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Hardweird
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This image was digitised from <i> Artistic Aberdeen: A Sketch Book</i> (1932) by W. S. Percy. The book describes the scene as follows: "Hardweird, a curiously-named part of older Aberdeen, lies north-westward and parallel with Skene Street. The name can be traced to any certain extent only from the Hardweird Croft. At the junction of Hardweird and Denburn once stood one of the famous wells of the town, St. John's Well, which, on the building of Rosemount Viaduct in 1883, was moved and reconstructed. At one time this part of the town was a series of crofts. A remaining example of the forestairs to the old houses is an interesting feature of the drawing." The tower in the background on the left is likely that of the Bon-Accord United Free Church on Rosemount Viaduct. The pyramidal spire to the right of the skyline will be that atop the tenement at 46 Rosemount Viaduct. This suggests that the dwellings shown here are those that stood on the north side of Hardweird, between it and Upper Denburn. This sketch looks north-northeast.
This image was digitised from
Artistic Aberdeen: A Sketch Book
(1932) by W. S. Percy.
The book describes the scene as follows:
"Hardweird, a curiously-named part of older Aberdeen, lies north-westward and parallel with Skene Street. The name can be traced to any certain extent only from the Hardweird Croft. At the junction of Hardweird and Denburn once stood one of the famous wells of the town, St. John's Well, which, on the building of Rosemount Viaduct in 1883, was moved and reconstructed. At one time this part of the town was a series of crofts. A remaining example of the forestairs to the old houses is an interesting feature of the drawing."
The tower in the background on the left is likely that of the Bon-Accord United Free Church on Rosemount Viaduct. The pyramidal spire to the right of the skyline will be that atop the tenement at 46 Rosemount Viaduct. This suggests that the dwellings shown here are those that stood on the north side of Hardweird, between it and Upper Denburn. This sketch looks north-northeast.
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AW01_12
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W. S. Percy
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Aberdeen Local Studies
Aberdeen Local Studies
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