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Gallery: Anderson Drive through the decades

By Callum Main
An aerial view looking south towards the Anderson Drive roundabout at Rosehill Drive and Provost Rust Drive. Hilton Court and Stewart Park Court multi-storey flats can been seen to the left of the roundabout. 12 July 1984.
An aerial view looking south towards the Anderson Drive roundabout at Rosehill Drive and Provost Rust Drive. Hilton Court and Stewart Park Court multi-storey flats can been seen to the left of the roundabout. 12 July 1984.

One of Aberdeen’s busiest arteries is Anderson drive.

The dual carriageway features in these images from our archives from the 1960s to the 1990s.

At the south end of Aberdeen, Alex Stewart of the Links and Parks Department gets behind a man-sized mower in August 1961 to give the grass on South Anderson Drive a smooth finish. 4 August 1961.
Roses still bloom in profusion on Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, the Britain in Bloom city. 6 October 1971.
The scene from Ruthrieston Bridge showing the dualling of South Anderson Drive, Aberdeen. 19 August 1972.
Police divert traffic at South Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, blocked to north-bound vehicles after an articulated lorry keeled over while negotiating the roundabout at Holburn Street. 10 May 1976
Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, at the junction with Great North Road. October 1977
Mr Ian Sproat and Margery Urquhart have problems trying to cross Anderson Drive at the junction of Cromwell Read, Aberdeen. Tory MP for South Aberdeen, Ian Sproat, and prospective candidate for Grampian Regional Council, Miss Margery Urquhart, paid a flying visit to the bust junction of Anderson Road and Cromwell Road today. 27 October 1978.
Regular crossing user Mrs Margaret Tosh of Woodhill Court, Aberdeen, steadies herself with a hand rail as she waits for a clear stretch to cross Anderson Drive for her bus. 12 October 1979.
Tackling the thorny problem are Aberdeen District Council leisure and recreation department empires Alan Findlay (left) and James Michie as they prune the roses on Anderson drive, Aberdeen. 10 March 1980.
Trees being felled on Anderson Drive, Aberdeen. 8 August 1984.
An aerial view looking south towards the Anderson Drive roundabout at Rosehill Drive and Provost Rust Drive. Hilton Court and Stewart Park Court multi-storey flats can been seen to the left of the roundabout. 12 July 1984.
Schoolgirl Joanne Brettle, of Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, walks her dogs Spruce and Kizzy, along the stretch of ring road where the council will be felling one row of trees on each side. 5 September 1984.
Nose to tail traffic on Anderson Drive this morning from the Kingsgate roundabout down the drive past the Queens Road roundabout. 30 October 1986.
Mrs Tait and her daughter, Donna, about to cross the traffic on the new pedestrian crossing on Anderson Drive, near Provost Fraser Drive. 5 October 1988.
Jeanie O’Halloran, of Logie Avenue, Aberdeen, stands beside North Anderson Drive with daughter Janey at the exact spot where the accident happened [5 April 1990], and also where little Janey was knocked down. 6 April 1990.
Residents of North Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, Mrs Alice Bailey (left) and Mrs Connie Reid, watch the traffic at the junction where they believe a fatal accident is inevitable. 27 May 1991.
Council workmen tend the roses in north Anderson Drive, Aberdeen. 11 March 1992.
Police on duty at the Westburn Road – Andersoin drive Junction in Aberdeen. 22 June 1992.
The No 1 bus negotiates the roundabout by the new flower baskets on Anderson Drive, Aberdeen. 29 July 1992.
Mrs Sheila Addison presses the button at the pedestrian crossing as her daughter, Rosline, prepares to cross North Anderson Drive with her toddler Jayson. 17 November 1992.
Buses, cars, motorhomes and lorries sit in a traffic jam on North Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, on the northbound carriage way. 28 July 1993.

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