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The Beach Ballroom

The Aberdeen Beach Ballroom is an art deco building which overlooks the Aberdeen sea front. The venue was opened in 1929 and it is home to one of Scotland’s finest dance floors – famous for its bounce – which floats on fixed steel springs.

The Beach Ballroom is about a twenty minute walk from the city centre along the main beach road, the Beach Boulevard.

The Beach Ballroom is the venue for the ITiCSE 2019 Pre-Conference Reception, to be held on the evening of Sunday 14th July.

The Beach Boulevard in relation to the City Centre

It is also the venue for the conference dinner on Tuesday 16th July.

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View from the Working Group and Doctoral Consortium Building

Some Walks Around Aberdeen

If you are going to be here on the Saturday or Sunday prior to the conference (and are not involved in a Working Group or the Doctoral Consortium), you may want to wander around the City for an hour or two. Here are three different walks which take you around different parts of Aberdeen.

1. Union Street and the City Centre

Aberdeen City Centre

2. Old Aberdeen, Seaton Park and the River Don

Old Aberdeen, Seaton Park and the River Dee

3. Aberdeen Beach, the Harbour and Footdee

Aberdeen Beach, the Harbour and Footdee

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3rd July 2019


Plan of the Cities of Aberdeen.
Wood, John, ca. 1780-1847
Smith, John, 1781-1852

Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

Read John Wood’s accompanying History of the City of Aberdeen on the Internet Archive website.  

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Abredoniae novae et veteris descriptio
auctore Jacobo Gordono.
Description of new and of old Aberdeens, with the places neerest adjacent.
Gordon, James, 1615?-1686  

Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

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24th June 2019

New Kings, Old Aberdeen