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Wallace Tower
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Wallace Tower

Historic Documents
David Oswald
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Wallace Tower
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Wallace Tower
This image was digitised from Artistic Aberdeen: A Sketch Book (1932) by W. S. Percy.

The book describes the scene as follows:

"Wallace Tower, an interesting and, by name, misleading corner in the Netherkirkgate. The building and the name are now given over to a public-house. The figure inset into the tower has nothing to do with William Wallace, who is commemorated in the city by a gigantic statue in front of His Majesty's Theatre. At one point this tower was known as Benholm's Tower, and the figure of a soldier with sword is thought to have been set up in the middle of the eighteenth century by John Niven, a tobacco and snuff manufacturer. On the left is Carnegie's Brae, leading to the East Green, the old main entrance to Aberdeen from the south."
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AW01_18
W. S. Percy
Aberdeen Local Studies
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