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The food court in Falcon Mall is home to The Falcon's Return, a statue depicting James IV of Scotland holding a falcon, as James IV was one of Scotland's celebrated Falconers. The statue also celebrates the name of the Falcon Ironworks that originally stood on the site of the Eastgate expansion, which gave its name to Falcon Square.
The Artist's Cottage, Farr, Inverness. Front elevation detail showing a vertical chimney stack, left, window ingoe in smooth render, centre, and angle of batter, right. The actual batter is 1.5 degrees but, because of the geometry of inclined planes intersecting, this can increase to 2.5 degrees depending upon the angle of view.
The station is located between three roads in the city centre - Falcon Square, Academy Street and Strothers Lane. It is a 2-minute walk from the Eastgate Shopping Centre, and approximately 8 minutes from Inverness Castle and the Museum & Art Gallery. A taxi rank is located on the corner of Academy Street and Falcon Square. [14]
Falcon Square (2001), Inverness, Scotland New Paintings for Modern Times (2004–2009): a series of work drawn from the Gulf war and modern media The Spirit of Rugby – Line-Out (2010), sculpture group at Twickenham Rugby Stadium, London [ 12 ]
Upload another image Old Edinburgh Court and Archway At Entrance, Old Edinburgh Road 57°28′07″N 4°12′56″W / 57.468588°N 4.215421°W / 57.468588; -4.215421 (Old Edinburgh Court and Archway At Entrance, Old Edinburgh Road) Category B 35338 Upload another image Cameron Barracks, Perth Road 57°28′55″N 4°12′16″W / 57.481844°N 4.204513°W / 57.481844 ...
Inverness (/ ˌ ɪ n v ər ˈ n ɛ s / ⓘ; Scots: Innerness; [5] from the Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Nis [iɲɪɾʲˈniʃ], meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000. [6] It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council [7] and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands.
The first tolbooth in the town, referred to as the "Steeple of Inverness" dated back to at least 1593. After a new stone bridge was built across the River Ness in 1685, prison cells were accommodated in the spandrels of the bridge and offices for civic officials were accommodated in the East Gatehouse to the bridge, leaving the old tolbooth underutilised.
"The Square Mile" – reference to the area of the City. [114] Both these terms are also used as metonyms for the UK's financial services industry, traditionally concentrated in the City of London. London "The Great Wen" – disparaging nickname coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England ...