Bygone News - Church Street

Memories of Dundee - Part Seven

lynne.davidson — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:01:25 +0000

1939 was also a remarkable year for me personally. My parents were Good Templars, i.e they did not drink alcoholic beverages and were staunch members of the Independent Order of Good Templars in Dundee or simple âthe Lodgeâ as they termed it, since every branch was a lodge with a particular name and number. My first recollections are of them being members of Camperdown Lodge, which met on a Saturday evening in Camperdown Masonic Hall which was situated in a corner of a square, up an outside stair from which access was gained by way of a pend in Barrack Street. However this closed, due to lack of members in 1938. My parents them transferred their allegiance to Rescue Lodge which met on a Tuesday evening in St Salvadorâs church hall in Church Street. There were other lodges which met on other evening's throughout the city; The Home of Peace, The Pioneer of Peace and The Perseverance are the ones I remember. Read more......

Memories of Dundee - Part Six

lynne.davidson — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:47:28 +0000

The year 1939 was memorable for a number of reasons. First of all there was the Mrs Jordan sensation. Of course it didnât mean very much to me at the time, but I can understand now how big a thing it must have been. Read more......

Culture Shock

lynne.davidson — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:47:22 +0000

We moved to Church Street and then in 1929 to Dens Road. Dens Road School was across the road and I started at the nursery class there when I was three and a half years old and then started at the 'big school' at four and a half. This is me in Miss Barrie's infant class in 1930. Dens Road was a great school and I was there from three and a half years old to nine years old. Read more......