I’ve walked past this spot in Old Aberdeen more times than I can count… and somehow never really looked at it. This monument outside King’s College isn’t just decoration it’s a replacement tomb for William Elphinstone, the founder of the University of Aberdeen. The real tomb is inside the chapel, and this one was created later after the original was badly damaged. Once you stop and look, the details are incredible. The calm pose. The carved figures around the sides. The way it quietly tells a st

I actively look for hidden history in Aberdeen… and I still missed this. These cobbles are part of Huxter Row, a long-lost Aberdeen street that existed here before Union Street was even built. First recorded in 1440, Huxter Row began life as Boothraw a street of rented trading booths and later became a busy hub of everyday city life. Tailors, printers, shoemakers, grocers and taverns once lined this street. It sat close to the old Town House and was part of a lively, working Aberdeen, full of pe

I had no idea this was open to the public. Tucked away in Old Aberdeen, King’s College Chapel is one of those places that stops you in your tracks the second you step inside. Built over 500 years ago, the chapel quietly holds so many layers of history from medieval woodwork carved by students centuries ago, to the names of former students who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars, carefully remembered on the walls. There’s something incredibly grounding about standing in a space th

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