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Looking down Schoolhill, Aberdeen
Marischal College (the new headquarters of Aberdeen City Council) literally dazzles in the sunshine.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 1 Apr 2013
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Aberdeen - Upperkirkgate
Historic street in Aberdeen's city centre, leading to / from the Mither Kirk of St Nicholas.
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 8 May 2014
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School Hill
Site of Upperkirkgate Port.
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 8 Apr 2009
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Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen
Seen from the junction with Gallowgate, Upperkirkgate leads down from Marischal College to Schoolhill. There is a Starbucks coffee shop on the right and Saltire Fashions - which specialises in Scottish-themed clothing - beyond that.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 7 Nov 2009
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Three generations of buildings
In the left foreground, part of the recently restored Provost Skene's house (A-listed: LB20156 https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB20156 ), then part of the Marishal Square office and leisure complex and finally part of the facade of Marischal College, completed in 1906 and also A-listed (LB20096 https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB20096 ).
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 25 May 2023
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Mitchell Tower, Marischal College
Taken from the roof of St Nicholas House, Aberdeen's new Town House. Marischal College is the world's second biggest granite building, after El Escorial in Spain. In the distance is the gasholder which stood by Pittodrie Stadium.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: Unknown
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Marischal College, Aberdeen
This fine granite building was appropriately still home to Aberdeen University's Geology Department when this photograph was taken in 1979.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: Unknown
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The Queen meets the crowds
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Aberdeen on 20th May 1977 as part of her Silver Jubilee tour of the UK. Here she is going 'walk-about' outside Marischal College and chatting with the enthusiastic crowds who came to see her.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 20 May 1977
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The Queen meets the crowds
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Aberdeen on 20th May 1977 as part of her Silver Jubilee tour of the UK. Here she is going 'walk-about' outside Marischal College and chatting with the enthusiastic crowds who came to see her.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 20 May 1977
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Gallowgate streetscene
The vista down Gallowgate, with Greyfriars House in the left foreground, the epic granite towers of Marischal College and (yet again) the monolithic St Nicholas House in the right background.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 20 Jun 2008
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