RETRO DUNDEE

That's me done. My wee offbeat look back at what life was like for my generation growing up in Dundee during the 1960's - 1970's - 1980's has now reached journeys end and so I'm away to...

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I was originally planning on doing Retro Dundee for around 2 years, that being how long I thought I would be able to post items regularly based on the amount of material I had in my collecti...

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Many of you will have had a Viewmaster as a kid, the plastic toy binoculars you put card discs into to view 3D images. Probably not so many of you had one of these gizmo's above - a slide view...

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A couple of publications I'd have been lost without during the course of doing Retro, were the old Dundee Directories and old street maps. The directories have been particularly useful b...

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I've put dozens & dozens of local ads up on Retro over the years which have been really useful when referring to a place I don't have any photos of. There are quite a lot of old publicat...

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It doesn't look particularly wintery, but these photos were taken on 19th December 1963. The square is located between Aboyne Avenue running along the top, and Huntly Road at...

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1978 saw Dundee University win TV's "University Challenge". The winning team above for the 77/78 series were - Tom McGhee - Isabel Morgan - Alistair Thomson - Enid Anderson. I'm fairly sur...

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Now some pages from a 1981 Craigie High School magazine. This issue covers the period from the end of 1980 to the beginning of 1981, and because 1980 was the 10th anniversary of...

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A few more pages to read from the 1989 Linlathen's High Times mag. Some of the contents include a visit to Gordonstoun, word about art classes, a new photo club, charit...

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A little glimpse into what was going on at Linlathen High School in November 1988 with a dip into a few pages of their school publication, High Times. Front page headline tells of ...

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3 shots here that'll make you want to snuggle up in front of a coal fire - all from the 70's, and maybe even the same winter. Not sure if the guy in the top image is someone in partic...

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Continuing with the fuel theme (minus coal) here's a few bits & pieces from the past you may remember. First up is a 1968 photo of the Shell & BP Scotland depot down at the Stan...

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So the coal lorry on yesterdays photo got me raking around for a few related items, because many of us who were brought up in the 60's/70's had coal fires or relatives who did. ...

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Here's a nice gritty urban scene looking along North Ellen Street towards a rather intimidating Jamaica Tower. This place, as most of you will know, is called "Faces Land", with the housing on...

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After a wee flurry sampling some of the gastronomic delights from around the eastern side of the globe - it's time to get back to a few of our own homely spots in town who s...

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The top 2 ads are for Don Quixote, the Spanish restaurant in Blackness Road. First is dated 1981 and 2nd is from 1984. The reason I put both up was because in the 81 ad it mentions ...

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Here's 5 local ads offering a variety of tasty grub from the East that I'm sure many of you will be familiar with. Starting off at The Far East in Mains Loan. This was their Chr...

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I suppose students could have gone straight from their days stint at Kingsway Tech and popped down to the Pizza Gallery in Peter Street pend to take advantage of the discounts they had on offer...

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Thought I'd pop this picture up of trainee chefs trying out their recipes over at Kingsway Technical College, sometime around the early/mid 80's - just on the off chance that one of you can spo...

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If you backtrack to 24th October 2011 when I posted 3 pictures from around the Cowgate, you'll be able to see many of the buildings that were in these settings in 1970, just before demolit...

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Another group of photos from the early 70's showing the demolition around Victoria Road. Top picture is of the upper area of the Vicky. 2nd image, from the edge of the crater, wa...

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A couple of interesting photos showing the back of the buildings along Victoria Road. You may recall a similar view of this section of the Vicky I posted back in November 2010, but the ...

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Well Peter Ustinov may have written a play called "Halfway Up A Tree", but halfway up this tree was a strange fruit that I mentioned on Retro back in April - plastic Jif lemons! We weren't hal...

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Here's a fine shot of Peter Ustinov having a wee chuckle to himself in the Nethergate. The 2 shops in the background are the Civil Service Stores and Patterson's shoe shop. Peter Ustinov was ...

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No idea if the Wellgate Library still looks the same these days, but this is how things were back in the 1980's. Top image is of the Childrens Library - and judging by the pencil case...

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