This image shows the street from the property shop of Gavin Bain & Co., a law firm, at no. 432, on the corner of Chapel Street, along to James & George Collie's property shop at no. 450.

In 2024, Gavin Bain & Co., along with Taggart Meil Mathers, merged with Burnett Reid, another local law firm.

Diane Morgan states that 432 had previously been the premises of Sim the Furrier, Jaffa Furs, and FastFrame (<i>The Granite Mile</i>, p. 175).

At 434 in this image is the women's clothing boutique Sirene. It opened in approximately 2013 and was the company's second store after one in Brighton that first opened in 2002.

Prior to Sirene, this had been the location of Falck Nutec's Offshore Training Portal. Further back in time, the building housed a shop called Abode that sold Mexican artefacts and before that it was clothing shop.

438-442 is the larger, ornate tenement towards the centre of this photograph. Morgan, describing the building as "handsome" and "timeless", notes its "interesting pilasters which shoot upwards in an attempt to become chimney pots".

From 1992 to approximately 2018, 438-442 was owned and occupied by Bryant Personal Services and Bryant Engineering. They acquired and redeveloped the substantial building in around 1992 (<i>Press & Journal</i>, Business Journal, 09/09/1992, p. 1). Prior to Bryant, the building had housed a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

This image shows the ground floor as latterly occupied by Fit & Skin Studio, a fitness and beauty clinic. This business operated at the location from around 2020 to 2024.

Nos. 446-450, shown here vacant, was a small branch of the Co-operative supermarket until 2014. It then had successive short spells as a Costcutter and Greggs outlet. Window decals from the former are visible in this image.

A 1936 photograph on this website (T03_20) shows this ground floor occupied by John Raffan, shoe fitting specialists, at 446 and Dugan & Mitchell, clothiers, at 448.

The shop of James & George Collie, with Aberdeen Music Lessons above, on the far left is part of a block extending to the corner of Rose Street. Diane Morgan suggests these two cottages served as "model houses" while Union Place was being developed in the early 19th century.

The ground floor was previously occupied by Bean's, with a sandwich bar on the right, later the site of James & George Collie, and a coffee and wine bar on the left. The latter became the site of a Caffè Nero coffee shop in around 2008.

Morgan indicates that Archibald McKellar, a family grocer who sold whisky and "medicinal wines", was a historic occupant and it was later a branch of Burberry.

A photograph by Roddy Millar, taken 17/07/2024, from a series surveying the architecture of the north side of Union Street.

This image shows the street from the property shop of Gavin Bain & Co., a law firm, at no. 432, on the corner of Chapel Street, along to James & George Collie's property shop at no. 450.

In 2024, Gavin Bain & Co., along with Taggart Meil Mathers, merged with Burnett Reid, another local law firm.

Diane Morgan states that 432 had previously been the premises of Sim the Furrier, Jaffa Furs, and FastFrame (The Granite Mile, p. 175).

At 434 in this image is the women's clothing boutique Sirene. It opened in approximately 2013 and was the company's second store after one in Brighton that first opened in 2002.

Prior to Sirene, this had been the location of Falck Nutec's Offshore Training Portal. Further back in time, the building housed a shop called Abode that sold Mexican artefacts and before that it was clothing shop.

438-442 is the larger, ornate tenement towards the centre of this photograph. Morgan, describing the building as "handsome" and "timeless", notes its "interesting pilasters which shoot upwards in an attempt to become chimney pots".

From 1992 to approximately 2018, 438-442 was owned and occupied by Bryant Personal Services and Bryant Engineering. They acquired and redeveloped the substantial building in around 1992 (Press & Journal, Business Journal, 09/09/1992, p. 1). Prior to Bryant, the building had housed a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

This image shows the ground floor as latterly occupied by Fit & Skin Studio, a fitness and beauty clinic. This business operated at the location from around 2020 to 2024.

Nos. 446-450, shown here vacant, was a small branch of the Co-operative supermarket until 2014. It then had successive short spells as a Costcutter and Greggs outlet. Window decals from the former are visible in this image.

A 1936 photograph on this website (T03_20) shows this ground floor occupied by John Raffan, shoe fitting specialists, at 446 and Dugan & Mitchell, clothiers, at 448.

The shop of James & George Collie, with Aberdeen Music Lessons above, on the far left is part of a block extending to the corner of Rose Street. Diane Morgan suggests these two cottages served as "model houses" while Union Place was being developed in the early 19th century.

The ground floor was previously occupied by Bean's, with a sandwich bar on the right, later the site of James & George Collie, and a coffee and wine bar on the left. The latter became the site of a Caffè Nero coffee shop in around 2008.

Morgan indicates that Archibald McKellar, a family grocer who sold whisky and "medicinal wines", was a historic occupant and it was later a branch of Burberry.

Location

Union Street

Keyword

Architecture

Photographer

Roddy Millar