November 1955
Raith Want United Player
Raith Rovers have approached United for the transfer of inside-right Jimmy Reid. Some week ago director Jimmy Gourlay came to Tannadice to watch Craig of Forfar Athletic. He finished up talking about Reid.No figure has been mentioned. If and when, United consider the matter a transfer fee will be discussed.
United have concentrated on building a local team and Reid is one of the boys they pin much faith on. He was recruited from St Josephs.
Get The New Local Directory
The Dundee Directory 1955/56
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Burns & Harris, Publishers, 112 Overgate, Dundee
Phone: 3091
A New Club
Local R.E.M.E. Association is to start again. Forty past and present members of the R.E.M.E. on Tuesday night decided to revive the R.E.M.E. Association in Dundee. The Association closed down five years ago.
The new club which will make use of the Territorial Army Centre, Rodd Road will lay stress on hobbies and handicrafts. The hobbies section will include making T.V. sets and other furniture. Brigadier F.A. Hibbert, a chairman of the former Association, was elected President.
Learn To Play The Guitar
Guitar tuition by post, Play by ear in six lessons. Send 5s now for the first lesson. Hundreds delighted.
B. Forbes, 1 Fairfield Road, West Ferry, Dundee.
Student Nursing
Kings Cross Hospital, Dundee:- Student Nurses:- Applications are invited from girls of 17 years or over for Preliminary Training School starting January 1956.
Full particulars of training, allowances, etc, may be had from Matron.
Golden Donation
Mr Ninian Gordon, 21, Glenprosen Terrace, Dundee has donated 52 pints of blood to the East of Scotland Blood Transfusion Service.
On Wednesday night in recognisition of his "output" he was presented with a gold badge by Dr Charles Cameron, Regional Director of the service and Vice-President of Dundee Blood Donors' Association, at the associations monthly meeting.
Chimney Sweeps
Sixty-six Chimney Sweeps in the city had licenses renewed by the magistrates on Wednesday. Three new licenses were granted.
No Wonder They Were Warm
Grand warm summers 60 odd years ago? And no wonder! I'm just looking at a photograph taken on a fine Friday 70 years ago. Flannel next to the skin, high neck dresses and no light weight tweeds or short skirts.
Yes, the summers would be very hot. The folk then assisted nature.
James F. Roy, York Place, Newburgh.
Edinburgh Wants These Pictures
Dundee Central Library's photographic collection includes over 5000 pictures of the city.
Two thousand negatives and prints were bequethed to the library in 1923 - the collection of Mr Alexander Wilson, an enthusiastic amateur photographer - some of them dating from 1870.
Only recently have many of these negatives been printed and so good are they that the National Buildings Record in Edinburgh has asked for copies of 100 of them because many of the scenes recorded have faded into history as the face of Dundee changes.
The library's collection is in the care of Mr David Crichton. Said he "Other towns are envious of our luck in having such a complete record. There are probably more old pictures in attics in Dundee. I wish instead of throwing them away, people would hand them into us."
Odeon - Cinema Listings
Odeon, Dundee ,Tel 85721.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - Cont. 5.50 pm
Stewart Granger & Jean Simmons In
Footsteps in The Fog (A).