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Lost Aberdeen: Aberdeen's Lost Architectural Heritage

by Diane Morgan

ISBN: 9781841583907
Imprint: Birlinn
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock

The initial chapters are an odyssey through the early town, from the Green to the Gallowgate, charting the disappearance of the irreplaceable medieval townscape. Moving on to more modern times she traces the evolution and gradual erosion of the Granite City, whose stylish yet restrained architecture once brought visitors from all over the world to see an Aberdeen which they recognised and valued as a unique city. She writes of George Street, originally planned as ‘an elegant entrance to the city’ and of Union Street, a marvel of early nineteenth century engineering with stunning symmetry, elegant terracing and memorable shops. There is also a requiem for Archibald Simpson’s splendid New Market and the sadly missed Northern Co-operative Society Arcade.

In Lost Aberdeen  Diane Morgan writes with the same fresh approach to local history that blends careful scholarship with high readability, and authority with humour that has made her ‘Villages of Aberdeen’ so successful a series.

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