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It's hip to be square, and as Aberdeen's Union Square Celebrates it's 2nd Birthday this month, I though I would blip part of the Guild Street frontage of it.
I know that in the city and surrounding areas there is still mixed feelongs about it, but I have admit I do like it.
Without sounding like an advert for the place, it really is makes for a very pleasant shopping trip, ( I avoided the word experience, as the word most definitely can be used in a positive and negative context.)
There is some argument that can be made that it has taken some shops away from Union Street, and therefore the life away from it also, but some stores in the Granite City's majestic mile have also closed due to economic reasons> shops like Esslemont and MacIntosh, House of Fraser and Virgin Records to name but 3.
Although, ironically, House of Fraser is opening a new shop in Union Square soon, a mere 20 or so years after the dept. store closed it's doors in the city. Only thing is that the new one is going to be a point for online type ordering goods. It will not hold stock in store. Seems pretty pointless to me.

I know some people who don't like Union Square, but have never been in it to judge it; they are just not happy that it is there. Well, as it is part of the railway station and the bus station, and apart from the car dropping off point, which is not at all well thought out, but would be better if the transport police actually enforced the no access rule, it is good, and a vast improvement on the old railway station.
The old station facade is still in place, but inside now, and well out of the way of the ravages of the North East weather. Anyway, time moves on, and if change didn't come, there would be no heritage to look back on.
For instance the Triple Kirks is an eyesore and a precarious building, but is a listed building, difficult to re-develope, and in my opinion should be torn down, especially when you see the plans for it.
Good news though regarding the E and M premises, or at least half of it, is that Jamie Oliver is opening a new restaurant in it next year.
Why is the reflection of the word "square" in the window the right way round and not mirror image or backwards or whatever? Don't ask me I am only the photographer, and the camera doesn't lie; Apart from a small bit of cropping, it has not been altered.
As an aside, on my lost language calendar today it gives a brilliant, old description for being intoxicated ( and that word itself is becoming obsolete),; The phrase is, " To have a nose to light candles." Ah, that is what can happen if you have more than a few yards of silk.