Semi Detached Grandeur

Another lazy Blip today taken while I was heading out for a coffee. This is one of a pair of semi detached houses in St. Swithen Street, near Queen's Cross.

I am not sure when these were built, but it was a time when a little grandeur was put into even relatively modest domestic housing. Admittedly they lack the grandeur of some of the houses, mostly now offices, in nearby Queen's Road, but impressive nonetheless. As I took this I was also drawn to the terraced houses across the road, where the end house has a turret. They did things differently in those days, possibly roughly the turn of the twentieth century.

Very few houses in Aberdeen use granite nowadays, and even those that do, use it quite sparingly, a facade facing onto the street, replaced by something more mundane at the sides and rear of the building.

The weather has returned to being dull and overcast.Where is the Spring? It will have to be quite a short Spring as it will soon be summer. Maybe we will just not bother about Spring this year, and spring from Winter straight into Summer.