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Green Spirit Hydroponics
Location: Castlegate
Artist: Phlegm
Shop Shutters of the former Green Spirit Hydroponics store on Castlegate.
Aberdeen Castle Gate Mercat Cross built in 1686. A mercat cross is a Scots name for the market cross found in many Scottish cities.
Picture of Hole 11 from CastleGate Minigolf in New Jersey. See our review at www.theputtingpenguin.com
BOUNCING BACK 27th February - 22nd March
This is a celebration of Cockermouth and its people.
Paintings by Peter Quinn
Photographs from Local People
30 minute film footage of the floods and aftermath
Please note the gallery will be open daily during this exhibition except Thursdays and Sundays.
Aberdeen Castle Gate Mercat Cross built in 1686. A mercat cross is a Scots name for the market cross found in many Scottish cities.
Fairfax House, Castlegate, York, 1755-62.
By John Carr of York (1723-1807).
For Viscount Fairfax of Emley.
Grade l listed.
Richard Temple (1675-1749), 1st Viscount Cobham.
John Closterman (1660-1711) (attributed to).
Oil on canvas, c1700.
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Fairfax House is a triumph of Georgian design. Bought by Charles Gregory, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, for £2000 in 1759, he employed master architect John Carr of York to transform the existing building into a magnificent and fashionable townhouse. Lord Fairfax gifted the house to his sole surviving child making Anne Fairfax a property-owning woman in her own right.
Here both Anne and her Father spent the winter season. Standing on the thriving street of Castlegate, the main thoroughfare to York Castle, and sitting on the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss, Fairfax House was at the very centre of York’s polite society and perfectly positioned as a base from which to enjoy York’s burgeoning city-life and social scene.
Picture of Hole 10 from CastleGate Minigolf in New Jersey. See our review at www.theputtingpenguin.com
Aberdeen Castle Gate Mercat Cross built in 1686. A mercat cross is a Scots name for the market cross found in many Scottish cities.
Picture of Hole 15 from CastleGate Minigolf in New Jersey. See our review at www.theputtingpenguin.com
In the Castlegate, the Aberdeen Mercat Cross was built in 1686 by John Montgomery, a local mason, at the cost of £100. A large hexagonal base for a vertical post topped with a white unicorn. The base is highly decorated, illustrating ten of the Stewart monarchs; namely James I to James V, Mary Queen of Scots, James VI, Charles I and II, and James VII.
The Mercat Cross was the site of public punishments, and Royal proclamations.