Tullos is an area of
Aberdeen,
Scotland. The area takes its name from the Vale of Tullos, which lies between Tullos Hill and Torry Hill. Tullos derived its name from a corruption of the Gaelic ‘Tulach’ meaning a hill.
In this extract from the "Book of St. Fittick", published in 1902, Dr. Thomas White Ogilvie describes what the scene looked like in his day.
"It is full of quiet charm, this little glen, with its Kirk on the height and its Kirk in the hollow, extending from the great gap in the cliff, which forms the Bay, up to the river, where, with majestic bend, it sweeps glittering and gurgling by Allenvale and Duthie Park, sweetest of resting places for the quick and the dead."
The scene is very different today. In 1850 the Caledonian, Great North of Scotland and North
British Railways
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
began to provide rail links to Aberdeen. The main line cut through the Vale of Tullos. The area south of the railway line is full of
car
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarded as ...
showrooms,
oil yards and waste
recycling plants. Northwards, a vast area of densely packed housing covers the hillside.
''Tullos'' is now home to the headquarters of
Northsound Radio,
Original 106 Aberdeen and
STV North
Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and now named STV. The northern region's coverage area includes the Northern Isles, Western Isles, Highlands (except Fort William and ...
(formerly Grampian Television).
Education
Tullos has a
primary school. A
Cruyff Court
A Cruyff Court is a small football field with a surface made of artificial grass, a contemporary version of the ball court. The Courts are a project of the Johan Cruyff Foundation of which Johan Cruijff himself was one of the founders. The first ...
, the second in Aberdeen, was opened in 2019. The court is named
Neale Cooper.
References
External links
St. Fittick's ChurchA walk around TorryTorry, Aberdeen
{{Areas of Aberdeen
Areas of Aberdeen