Bygone News - Forfar Road http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/180/0 en 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 Monkey Business http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/monkey-business-0 <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/lasttram_daveb_0.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/lasttram_daveb_0.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>While travelling with my mother, (I would have been about 10) on a tram, a photographer with his monkey boarded the our tram and sat down opposite us. All of a sudden the monkey leapt onto my mother's lap, it was funny, until the monkey did the toilet on my mother's tweed skirt, which was part of a suit (very hard to afford a suit back then).<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/monkey-business-0"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Forfar Road 1950's Trams Helen Smith Fintry Maryfield Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:38:50 +0000 lynne.davidson 666 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk