Evening Express Memories

19/06/2025

For close to 40 years, a regional kids' five-a-side football tournament was held at the Beacon Sports Centre in Aberdeen's Bucksburn, with teams from across the north-east taking part.

For close to 40 years, a regional kids' five-a-side football tournament was held at the Beacon Sports Centre in Aberdeen's Bucksburn, with teams from across the north-east taking part.

11/06/2025

Did you play in the annual kids' five-a-side football at the Beacon Sports Centre in Aberdeen? ⚽📸

We've got ANOTHER gallery of archive pictures, this time from 1984-1989:

For close to 40 years, a regional kids' five-a-side football tournament was held at the Beacon Sports Centre in Aberdeen's Bucksburn, with teams from across the north-east taking part.

05/06/2025

The Grammar side, which included a future Aberdeen captain, remain the only team from the north-east of Scotland to have won the Scottish Schools' Senior Shield.

The Grammar side, which included a future Aberdeen captain, remain the only team from the north-east of Scotland to have won the Scottish Schools' Senior Shield.

02/06/2025

Anyone remember the annual primary school five-a-side football tournament at Aberdeen's Beacon Sports Centre?🤔⚽️
We've got decades of pics from the regional March/April event in The Press and Journal/Evening Express archives, which we've now been able to digitise - here's the first batch!

For close to 40 years, a regional kids' five-a-side football tournament was held at the Beacon Sports Centre in Aberdeen's Bucksburn, with teams from across the north-east taking part.

08/05/2025

Crowds in Castle Street, Aberdeen, celebrating VE Day on this historic day 80 years ago. Lord Provost Thomas Mitchell surveys the scene from the balcony.

When victory was declared after six long years of strife, Aberdonians danced reels in the streets and embraced strangers in celebration ❤️

VE Day not only signalled the end of bloodshed in Europe, but at home too.

📸: Castle Street, May 8 1945 ©️DC Thomson

22/04/2025

Were you part of the ABERDEEN INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL FESTIVAL?
We've now digitised pictures from the first nine years of the AIFF (1981-1989)
See if you can spot yourself, your friends/family. or one future footballing icon in our gallery...

Take a look through our Aberdeen International Football Festival archive images from 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989.

03/04/2025

CHAMPION STREET 2003-2008
Did you play in long-running Aberdeen kids' football tournament, Champion Street?
We've now published our FINAL year-by-year gallery with at least 150 pictures to look through!

Did you play in Aberdeen's Champion Street kids' football tournament between 2003 and 2008? See if you can spot yourself in our picture gallery!

19/03/2025

It’s been nearly 20 years since Dyce Academy school leavers danced the night away at their prom at the AECC 💃

You might recognise some familiar faces in our nostalgic gallery from 2005… 📸

Were you part of Dyce Academy's class of 2005? You might just make an appearance in our nostalgic gallery of Dyce Academy's school leavers' prom at the AECC 20 years ago...

05/03/2025

REVEALED: Champion Street could be set for return to Aberdeen kids’ football calendar THIS SUMMER

A football coach has launched a bid to bring back the beloved Aberdeen kids' summer tournament following our recent nostalgic picture galleries.

27/02/2025

Did YOU play in long-running Aberdeen kids' football tournament, Champion Street, between 1991 and 1996?

Did you play in Aberdeen's Champion Street kids' football tournament between 1991 and 1996? See if you can spot yourself in our picture gallery!

25/02/2025

An old Victorian country school has gone on the market for offers over £48,000.

Cairnbanno School was opened as part of a pioneering scheme to offer universal education for free in the New Deer district.

It opened as a Madras school to educate rural children in 1862, but was more recently used as a community hall.

This is the story of Cairnbanno School: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/6695669/cairnbanno-school-for-sale/

📸: Cairnbanno School, and its pupils in 1933.

13/02/2025

More than 80 images of Royal Aberdeen Golf Club through the years.

The Balgownie links has played host to some big events in recent years, including the 2005 Senior British Open, the 2011 Walker Cup and the 2014 Scottish Open.