Wonder if anyone could tell me where 'Stills Buildings, Kintore' were or maybe still are. Also is there any website or publication that may have a picture of them?
Many thanks
KBG
I can't find anything either. My mother lived in the top floor of the tenement in 1921 and describes the following:
"At the head of the perforated iron stair was a small platform, in which stood a large iron sink with a single cold water tap. This was the communal water supply for the tenement houses above the stair and it was from this platform, using the sink as a stand for our chipped crockery mugs, that we launched our beautiful bubbles... [We] vied with each other to see whose would go furthest, whose was the biggest and who would even be fortunate enough to see one of our beautiful missiles land with a plot on the unsuspecting head of the hotel maid as she crossed the "close" en route for the byre to do the milking"
I'm guessing it was near the Kintore Arms - she also mentions commercial travellers in that connection. I suspect it no longer exists. You can do a search by place on the 1915 Valuation Rolls using Scotlandspeople (ppv). Select Aberdeen, then Kintore. Ignore names - enter Stills Buildings under Place. The 1911 Census will give an idea of where it was as well.
