Timeless Trail: Queens Road

Aberdeen city centre has a remarkable selection of sculptures, as featured in Aberdeen City Council’s Sculpture and Curios Trail. The below can be found on Albyn Place or Queens Cross, in the city’s handsome West End. A bronze statue of Queen Victoria, by Charles Bell Birch (1893). It is mounted on a pink granite plinth. Note: […]

Ballater

Ballater is a picturesque village in Aberdeenshire, on the edge of the Cairngorm Mountains and at the heart of Royal Deeside. Nearby is the Royal Family’s residence, Balmoral Castle. Queen Victoria famously wrote of the Deeside area: “All seemed to breathe freedom and peace”. Ballater is a ballad in brick. Walk down a street of […]