Aberdeen Removals

Moving to Aberdeen?

One can find the city of Aberdeen on Scotland’s long and sandy northeast coastline. Scotland’s third most populous city it has been an area of human settlement for around 8,000 years! The mouths of the River Dee and the River Don have long been prime locations for settlement dating back to prehistoric times.

Most of Aberdeen’s architecture was constructed from the locally quarried grey granite, during the Victorian Era. As a result of this, Aberdeen was nicknamed, the ‘Grey City’, or ‘Granite City’. More romantically it was sometimes known as the ‘Silver City with the Golden Sands’, due to the mica deposits within the granite, that sparkle like silver. Granite is one of the most durable materials available and therefore buildings constructed using granite need very little structural maintenance. Marischall College, which was opened by Kind Edward VII in 1906, is the second largest granite building in the world, second only to the Escorial, in Madrid.

Since the 1970s, with the discovery of oil in the North Sea, the oil industry is understandably Aberdeen’s biggest industry, alongside its seaport, which happens to be the largest seaport in northeast Scotland. It is also home to one of the largest commercial heliports in the world! The city has two universities and is home to some fabulous museums, theatres and art galleries, and hosts a number of annual festivals. Each year the ‘Aberdeen International Youth Festival’ is hosted in the city. This is a world-famous event that attracts up to 1000 of the most talented young performing arts companies.

Aberdeen has won the ‘Britain in Bloom’ competition an impressive ten times!! In fact, after it had won the competition nine times in a row, the city was actually banned from entering for a year to give another city a chance!

Aberdeen is also famous for its forty-five parks and gardens, and also for its incredible citywide floral displays. These displays include two million roses and eleven million daffodils!

Aberdeen is a colourful, vibrant, cultural and active city, and a great place to live.