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4195 A photograph showing a group of children enjoying the playground at Aberdeen Beach. Broad Hill can be seen in the background.
This playground was opened in June 1962 just north of the Beach Ballroom. It was described as "imaginative in design and practicable for providing maximum freedom". It was built in a horse shoe shape to resemble a miniature fishing village with swings, water chute, roundabout and paddling pool. There were also climbing nets, ropes and poles.
The playground was moved to a new site across Links Road at the Queen's Links in 1987 to make way for the new leisure centre.
This image likely dates from the 1970s. It comes from a collection of slides donated to Aberdeen City Libraries by Aberdeen City Council's publicity department. Aberdeen Beach
4203 A photograph showing a sizable crowd sitting on the grass watching a gig by local band The Bash Street Kids.
The concert appears to be taking place in front of the tennis courts on the Queen's Links recreational grounds. This was to the south, across Links Road, from the Beach Ballroom. This space would later be the site of the children's playground moved in 1987 to make way for the new leisure centre.
Aberdeen and North-East Bands Through the Decades (2021) by Hugh Falconer states that the Bash Street Kids, known as "The Bashers", started performing in 1978. Inspired by The Beano's cartoon characters and AC/DC, their frontman, Brian Crombie, often wore a cap and shorts. The band has continued to perform for over 40 years.
This image likely dates from the 1970s. It comes from a collection of slides donated to Aberdeen City Libraries by Aberdeen City Council's publicity department. Exhibition of the City Plan (Incoporating Housing, Health & Welfare) - Explanatory brochure
464 This is the front cover of an explanatory brochure that was made to accompany the public exhibition of the City Survey and Plan prepared for the Corporation of Aberdeen by W. Dobson Chapman & Partners, town planning consultants.
The exhibition, which also included exhibits by the Housing and Health & Welfare Departments, was held in the Music Hall from 6th to 27th July 1951. As indicated at the top of the cover, the exhibition was tied into the city's celebrations of the Festival of Britain that took place shortly afterwards, from 29th July to 11th August.
This brochure was produced by W. Dobson Chapman with text by Charles F. Riley. It was printed by the Aberdeen University Press. It measures 28 x 19 cm and has 36 pages.
The front cover features an aerial photograph looking up Union Street from Holburn Junction to the Castlegate. The back cover shows a section of a city model showing proposed plans for the same area. The model was created by J. B. Thorp, London.
The brochure has the following contents: Title page, Foreword by Lord Provost William D. Reid, Description of Exhibition of City Plan, Description of Exhibition of Housing, Description of Health & Welfare Exhibits and Description of Film Display.
It also features the following illustrations: Summerfield Residential Neighbourhood Unit Model Photograph, Tullos Industrial Estate Model Photograph, Colour Plate South Market Street, Colour Plate Sea Beach.
W. Dobson Chapman and Charles F. Riley published their proposals the following year as a large hardback volume entitled Granite City: A Plan for Aberdeen (1952). Copies of this volume are available to consult at Aberdeen City Libraries.
The city plan included a number of ambitious proposals that intended to be accomplished over the course of generations. |