Blacktop

This peculiar low long block is incorporated into a stone wall between fields outside Milltimber, an outer suburb of Aberdeen at its Western side. Whether this was its original purpose is unclear, though it was certainly used as a trough at some point judging by the blue pipes embedded within it. Could it have originally been a section of a long channel designed for water or blood and has been repurposed? Or was it specifically designed to hold water and maintained the water level by some clever cistern tank-like system? It would be interesting to know how long large metal water troughs have been around for at affordable prices. If this is an older version it holds a fraction of the water of today's ones.

Veterinary Hospital on the A944 at Kingswells.

Through arable fields, this track lead from Kingshill to Maryfield, a cottage now demolished.

Countesswells Road leads into Aberdeen at Seafield.

This week (w/c 12 March 2018) it was suggested the AWPR would be open this Summer.

The bridge carries the AWPR over the Wester Ord to Blacktop road

The public are apparently encouraged to stroll through the complex...

The A944 runs roughly east-to-west from Aberdeen to the village of Strathdon, some 81 km away: Link . Note the huge erratic granite boulder in the field behind the dry stane dyke, which was probably deposited by a glacier some 10-12,000 years ago.

The lodge is not listed and doesn't even merit a Canmore listing.

Aberdeen has been dithering for years over the pedestrianisation of Union Street but the coronavirus crisis of 2020 seems to have finally prompted some action.