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From: "Jack Cook" <>
Subject: Re: Re:[ABERDEEN] Lord Provost Duncan Fraser
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:26:54 -0000
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I remember my parents laughing at an advert re-old fashioned drapers shop on
Schoolhill.

Advert read ' Duncan Fraser's Trousers Down Again '.

Jack Cook.

----- Original Message -----
From: Gavin Bell <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: Re:[ABERDEEN] Lord Provost Duncan Fraser


> Hayley wrote:
>
> > I wonder if anyone can help me with information of Lord Provost
> > Duncan Fraser?
>
> > I believe he was the 152nd Lord Provost of Aberdeen abt 1949. He
> > owned a old fashioned drapers shop in Aberdeen on Schoolhill I think
> > called Duncan Fraser's which I think closed in the 1960's. He was
> > married to Charlotte Hastings known as Lottie.
>
> I can't contribute anything very useful about Duncan, but I think I can
> remember his shop. Its chief attraction was the system for getting the
> cash from the shop counter to the cash desk at the rear of the shop.
> While "hi-tech" shops like Isaac Benzies did this by means of a system
> of pneumatic tubes which sucked your payment (enclosed in a cylindrical
> metal pod) to the accounts department, and blew your change back by the
> same route, the Schoolhill shop used spherical wooden containers, which
> were hoisted up by the sales assistant on a sort of lift, to an overhead
> railway, where they ran by gravity to the cashier.
>
> If nobody can help with more useful info on Duncan, try the Archives:
>
> Aberdeen City Archives
> Legal & Democratic Services Department
> Aberdeen City Council
> Town House
> Broad Street
> Aberdeen AB10 1AQ
>
>
>
>
> Gavin Bell
>
>
>
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