Old Photograph Cults Scotland

Old photograph of shops, tram, houses, and people in Cults a suburb on the western edge of Aberdeen road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Cults, known for its historic granite housing, sits approximately six miles from the coast of the North Sea. The name is a corruption of Coilltean, the Scottish Gaelic word for Woods.

Anna Shepherd, Scottish novelist and poet, was born on 11 February 1893 in Peterculter to John and Jane Shepherd. Her family moved to Cults shortly after Nan was born, to the house where she lived for most of her life. She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls and graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1915, subsequently lecturing for the Aberdeen College of Education. She died in Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen in 1981.



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