone Food Co-op show off their wares as they prepare to open. From left Elizabeth Main, co-treasurer, Barbara Henderson, vice chairperson, Nancy Donaghue, Dorothy Irvine, chairwoman and Pat Whyte, treasurer.
1989 – Youth worker Kate Guyan and part-time workers Ethel MacLeod, third left, and Mike Wallace, right, with Tillydrone teenagers they worked with.
1988 – Tillydrone senior citizens at their annual Christmas dinner dance in the Tillydrone Community Centre.
1990 – Tilly Food Co-op is opened with a purchase by social work convener Councillor Brian Balcombe from organising committee vice-chairwoman Barbara Henderson.
1988 – Michael McFadyen, 9, who won the Tillydrone Community Centre junior pool competition is congratulated by coach Dorothy Milne as Greg Milnes, 11, shows off his runner-up trophy.
1982 – Brenda Main and some of her Tillydrone friends with their petition calling for action over the lack of leisure facilities.
1992 – Craig Thomson, 17 months, plays with some of the buggies at Tillydrone Library toy lending service.
1990 – Tillydrone Community Council secretary Aileen Goymer takes a pelting with wet sponges as part of gala day events.
1987 – Social work committee chairwoman Councillor Laura Hutcheon, seated centre, is joined by other guests at the official opening of the Tillydrone Family Centre.
1989 – The mother and toddler group from the Tillydrone Family Centre.
1987 – Caroline Anderson operates a sewing machine, with her eight-month-old daughter Kyla by her side, in an initiative run by Tilly Youth Project.
1984 – Tillydrone Primary School pupils get set to deliver food parcels to local pensioners after raising £1,400 in a sponsored spelling session.
1993 – Library assistant Sandra Smith plays with Claire Walker, 7, while Mark Elrick, 6, operates a crane, in Tillydrone Library’s toy section.
1991 – Councillor Jim Wyness tries out one of the toy tractors on loan at Tillydrone Library and is helped by Councillor Malcolm Savidge, chairman of the library subcommittee, to cut a cake marking the library opening.
1988 – Tillydrone pensioners Sydney Bruce, 71, left, his wife Dorothy, 69, and William Burr, 74, of Aberdeen, show their delight at receiving Christmas parcels from Tillydrone Primary School pupils Nee Raj, left, and Robert Balgowan.
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Gallery: Tillydrone through the years – fun festivals, dinner dances and youth groups
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