North-east storms 1978-1994

North-east storms 1978-1994 The Aberdonian

The north-east has always been known for its volatile weather, so in this week's Aberdonian we're taking a look back at storms from years gone by.

From homes to cars, the damage that nature can cause is severe, and we've searched out archives to find the storms that hit the hardest.

An atmospheric picture taken by reader John Sellar, Doune Cottage, Fife Street, Macduff

Debris outside the joiner’s workshop at Harbour Lane, Gardenstown. The rear of the van was damaged when the vehicle was thrown against the workshop door

Joy Murdoch, 6 Scotstown, Banff, spent her 60th birthday with the door sandbagged and the windows boarded up against a storm

The breakwater at Peterhead Bay of Refuge, with the lifeboat James And Mariska Joicey in the foreground

Derek Morren beside a Ford Capri loaned to him by his father, which was hit by a tree outside his home at 25 Richmond Terrace, Aberdeen

Studying her devastated kitchen after an adjacent gable wall crashed into it is Adele McGill, of 5 Arduthie Street, Stonehaven

Jack Anderson takes stock of the view from his window at 150 Lang Stracht, Aberdeen

Violet Campbell looks at a window which was blown into the home of her sister in Ruthrieston Crescent, Aberdeen. Rose Moir was watching TV at the time

A distraught Lilian Thorndick looks at the wreckage of her Renault in Elmbank Road, Aberdeen, after it fell victim to a section of tenement roof brought down by the wind

A falling tree uprooted paving slabs as it toppled in Aberdeen’s Fountainhall Road

Bill Brand puts on a brave face as he removes one of the girders which destroyed his greenhouse and landed on top of his garage in Seafield Lane, St Fergus

Dugald Baird Court resident Helen Greig and friend Kenny Strachan beside one of the cars flattened in a gable end collapse at Kincorth, Aberdeen

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