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Wallace Tower, Netherkirkgate
103 Wallace Tower in the Netherkirkgate looking towards St. Nicholas Church. The tower never had any connection with William Wallace. It is believed to have been the town residence of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. The name "Wallace" may have been a corruption of "well-house". The Wallace Tower was re-sited at Tillydrone in the 1960s.
Correspondent Ed Fowler suggests that the ornamental building shown on the left at the end of the Netherhirkgate, next to the horse and cart, is the Dyers' Hall.
The name refers to the Dyers' or Litsters Society who were once an important and wealthy industrial group in Aberdeen. Newspaper notices suggest the building was used as a public house, where societies regularly met, and that it, and other buildings, were demolished in around 1807 to make way for a new street between Union Street and Tannery Street. Wallace Tower, Netherkirkgate
112 Wallace Tower in the Netherkirkgate looking towards St. Nicholas Church. The tower never had any connection with William Wallace. It is believed to have been the town residence of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. The name "Wallace" may have been a corruption of "well-house". The Wallace Tower was re-sited at Tillydrone in the 1960s. Castlegate looking west
674 Drawing of Castlegate looking west along Union Street.
Correspondent Ed Fowler got in touch to point out the salient features of "the Plainstones, Mercat Cross in is original position with the Athenaeum Reading Room, Tolbooth, the New Inn (Freemasons Lodge) and the Aberdeen Bank at the top of Marischal Street.
It is one of set of 3 drawings by the same artist employed by Gibb's the Lithographer. The others being the Brig o' Dee, and the Nether Kirk Gate, Benholm Lodging." The Wallace Tower
731 Wallace Tower, Nether Kirkgate. Originally known as Keith's Lodgings, it was supposed to have been the home of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. After the construction of the Marks and Spencers store in George Street, the Wallace Tower was removed to a new site at Tillydrone (1965). Netherkirkgate
768 Wallace Tower, also known as Benholm's Lodging, Netherkirkgate. It is supposed to have been the residence, dating from 1610, of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. "Wallace" is believed to be a corruption of "well house". It is possible that the figure in the niche was an effigy taken from St. Nicholas Churchyard. The house was demolished and was rebuilt in 1964 overlooking Seaton Park at Tillydrone. The spire of St. Nicholas East Church, which was destroyed by fire in 1874, can be seen in the background. Wallace Tower
884 To the left can be seen the Wallace Tower, formerly known as Benholm's Lodging, in its original location at the junction of the Netherkirkgate and Carnegie's Brae. The Wallace Tower was a 15th century fortified house, the residence of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. For a large part of its life in the 20th. century, it functioned as a public house before being re-sited at Seaton Park, Tillydrone, in 1963. In the centre can be seen the clock tower of St. Nicholas Kirk. Wallace Tower
1275 Wallace Tower, Netherkirkgate (also known as Benholm's Lodging and Keith's Lodging) . In the background is the old East Church of St Nicholas, whose spire was destroyed by a fire on 9th October 1874 and rebuilt in 1876. Carnegie's Brae is at the left of the photograph. The building is now re-sited at Tillydrone. Wallace Tower
1286 Wallace Tower, Netherkirkgate. Originally known as Keith's Lodgings, it was supposed to have been the home of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. After the construction of the Marks and Spencers store in George Street, the Wallace Tower was removed to a new site at Tillydrone (1965). Wallace Tower, Netherkirkgate
26 Wallace Tower in the Netherkirkgate looking towards St Nicholas Church. The tower never had any connection with William Wallace. It is believed to have been the town residence of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. The name "Wallace" may have been a corruption of "well-house". The Wallace Tower was re-sited at Tillydrone in the 1960s. Netherkirkgate
102 Wallace Tower, also known as Benholm's Lodging, Netherkirkgate. It is supposed to have been the residence, dating from 1610, of Sir Robert Keith of Benholm. "Wallace" is believed to be a corruption of "well house". It is possible that the figure in the niche was an effigy taken from St. Nicholas Churchyard. The house was demolished and was rebuilt in 1964 overlooking Seaton Park at Tillydrone. The spire of St. Nicholas East Church, which was destroyed by fire in 1874, can be seen in the background. Wallace Tower
448 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." |