The site was developed till eventually employing around 1,800 people at its peak. In the 1920s a small local farmers cooperative, which had been mothballed, was taken over by the Lawson family, originally from Dunfermline. One of these is believed to be the Tyrebagger Quarry just north of Aberdeen to the East of the A96.Ī major employer in the village was the firm Lawsons which was a meat producer, mainly of pork and ham.
During World War I conscientious objectors laboured at Dyce Work Camp at Dyce Quarries. There is a small morthouse in one corner of the enclosure, which is adjoined by a modern extension, still in use for burials. The graveyard surrounding the old church was used into the 20th century, and retains almost no old gravestones. A broken font, somewhat resembling a round-backed chair in its present condition, lies outside the church, and may also be of early medieval date. They were left in situ and are readily visible. Two further carved stones, of uncertain (though probably early) character, were discovered re-used as building rubble in the inner east gable and outer south wall during the chapel's restoration. The Chapel is a unicameral late medieval building with alterations perhaps of the 17th or 18th century. Today the cemetery, north of the airport, and overlooking the River Don, hosts the roofless but otherwise virtually complete former St Fergus Chapel, within which Pictish and early Christian stones from the 7th–9th centuries, found in or around the churchyard, are displayed ( Historic Scotland open at all times without entrance charge). Dyce is the site of an early medieval church dedicated to the 8th century missionary and bishop Saint Fergus, otherwise associated with Glamis, Angus.
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