I’m sure I’ve shared images of this stained glass window before, but I took a new pic this morning so it’s always worth sharing again!
Our local hospital has one big main entrance funneling everyone into the building that leads down a wide corridor, and at the T-junction end of that corridor, where you can either turn right for the single-storey outpatients clinical area or left for the seven-storey main inpatients block, is this lovely artwork called ‘Four Seasons’.
The locked door leads out to a small inner courtyard and sadly access is for maintenance staff only, but nevertheless it’s still a Thursday Door! 🙂
Stonehaven Lifeboat Station doors for this week’s Thursday Doors . This brand new station was opened earlier this year, although there has been a history of lifesaving in Stonehaven in various buildings and boats since 1854 🙂
The double doors to our friends’ rented holiday lodge that open out on to the raised wooden decking, and the open doorway to the enclosed garden pod that sits on the patio by the lodge.
There’s also a hot tub next to the garden pod, but that has a cover and steps, not doors – still, I included a pic anyway! 🙂
Yeah OK, so it’s a Friday Door rather than a Thursday Door, but it’s A-Z month so I’m bending the rules a bit – and it seems Dan’s having a week off, so I suppose that makes me even more of a rule-bending rebel 🙂
This big grey ugly box of a shed at the local marina nevertheless has pretty impressive giant sliding doors – presumably tall enough to fit the deep hulls of the type of boats that use the nearby canal. The smaller people-sized doors at each side of the giant doors give a good indication of size 🙂
Three portrait-orientation doors for this week’s Thursday Doors – a decorative gate in a lighted doorway, a red post box door, and a very rusty heavy metal door at the harbour entrance 🙂
When we were in Aberdeen last week I was keen to take some pics of Marischal College, which is another of the instantly recognisable city landmarks I remember so well from childhood.
This grand Victorian building was built from 1835 onwards, and is apparently the second largest granite building on the world. It was originally built as a university building, on the site of multiple previous university buildings going as far back as 1593, but with the gradual expansion and eventual relocation of Aberdeen University, since the early 21st Century it has instead provided dedicated office space for the headquarters of the City Council.
I remember it being much duller in colour (as in perpetually darkened by sooty city grime), but thankfully relatively recent refurbishment has cleaned up the silvery sparkling granite stone beautifully, showing it off at its best.
Ideally I’d have liked to have taken a sweeping vista from along the street showing off the entire frontage, but there was a seasonal ‘Christmas Village’ in the process of being constructed along the roadway directly in front and also to the side of the building, so the whole area apart from access to the actual entrance itself was temporarily closed off to the public while preparations were being made.
Still, I’ve captured the main entrance in the first shot, and the entire edifice above looking upwards in the second. The third shot is showing the myriad pinnacles that adorn the top of the building, which give a very over-the-top fancy finish to an otherwise solid construction.
The final shot is taken just around the corner from the college, at what will be one entrance to the Christmas Village – you can see the beginnings of the spires of Marischal College showing in the background on the far right 🙂
I’m back from my short visit to Aberdeen, we really enjoyed our few days’ break away but it’s nice to be home again!
I didn’t take a ton of pics, it’s a dull November in the North of Scotland so it gets dark really early and anyway it’s not the most photogenic time of year for scenery shots, plus I only had my phone with me.
Still, I found a couple of Thursday Door shots to take down by the harbour that give a typically urban grunge feel 🙂
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