King George VI.

Absolutely freeeezing today in Aberdeen - and when I left my office tonight the light was really wintery: golden but cold. M and I took a walk along the river Dee on the edge of Duthie Park and watched an fly fisher in the shallow water. He had bare hands and must have been really cold, but he was just concentrating on his cast and was really still in the water - a real shame he was standing in the shadows or he may have been my Blip tonight! Instead you have the King George VI Bridge. If you don't want the history, skip ahead now :o)

In the 1920s and 1930s, the development of Kincorth was visualised as a vast municipal housing scheme, so a new bridge over the Dee was needed to link it directly to the city. Recommendation was made in 1932 to proceed with the bridge and the foundation stone was laid by Lord Provost Watt on 15 September 1938. It opened in autumn 1940, having cost an estimated £151,543. The design was commended by the Royal Fine Arts Commission for Scotland.

M's great, great-granddad was the Lord Provost of Aberdeen (although not the one that opened this bridge) from 1911-1925 (Wikipedia has the wrong dates...) and he has a plaque on his former house, just up the road just up from where M and I live today. History lesson over, time to clean the flat for its viewing tomorrow...