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Prefatory Note
UNDER the title of “East Neuk
Chronicles, by an East-Ender,” a series of papers dealing with life and
character in the East-End of Aberdeen between the years 1840 and 1860
appeared in the Aberdeen Evening Express during 1896. They were so
favourably received that the author was induced to pen a second series of
reminiscences, which were published in the Saturday issue of the Evening
Express during the year 1908. In. response to the request of many friends
and other readers, a collection has now been made of the principal papers in
the two series, which it is hoped will prove interesting to the general
public as recording phases of life that have long since passed away, and
describing “characters” that have vanished from the scene and left no
successors.
The papers were originally written with no thought of eventual
republication, and with little regard to literary style or elegance, to
which, indeed, the author makes no pretensions. They were not conceived on
any definite plan, and anything like continuity or sequence was not aimed
at. An endeavour has been made in this volume, however, to arrange the
matter in chapters and sections.
Aberdeen, March, 1906.
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