Bygone News - 50 to 75 years ago
December 1960
More Tram Tracks to be Lifted
At the Works Committee a further contract, amounting to £110,094, was awarded to William Briggs and Sons, Ltd, for the lifting of a further two miles of tram track. Read more......
November 1960
Mass Grave Found in Nethergate
The remains of hundreds of bodies - believed to have been victims of the Siege of Dundee in 1651- have been disinterred in Nethergate.
The skeletons, mostly in separate skulls and bones were about three feet down in the trench evacuated along the frontage of the City Churches. The trench is to hold a new water main necessary under the central redevelopment scheme. Read more......
October 1960
Honours for Dundee Lads?
Bobby Cox is odds on for left-back, if he is fit. Let's hope he will be. Ronnie Yeats and Ian Ure first and second favourite for centre-half. Alan Gilzean has a good chance of making at least the reserve team as an inside-left. Read more......
September 1960
A Law Walk in Fancy Dress
A walking race to the top of the Law has been fixed for Saturday, October 22. Competitors will wear fancy dress, and the race will start and finish at Dundee Repertory Theatre. Read more......
August 1960
We're Going to Be Counted
Next April there will be a general census all over the country, and already plans are being made for it in Dundee.
The registrars will be responsible for the arrangements and they can't simply pull out the file for 1951 and work from that. Read more......
July 1960
Dundee Air Service
A regular air service between Dundee, Liverpool and London will start on October 10 - provided the Air Ministry Advisory Council gives the all clear. Starways, Ltd., a Liverpool airline, have made an application to run the service. Where the planes will land has not yet been finalised, but it will either be Leuchars or Errol. Read more......
June 1960
Ten Tremendous Years in Jute
According to the British Jute Trade Federal Council, output per worker in Dundee's yarn spinning industry has risen by 61 per cent in the past 10 years. Read more......
May 1960
Lord Provost McManus
The appointment as Lord Provost of ex- Bailie Maurice McManus was confirmed at last night's meeting of Dundee Corporation. Lord Provost McManus, ex-miner, and now sales representative with the Hydro-Electric Board is 54 and a grandfather. He and his wife, Lillian, have three sons, two daughters and two grandchildren. He is a Roman Catholic. Read more......
April 1960
New Lifeboat for Broughty
A new 47-foot Watson lifeboat, driven by two 60 h.p. engines, which is now being built at Littlehampton, Sussex, has been allocated to the Broughty Ferry lifeboat station. Lifeboats of this type now cost £35,000 each. The name of the new lifeboat has not yet been chosen. Read more......
March 1960
Service at Wishart Arch
By the light of a single street lamp the Rev D.P. Thomson conducted a memorial service at the Wishart Arch, Dundee on Tuesday night on the anniversary of the death of George Wishart. One of the leaders of the Reformation in Scotland, Wishart was burned for heresy at St Andrews on March 1, 1540. Read more......