Castlegate, Aberdeen

Castlegate bụ obere mpaghara Aberdeen, Scotland, nke dị na etiti na nstụtụ mmalite nke isi okporo ụzọ obodo Union Street .  N'ikwu okwu n'ozuzu, ndị obodo na-ewere ya ka ọ gbasasịrịሕ ahụ na njedebe nke Union Street ebe Mercat Cross na Gallowgate dị.

Aberdeen's Mercat Cross
The Castlegate na Union Street (c.1900)

Na nsatọ elu nke Castlegate ka e guzoro The Salvation Army Citadel, nnukwu ụlọ nwere nnukwu ụlọ arụrụ arụ, na saịtị nke Aberdeen Castle mgbe ochie.  Akpọrọ aha Castlegate aha ebe ọnụ ụzọ ụlọ elu ahụ ruo mgbe ebibiri ha na 1308.

Ọ bụ John Montgomery, onye na-ese ụlọ ụlọ, wuru Aberdeen's Mercat Cross na 1686. Ihe owuwu a mepere emepe, 21 ft (6 m) na dayameta na 18 ft (5 m) dị elu, bụ nnukwu ntọala hexagonal nke sitere na  etiti ya na-ebuli ogwe nwere isi obodo, nke bụ unicorn eze.  A na-achọ ntọala ahụ nke ọma, ihe nrite na-egosi ndị eze Scotland site na James I ruo James VII .  yere yere yere si kwuo, a na-ahụ ill nke unicorn ka ọ na-agba gburugburu Castlegate mgbe amụrụ zuru ezu ezu.

Ewubere na mbụ n'ihu Mercat Cross, ihe oyiyi George Gordon, 5th Duke nke Gordon, nke e wuru na 1844, bugara Golden Square na 1950s.[1]

N'yeel nke Castle Street bụ Castlehill Barracks, nke a kwaturu na 1965 wee jiri ihe ọmụmụ ụlọ ụlọ ọkụ ya.

The Gallowgate, dị nso na isi square, ka a na-akpọ aha mbụ saịtị nke osisi. Obere mpaghara nke ochie okporo ụzọ granite ka dị n'okporo ụzọ ụgbọ ala, n'akụkụ ụlọikpe, dị nnọọ ebe a na-eme nkwudo ọha.

N'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ, dị nso na nnukwu square, bụ Ọdụma Castlegate, nke anaghịzi eji. William Lindsay, onye na-akpụ ọla edo na-ahụ maka mmiri obodo n'oge ahụ, rụrụ obere ihe oyiyi ọla n'elu.

Ejiri Castlegate dị ka ọdụ ụgbọ ala maka ụgbọ Aberdeen Corporation Tramways na emesịa maka ụgbọ ala.[2]

Ntụaka

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  1. The Castlegate. The Silver City Vault. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved on 30 May 2012.
  2. "The Green is dead, long live Castlegate", Evening Express, 1980-04-24, pp. 12. Retrieved on 2022-04-14.

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