IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Whiterashes, ABERDEEN, AB15 8QE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Whiterashes, AB15 8QE by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (23 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
1
Kingswells Church Hall
The inscription above the door reads: This stone was laid / by / Captain Brooke / of Fairley / on 24th August 1901.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 Apr 2011
0.05 miles
2
Kingswells Parish Church (Church of Scotland)
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 Apr 2011
0.05 miles
3
Kingswells war memorial (close-up of west elevation)
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 May 2020
0.05 miles
4
Looking along Old Skene Road, Kingswells
The church hall is visible beyond the hedge to the left.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 May 2020
0.06 miles
5
Kingswells war memorial...
...located just north of the parish kirk.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 May 2020
0.06 miles
6
Kingswells war memorial (close-up of north elevation)
The north face of the memorial lists officers, while the east and west faces list the 'men' who fell. Notable names are James Brooke VC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anson_Otho_Brooke ) who was killed in action at Ypres in 1914 and his brother Henry Brooke who died in London in 1916 after being mortally wounded at the Somme.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 May 2020
0.06 miles
7
Kingswells Parish Church
View from Old Skeke Road. The building style is called "polygonal ragwork," see: http://www.kingswells.com/HISTORY/tabid/457/Default.aspx
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 Apr 2011
0.06 miles
8
Kingswells war memorial (close-up of east elevation)
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 May 2020
0.06 miles
9
Suburb in the countryside
The commuter suburb of Kingswells has a decent buffer of countryside separating it from some gritty suburbs of Aberdeen a couple of kilometres to the east. The gorse display in north east Scotland in the warm and dry spring of 2020 is intense...
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 May 2020
0.08 miles
10
Road into Kingswells
The road seems not to be named but has the designation C89C (thanks to Google Earth).
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 May 2020
0.08 miles