Meetings of the Plans and Public Health Committees of Aberdeen Town Council were held yesterday to consider the plans of the proposed new works to be erected near Kittybrewster for the Scottish Combworks Company, Limited. The Public Health Committee unanimously approved the plans, an amendment by Councillor Cooper not to sanction them not finding a [...]
Below is a Stewart, Rowell, & Co business card from the nineteenth century. The reverse of the card reads Sir, Having extended our business, and being desirous of extending our connexions, our Traveller, Mr. James McWilliam, will wait upon you and show you Patterns; and, if the quality and prices of our goods meet your [...]
Fire at Aberdeen Comb Works About four o’clock this morning fire was discovered to have broken out in a bone-mill at the back of the main building of Messrs Stewart and Co.’s Comb Manufactory. The fire brigade was telephoned for, but in the meantime a hose reel kept on the premises was brought into requisition, [...]