Another fruit of our trip to Peterhead. The memorial in Aberdeen to the Gordon Highlanders. Situated on Castlegate site of the regiment’s original barracks, near the junction with Union Street.

Reverse view showing old style uniform and arms:-

Dedication. “The renowned regiment of the north east of Scotland 1794-1994. Erected by the city of Aberdeen, unveiled by HRH the Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, 15th October 2011”

Winston Churchill’s appreciation, “the finest regiment in the world”:-

This one’s in the east end of the city centre part of Argyle Street. I missed it last December but got a photo early last month. Superstructure and windows. Nice scrolling on the stonework and lovely stained glass but needing cleaned up methinks:-

Pity it’s so dilapidated. Close-up on the windows:-

At the bottom of Buchanan Street and on the corner of Argyle Street and St Enoch Square is what used to be Arnotts department store and is now a branch of Bank of Scotland.

Below is the Argyle Street elevation of HSBC. For Buchanan Street elevations see here.

Under the Hielanman’s Umbrella is this entrance to Glasgow Central Station:-

There is a similar entrance on the south side of the street. (Stitch of two photos.)

Below is the Argyle Street frontage of the Mackintoshed up building whose Union Street aspect I featured here. Again a stitch of two.

Art Deco style shop in Union Street, Glasgow:-

Detailing round the windows:-

The roofline has good touches:-

On the corner of Union and Argyle Streets lay the location of the famous meeting place known as “Boots’ corner” but Boots is long gone and this Union Street facade has now had “Mackintosh” embellishments added. Mockintosh, if you like:-

The detailing has typical Mackintosh square elements with sinuous biologically inspired lines:-

As do the window surrounds with the addition of also typical elongated rectangles:-

The elongated rectangles and sinuous lines are prominent in the bay window too:-

I can’t remember exactly which street this was in but it’s a fine building too, with hints of deco:-

While we were in Aberdeen we thought we’d have a look at the shops.

The main street, Union Street, had a couple of Art Deco frontages. I just photographed the upper portions as I couldn’t get back far enough to avoid pedestrians/traffic getting in the way and the lower bits were modernised glass anyway.

I most say deco looks a bit weird in granite.