Friday 27th November 2026 | 12 for 12.30pm | Advocates Library, Aberdeen.

This year we will be back at the ever-popular Advocates’ Library for our North East Group annual lunch. Our talk this year will be given by former Lord Provost and champion of Aberdeen heritage, Councillor Barney Crockett.

Thomas Scott Sutherland (1899 – 1963) was an architect, city councillor in Aberdeen, and entrepreneur. In the 1950s he gifted Garthdee House to the Gray’s School of Architecture at Robert Gordon’s College, later the Robert Gordon University.

As an architect he was well known for his cinema designs, including Inverurie’s Victoria Cinema (1934) and Aberdeen’s Regent Cinema (1932), City Cinema, George Street (1933), Astoria, Kittybrewster (1934), Majestic, Union Street (1936) (which Scott Sutherland described in his biography, Life on One Leg, as his finest design).

£57.00 pp including lunch and wine

To book, please contact Charles Smith on charlesjsmith64@outlook.com by Wednesday 18th November.