Bygone News - Hugh G.C. Macdougall http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/628/0 en Pigs in Blackness Library http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/pigs-blackness-library <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/5/Perth%20Road%2C%20Sinderins.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title="Blackness Library"><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/Perth%20Road%2C%20Sinderins.png" alt="" title="Blackness Library" 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 have read that Blackness Library is celebrating its centenary this year and that members and former members are being invited to offer special memories associated with the library. I have one incident with which I was directly linked and which caused something of a surprise at the library in the 1940s. Whether anyone else still linked to the area remembers it I am not sure, but I believe it was the talk of the Sinderins at the time.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/pigs-blackness-library"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Blackness Avenue Perth Road 1940's Animals Childhood Hugh G.C. Macdougall Blackness Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:26:06 +0000 lynne.davidson 1080 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk