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: […]

Marischal College

Aberdeen’s granite gem, a jewel on the city skyline It is no surprise to learn that the magnificent Marischal College is the second largest granite building in the world. Notable architects Archibald Simpson and Alexander Marshall Mackenzie designed the building in the nineteenth century. It stands proud on Aberdeen’s Broad Street, like an unearthly warrior, […]