What's hidden beneath Aberdeen's Union Street?

Is there anything interesting hidden under Union Street? Lets take a look!

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It's becoming something of a habit to find local historian Fiona Jane Brown already has a tour covering the subject I choose for my videos during my research.
Her tours really are fantastic and I heartily recommend checking them out as soon as Covid restrictions allow
http://www.hiddenaberdeentours.co.uk/index.php/tours/322-union-street-aberdeen-s-modern-heart

Sources:
Union Bridge
https://www.visitabdn.com/assets/Granite-Trail-ILV-final-draft.pdf

http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ZoomItem&i=123&WINID=1604685147578
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ZoomItem&i=373&WINID=1604685149117
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ZoomItem&i=658&WINID=1604685147527

Tunnels Under Union Bridge
http://otheraberdeen.blogspot.com/2012/02/under.html
https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/local/light-at-the-end-of-aberdeens-union-street-tunnels/

New Caledonia
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/11/britishidentity.past#:~:text=Instead%20it%20brought%20disaster.,Act%20of%20Union%20with%20England.

Aberdeen City Planning Applications
https://publicaccess.aberdeencity.gov.uk/online-applications/spatialDisplay.do?action=display&searchType=Application

Historic Environment Scotland Statement of Special Interest (for Union Street)
http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB20521

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/701600/short-history-building-union-street-left-aberdeen-bankrupt/

Record of monument, 64 Shiprow
https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?tab=main&refno=NJ90NW0322

https://publicaccess.aberdeencity.gov.uk/online-applications/files/B6E11130F9B98677F0191F0720E45EC7/pdf/131375-Archaeological_Assessment-1177119.pdf
https://publicaccess.aberdeencity.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=ZZZY9LBZSK642

Aberdeen Cable Subway
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&i=97016&WINID=1606416996942
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&i=97017&WINID=1606417013167
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&key=QnsiTiI6MSwiUCI6eyJpdGVtX2lkIjpbOTcwMDFdfX0&pg=1&WINID=1606417025324#Pr1sVF9xcckAAAFykRvGKA/97001

Wallace Tower
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&key=SnsiTiI6NSwiUCI6eyJpdGVtaWQiOiIyNTkiLCJwZXJjZW50VGVybXNUb01hdGNoIjoiMC42IiwibWF4UXVlcnlUZXJtcyI6IjIwIiwibWluRG9jRnJlcSI6IjEiLCJtaW5UZXJtRnJlcSI6IjEifX0&pg=3&WINID=1606949421390#Pr1sVF9xcckAAAFykRvGKA/884
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&key=SXsiTiI6MTQsIlAiOnsidmFsdWUiOiJ3YWxsYWNlIHRvd2VyIiwib3BlcmF0b3IiOiIxIiwiZnV6enlQcmVmaXhMZW5ndGgiOiI1IiwiZnV6enlNaW5TaW1pbGFyaXR5IjowLjgsIm1heFN1Z2dlc3Rpb25zIjoiNSIsImFsd2F5c1N1Z2dlc3QiOm51bGx9fQ&pg=1&WINID=1606949421390#Pr1sVF9xcckAAAFykRvGKA/87
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&key=SXsiTiI6MTQsIlAiOnsidmFsdWUiOiJ3YWxsYWNlIHRvd2VyIiwib3BlcmF0b3IiOiIxIiwiZnV6enlQcmVmaXhMZW5ndGgiOiI1IiwiZnV6enlNaW5TaW1pbGFyaXR5IjowLjgsIm1heFN1Z2dlc3Rpb25zIjoiNSIsImFsd2F5c1N1Z2dlc3QiOm51bGx9fQ&pg=14&WINID=1606949421390#Pr1sVF9xcckAAAFykRvGKA/97525

St Nicholas Street
https://tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/02/old-photograph-st-nicholas-street.html

Tunnels Nightclub
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsOfTime/photos/the-tunnels-aberdeen/1340223536070733

Unit51 Nightclub
https://twitter.com/unit51aberdeen

Back Wynd Stairs
http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&key=SXsiTiI6MTgsIlAiOnsidmFsdWUiOiJiYWNrIHd5bmQiLCJvcGVyYXRvciI6IjEiLCJmdXp6eVByZWZpeExlbmd0aCI6IjUiLCJmdXp6eU1pblNpbWlsYXJpdHkiOjAuOCwibWF4U3VnZ2VzdGlvbnMiOiI1IiwiYWx3YXlzU3VnZ2VzdCI6bnVsbH19&pg=4&WINID=1607364070612#Pr1sVF9xcckAAAFykRvGKA/596

Union Street Viaduct
http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB20077

28 days later Denburn Report:
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/aberdeen-darkie-the-hole-burn-aberdeen-scotland.115607/

This book was very helpful in the research of this video - I highly recommend this and other titles by Diane Morgan, they're a great read for anyone interested in Local History
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Aberdeen-Diane-Morgan/dp/1841583901

Return Of The Jedi is property of Lucasfilm 1983
Image of the British Isles by Ery Prihananto: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/uk-map
Water Dripping Sound Effect: Daniel Simon @ soundbible.com
TV Static Sound Effect: Mike Koening @ soundbible.com
“In the Bleak Midwinter” originally composed by Gustav Holst 1906
Sonic 3 Soundtrack originally composed by SEGA
Sim City 2000 Soundtrack originally composed by Maxis

See my other videos in this series:
The Ancient Road Into Aberdeen
https://youtu.be/k1wPUTaQPQg
Aberdeen's Hospitals Of The Past
https://youtu.be/ZUY1RqxCTis

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