• Guest Contributor
• Members blog on Torry
• Aug, 02, 2015
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11 am Sunday morning, half way to the battery in the sunshine. Wind rustling in the grass, waves lapping on the beach below and a wader’s call in among tweets from smaller birds. I notice the hum of engines in the harbour has been there the whole time only when it is drowned out by […]

• Guest Contributor
• Members blog on Torry
• Jul, 31, 2015
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Thinking of the project I’ve been noticing my favourite sounds from Victoria Road. One slightly misty evening the sound of the electronic beacon pinging in the harbour, later the sound of the swing going backwards and forwards in the playpark and this morning at 4.30 am the sound of boat engines and seagulls disturbing the […]

• Caroline
• Members blog on Torry
• Jun, 18, 2015
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When I went to Torry for the first time it was still. I couldn’t see the sea at first, I took bicycle around the headland to avoid the hills, because it was winter and dark. The first thing that struck me was the industrial spaces that dwarfed me on the road and stretched away from […]

• Jun
• Members blog on Torry
• May, 26, 2015
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In January 2013, I returned to Aberdeen, UK, after having stayed 18 months in the US. I had lived here for one year as a researcher at the University of Aberdeen, and I thought that it would be easy for me to come back and settle. It didn’t. Still in the US, getting a flat […]

• Francesco
• Members blog on Torry
• May, 12, 2015
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Torry, from ‘Torraidh’, is Gaelic for ‘hillock’/’knoll’: looking over the Torry Battery, one appreciates that there was a prominent elevation to this part of Aberdeen, which matched the one at the Union Street level, on the other side of the harbour waters: however, the battery came in centuries later than, say, the mediaeval church of […]

• Naoko
• Members blog on Torry
• May, 10, 2015
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Hello, Naoko here! Since this is I believe the first proper post for the Members’ blog on Torry, I will try to contribute something introductory that would help all of us – including those who live outside of Aberdeen – to get to know a little bit more about the area of Torry, based on my […]