Tullos

For the town in Louisiana, see Tullos, Louisiana.

Tullos Scottish Gaelic: Tulach
The Shell offices, Tullos
Tullos Location within the Aberdeen City council area Show map of Aberdeen City council area Tullos Location within Scotland Show map of Scotland
Council area	Aberdeen City
Lieutenancy area	Aberdeen
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	AB
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish

Tullos is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. The area takes its name from the Vale of Tullos, which lies between Tullos Hill and Torry Hill. Tullos derived its name from a corruption of the Gaelic ‘Tulach’ meaning a hill.

In this extract from the "Book of St. Fittick", published in 1902, Dr. Thomas White Ogilvie describes what the scene looked like in his day.

"It is full of quiet charm, this little glen, with its Kirk on the height and its Kirk in the hollow, extending from the great gap in the cliff, which forms the Bay, up to the river, where, with majestic bend, it sweeps glittering and gurgling by Allenvale and Duthie Park, sweetest of resting places for the quick and the dead."

The scene is very different today. In 1850 the Caledonian, Great North of Scotland and North British Railways began to provide rail links to Aberdeen. The main line cut through the Vale of Tullos. The area south of the railway line is full of car showrooms, oil yards and waste recycling plants. Northwards, a vast area of densely packed housing covers the hillside.

Tullos is now home to the headquarters of Northsound Radio and STV North (formerly Grampian Television).

Education

Tullos has a primary school. A Cruyff Court, the second in Aberdeen, was opened in 2019. The court is named Neale Cooper.[1]

References

1. Proctor, David (7 November 2019). "Date set for official opening of Aberdeen's second Cruyff Court". Evening Express. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

External links

• St. Fittick's Church
• A walk around Torry
• Torry, Aberdeen