Timeless Trail: Queens Road

Aberdeen city centre has a remarkable selection of sculptures, as featured in Aberdeen City Council’s Sculpture and Curios Trail

The below can be found on Albyn Place or Queens Cross, in the city’s handsome West End.

A grey statue of Queen Victoria in a long flowing dress holding a sceptre


A bronze statue of Queen Victoria, by Charles Bell Birch (1893). It is mounted on a pink granite plinth. Note: the statue is in the middle of a very busy roundabout

A low well surrounded by brick, with a knightly cross in the brickwork and an inscription in Latin.


St John’s Well (Albyn Place) is named after the Knights of St John.

A blue sculpture of an anchor with maritime pictures painted on it, including a lighthouse, an oil rig and seagulls.


An anchor sculpture by local artist Moira Milne.

The Rubislaw Terrace Gardens Fountain dates from 1971 when it was installed to celebrate Aberdeen’s multiple Britain in Bloom awards. The granite sculpture was added in the 1990s by artist Susan Jennifer Ball.

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