Here St Nicholas Street (right) meets Union Street (left), the city's main street. St Nicholas Street was once a busy through road but is now a cul-de-sac following the building of a shopping mall, St Nicholas Centre, on its course. Link
The terra cotta statue on Simpson's building for the 'North of Scotland Bank' (1839-42) was by his friend James Giles, and was in appreciation of agricultural improvement in the northeast. It is a representation of the Greek 'mother-earth' goddess Demeter (adopted as Ceres in later Roman mythology).