For years Aberdeen was a boomtown which boasted the highest concentration of millionaires in Britain, one of the lowest rates of unemployment and gave thousands the opportunity to make their fortune as the North Sea oil flowed.
High class hotels, bars and restaurants sprang up to service the burgeoning number of highly paid offshore workers and allow them to let off steam and empty their bulging wallets on their shore leave.
Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen FC were crowned the kings of Europe twice, beating Real Madrid to win the European Cup Winners Cup in May 1983 and the European Super Cup seven months later.
The Scottish National Party even notoriously claimed that the huge tax revenues from North Sea oil and gas could bankroll an independent Scotland to become a sovereign European nation in their quit-the-union literature.
But Westminster's growing obsession with net zero environmental policies culminated in Labour's refusal to allow new drilling in the North Sea which dealt a body blow to a city already reeling from the 2014 slump in the oil price.
