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Reference NoAHB/11/1/12
TitleAberdeen Harbour Board: Glass Plate Box 12, labelled "Commissioners visit to Leith Docks"
DescriptionOriginally stored in wooden box, labelled "Commissioners visit to Leith Docks". Research in the British Newspaper Archive indicates that the Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners visited Leith in June 1913 to view the fish market at Newhaven, new Imperial Dry Dock, central electrical station, sea embankment, coal hoists, hydraulic pumping stations, grain elevators and new electric crane at the Imperial Dock (Scotsman 8 June 1913, page 12).
The internal index states slots: 35-50 "Peterhead": this was inaccurate.
Plates dimensions: 63 x 88mm.
Datec. June 1913
Extent15 glass plates
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