Guild Street, Aberdeen

{{Short description|Street in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom}}

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Guild Street is a main street in the city centre of Aberdeen, Scotland, close to the harbour.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vcuoDQAAQBAJ&dq=Guild+Street+architecture&pg=PT329|title=A City's Architecture: Aberdeen as 'Designed City'|first=William Alvis|last=Brogden|date=5 December 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781351962681|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://doriccolumns.wordpress.com/city-streets/1841-street-directory/guild-street/|title=Guild Street|date=21 November 2016}}

Historic buildings

Her Majesty's Opera House opened in 1872.Guild Street, Aberdeen The listed building of the reopened Tivoli Theatre, Guild Street drill hall, and the Staton Hotel{{HEScotland|num=LB20663|desc=78 AND 80 GUILD STREET, THE STATION HOTEL}} are on the street. The Custom House,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1626183/aberdeen-city-centre-office-block-to-be-transformed-into-hotel/|title=Aberdeen city centre office block to be transformed into hotel|first=Jon|last=Hebditch|date=7 December 2018 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1717073/developers-ditch-hotel-plan-for-historic-aberdeen-building-in-favour-of-flats/|title=Developers ditch hotel plan for historic Aberdeen building in favour of flats|first=Kirsten|last=Robertson|date=8 April 2019 }} 2 Guild Street{{Cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200399603-52a-market-street-and-2-guild-street-aberdeen|title=52a Market Street and 2 Guild Street, Aberdeen, Aberdeen|first=Good|last=Stuff|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}} and 50, 52, 54 Guild Street{{Cite web|url=https://www.lippe-architects.co.uk/architecture/conservation/50-54-guild-street|title=Lippe Architects|website=Lippe Architects}}{{Canmore|num=175799|desc=Aberdeen, 50, 52, 54 Guild Street, Guild Street Buildings}} are noted.

Transportation

Guild Street has Aberdeen railway station and one of the two entrances to Aberdeen bus station on it. Alongside these is the site of the former Aberdeen Guild Street railway station which became a goods station after the construction of the "joint" railway station (on the site of the present facility, which is itself the second building to house the "joint" station), but the former goods station has since been closed and demolished, leaving only some goods sidings behind the site.

From 1903 to 1931 the Aberdeen Corporation Tramways ran through Guild Street en route to Torry.{{Cite web|title=The Silver City Vault::Zoom Item|url=http://www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ZoomItem&i=96171&WINID=1506588893769|access-date=2020-08-03|website=www.silvercityvault.org.uk}}

Union Square

Guild Street is home to Union Square Aberdeen, the second biggest shopping centre in Scotland. Built on top of the old Guild Street railway yards and goods station, the centre opened in 2009{{Cite web|url=https://www.rias.org.uk/for-the-public/practices/bdp-glasgow/union-square-aberdeen-aberdeen|title=Union Square, Aberdeen|website=www.rias.org.uk}} and cost £250 million. The rear entrance of the Trinity Shopping Centre is also on the street.

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References

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External links

[http://www.mcjazz.f2s.com/GuildStreet.htm Guild Street]
[https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/7728/Aberdeen_planners_yield_to_high-rise_hotel_%26_student_accommodation.html Aberdeen planners yield to high-rise hotel & student accommodation : October 2018 : News : Architecture in profile the building environment in Scotland]

Category:Streets in Aberdeen