Bygone News - Dura Street http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/149/0 en Stobswell and Links to the Late Jim Reid http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/stobswell-and-links-late-jim-reid <p>The recent death of Dundee folk singer, Jim Reid, raised in the Stobswell area of the city, brought out a few references to his song " The Stobbie Parliament Picnic".</p> <p>The Stobbie Parliament were the old men who sat on a long bench just above Ogilvie church in the early years of the 20th century. They sat and blethered and, as the name suggests, set the world to right.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/stobswell-and-links-late-jim-reid"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Dura Street Mains Loan 1980's Football People Picnics / Outings Worthies Willie Coupar Stobswell Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:19:22 +0000 lynne.davidson 755 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Streets Now Gone http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/streets-now-gone <div class="content clear-block"> <p><span class='wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_right imgupl_styles_spacing_20_black_border\n\rBlack Border'><a href="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/scottfyffe.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/scottfyffe.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload imgupl_styles_spacing_20_black_border\n\rBlack Border imagecache imagecache-medium" style="" width="230" height="165" /></a> <span class='image_meta'></span></span>I was born in 1930, within a cottar-house on Milton of Craigie Farm, long gone, but B &amp; Q and ASDA are sited there. I think 1930 was the year of the darkest day in Dundee, when some people thought the end of the world had come.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/streets-now-gone"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Albert Street Dura Street Forfar Road Mains Loan 1930's Childhood Family Food and Drink Housing School Days Street Life Jean Craigie / Craigiebank Douglas Maryfield Mid Craigie Stobswell Whitfield Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:40:56 +0000 lynne.davidson 693 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk