Bygone News - 75 to 100 years ago
August 1932
The New Road
The Kingsway, Dundee's super road, is now completed from Arbroath Road at Strips of Craigie, to Coupar Angus Road beyond Lochee. This is not the end of it though, for it is to be continued right out over Liff Road to join the main Perth Road beyond Invergowrie. Read more......
July 1932
Cheaper Fares on the Fifie
Dundee Harbour Trustees, at a special meeting yesterday, agreed to make reductions in the Tay Ferries fares. The steamers are now very extensively used by hikers and cyclists and to encourage this traffic Sir William High Convener of Tay Ferries Company promulgated the scheme onf cheaper fares. Read more......
June 1932
Clever Display
There is no limit to ingenuity in advertising these days. By way of attracting attention to one of the latest popular melodies, a Dundee dealer has arranged a clever display in his shop window. An amiable old lady is depicted slumbering beside her fireside and every inch has been used to supply "atmosphere". She has an old fashioned gramophone and big tea caddies, while a brass clock hangs on the wall. As a final touch a copy of the "People's Journal" rests up on her lap. Read more......
May 1932
Busy Route
Maryfield and Perth Road people who are still wondering when their high speed trams are to come along will be interested in the traffic figures for the last ten months which have been issued by the Transport Department. Read more......
April 1932
Preparing For The Mills Observatory
The erection of the Mills Observatory on Balgay Hill, Dundee is to begin at an early date. At a meeting of the Works Committee of the Town Council on Thursday, a letter was read from Messrs Johnstone, Simpson and Thomson solicitors, intimating that the Observatory trustees intended to place the contracts for erection of the building during the forthcoming week. it is intended to push forward this work during the summer months. Read more......
March 1932
Fading Away
The Old Town House is rapidly fading away. The entire roof has been stripped and when all the shopkeepers have cleared out the work of demolition will proceed with even greater rapidity. Read more......
February 1932
Finest Steak Pies
Rough and Fraser's 2d pies are more popular than ever being filled with the finest steak mince. Try them for dinner or supper.
Rough and Fraser's, 17 Kinghorne Road, Dundee. Read more......
January 1932
New Gardening Guide
Dobbies, 1932 Catalogue and Gardening Guide, 184 pages, 226 illustrations. Free to all readers if this paper is mentioned. Dobbies & Co Ltd., The King's Seedmen, Edinburgh. Read more......
December 1931
City Murder Trial Fixed
Arrested after the shooting of his former sweetheart in a Dundee Street, James Pringle, the Perth taxi driver appeared before Sheriff Valentine at Perth on Saturday, charged with murder. Read more......
November 1931
Sir Harry Lauder in Dundee
A Busman's Holiday
Sir Harry Lauder has a busman's holiday in Dundee on Thursday night. In the Victoria Theatre he saw a musichall performance "from the front" and at the close pronounced it excellent. Read more......