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Belmont Street, ABERDEEN, AB10 1JH

Roofscape on Belmont Street as seen from Union Bridge. The church was designed by John Smith in 1830. The granite building is now called St Nicholas West Kirk House.

In a half-hearted attempt at the pedestrianisation of Belmont Street (foreground), a couple of concrete blocks have been plonked down at the end of Little Belmont Street. The spire of the Kirk of St Nicholas looms in the background.

Designed by John Smith in Greek revival style and A-listed: http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:20082 . Now a bar and restaurant with outdoor seating.

The Triple Kirks site has been a planners' nightmare since the early 1970s when the building fell into disrepair. Plans for offices and other redevelopments have come and gone, leaving the derelict site dominating this part of the city centre. The A-listed brick spire still stands impassively.

This short street connecting Belmont Street (foreground) and the Back Wynd (background) is "semi-pedestrianised." The spire of St Nicholas Church looms up in the background and farther back is the now demolished St Nicholas House.

Belmont Street connects Union Street with Schoolhill and is "semi pedestrianised" with granite paving. Belmont Street hosts numerous bars, pubs and nightclubs and countless take-aways and is probably the rowdiest street in Aberdeen. Religion has been banished and the massive edifice of the South Church in the centre of the picture is now known as "Slain's Castle" bar.

Modern pedestrianized piazza off Aberdeen's Belmont Street. It gets its name from the former school (left of photograph) and is occupied by several restaurants.

"Ma's" is the Cameron's Inn, a venerable Aberdeen pub with a lot of character - in Little Belmont Street.

Claimed to be the oldest pub in Aberdeen and a welcome refuge for real-ale drinkers.

Arms of Cameron of Lochiel (Clan Cameron) on the wall of Ma Cameron's Alehouse on Little Belmont Street, Aberdeen. According to Fox-Davies' Armorial Families, the blazon is Gules three bars or (as seen here), whilst Burke's General Armory has it as Gules two bars or (as seen on the Clan Cameron Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Cameron . Both agree that the arms were matriculated in 1795, but were in use from a "remote period." The mantling is gules, doubled argent and the Crest: "on a wreath of his liveries, a sheaf of five arrows proper tied with a band gules." The supporters are two savages with Lochaber axes, all proper. The top motto in Gaelic is "Aonaibh Ri Chéile" ("Let us unite") and the bottom motto is "Mo Righ's Mo Dhuchaich" ("for King and country"). Clan Cameron were staunch Jacobites and fought alongside Charles Edward Stuart in the main battles of The '45 but after Culloden the Chief, Donald Cameron, was forced to flee to France.