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Victoria Road, ABERDEEN, AB11 9NE

Typical Aberdeen tenements.

This is the main street in 'New Torry', the expansion of which began with the construction of the Victoria Bridge in 1881. Victoria Street and the adjacent streets are lined with silver-grey granite tenements and villas. The streetscape is not enhanced by parked cars, wheelie bins and satellite dishes.

It seems that flats are incorporated into the upper stories.

This is the former Episcopal church, designed by the partnership of John Kinross (1855-1931) and Harold Ogle ('Tarrybreeks') Tarbolton (1869-1947) and built in 1897-1898. It looks like red brick, but is in fact faced with pink granite blocks the size of bricks. It was converted to housing in 1985. I am surprised that the planners allowed the monstrously incongruous breezeblock box to intrude and obscure the west gable.

This is the former Episcopal church, designed by the partnership of John Kinross (1855-1931) and Harold Ogle ('Tarrybreeks') Tarbolton (1869-1947) and built in 1897-1898. It looks like red brick, but is in fact faced with pink granite blocks the size of bricks. It was converted to housing in 1985.

Grey granite Gothic by D and J R MacMillan, and built in 1889-1890. It was originally a Free Kirk, but is now plastered with banners saying it is a 'prayer zone' of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement http://www.wccrm-europe.org/watchman-europe-2/watchman-in-the-uk/.

Mansfield Road visible in the foreground.

Owned by James Cordiner & Son Ltd and situated at 100 Sinclair road, Aberdeen. Horizontal single cylinder drop valve engine by Marshall Sons & Co Ltd, Gainsborough. No. 48835 of 1908. Flywheel 12' diameter and driving by ropes (seen bottom left). About 150 horsepower. In use until 1975 and on standby until the late 1970s. Scrapped in 1983 or 4. The steam valves had trip gear controlled by the Proell governor and the exhaust valves were operated by cams with roller followers.

Owned by James Cordiner & Son Ltd and situated at 100 Sinclair road, Aberdeen. Horizontal single cylinder drop valve engine by Marshall Sons & Co Ltd, Gainsborough. No. 48835 of 1908. Flywheel 12' diameter and driving by ropes (seen bottom left). About 150 horsepower. In use until 1975 and on standby until the late 1970s. Scrapped in 1983 or 4. The steam valves had trip gear controlled by the Proell governor and the exhaust valves were operated by cams with roller followers.

Opened 1890 and originally Torry Free Church. The building was taken over as a children's "fun palace" in the 1990s but that has folded too. A notice on the door suggests that a charismatic Christian group are now occupying the building.