A little while back, we
wrote a post about the stones which were to have become guard herald lions, standing proud on the parapets of the King George VI bridge on Great Southern Road.
The project having been interrupted by the Second World War, three of the stones now languish lugubriously in the Sculpture Garden at Hazlehead Park.
We walked past the fourth 'lion' the other day.
Aberdeen Civic Society used the stone to create a memorial to
Archie 'Pech' Simpson, iconic Architect of Aberdeen. The memorial sits in the central island of Bon Accord Square, at the heart of Simpson's neo-Grecian vision for the rational development of Aberdeen.
 |
ARCHIBALD SIMPSON
ARCHITECT 1790-1847
A PIONEER OF CIVIC DESIGN IN THIS HIS NATIVE CITY |
 |
Aberdeen Civic Society
April 1975 |
Guarded by a ring of steel in the form of parked cars, moss growth on the flagstones shows that this spot is seldom visited by those on foot.
 |
The other three stones in situ at
Hazlehead Park |
No comments:
Post a Comment