Bygone News - Rosebank Street http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/488/0 en Boy on the Bike http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/boy-bike-0 <p><span class='wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_right 0'><a href="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title="Princess Cinema"><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" alt="" title="Princess Cinema" class="imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload 0 imagecache imagecache-medium" style="" width="230" height="165" /></a> <span class='image_meta'></span></span></p> <p>I note the photograph of the Princess Cinema, I am the laddie on the bike, the photo taken by someone from D.C. Thomson about May 1959. I lived at 88, Hawkhill from 1951-53 and went to Tay Street School. Them moved away to Paisley. Came back in 1958 and lived in Rosefield Street. My mum had a second hand shop and a cafe in Brook Street, bottom of Larch Street. I remember playing in the high landie. Only remember one person from Tay Street School, a lass called Ella McGuiken who loved in Park Row until about 1960. She was a bonnie dancer.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/boy-bike-0"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Hawkhill Larch Street Perth Road Rosebank Street Tay Street Buildings/Structures Childhood Cinema / Theatre Michael Butler Hawkhill Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:05:47 +0000 lynne.davidson 1294 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Boy on the Bike http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/boy-bike <p><span class='wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_right 0'><a href="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title="Princess Cinema"><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" alt="" title="Princess Cinema" class="imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload 0 imagecache imagecache-medium" style="" width="230" height="165" /></a> <span class='image_meta'></span></span></p> <p>I note the photograph of the Princess Cinema, I am the laddie on the bike, the photo taken by someone from D.C. Thomson about May 1959. I lived at 88, Hawkhill from 1951-53 and went to Tay Street School. Them moved away to Paisley. Came back in 1958 and lived in Rosefield Street. My mum had a second hand shop and a cafe in Brook Street, bottom of Larch Street. I remember playing in the high landie. Only remember one person from Tay Street School, a lass called Ella McGuiken who loved in Park Row until about 1960. She was a bonnie dancer.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/boy-bike"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Hawkhill Larch Street Perth Road Rosebank Street Tay Street Buildings/Structures Childhood Cinema / Theatre Michael Butler Hawkhill Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:00:17 +0000 lynne.davidson 1293 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Memories of Dundee - Part Six http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/memories-dundee-part-six <div class="content clear-block"> <p>The year 1939 was memorable for a number of reasons. First of all there was the Mrs Jordan sensation. Of course it didn’t mean very much to me at the time, but I can understand now how big a thing it must have been.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/memories-dundee-part-six"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Church Street Kinloch Street Rosebank Street 1939-1945 War Years Walter Blacklaw Hilltown Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:47:28 +0000 lynne.davidson 761 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk