Bygone News - Shopping http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/100/0 en Memories of Polepark http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/memories-polepark <p>I was brought up in Polepark by my dad Frank Traynor and the lovely Ann and Bert Small who owned a little grocer shop at 16 Polepark Road. They took over the majority of my care after my mum sadly died when I was four years old.</p> <p>I have many happy memories of the jute workers who came into the shop and the actors from the Rep Theatre which was in the church at the top of Polepark. It was a lovely time to grow up and a caring way of life when people all looked after their neighbours. Ann and Bert Small ran a lovely wee shop and were kind to their customers.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/memories-polepark"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Polepark Road Childhood Family People Shopping Work / Working Life Ann Traynor (Small) Polepark Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:46:22 +0000 fiona.christison 1257 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk The Parrot http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/parrot <p>The parrot that sat on the milk crates outside Keillors shop at the bottom of the Blackie, the sledging down the brae from the Blackie to the burn, so many kids there we had to line up to get your turn. Great days, but we were all kids then, we didn't know about life then.The woman that sold puff candy across from St Joseph's school, that's just a wee bit of great memories.</p> Blackness Avenue Blackness Road Childhood Shopping May Jack Blackness Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:32:35 +0000 fiona.christison 1255 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk The Wellgate Clock http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/wellgate-clock <p>Crowds gather in anticipation<br />Showing their appreciation<br />The footman grinds the hurdy gurdy<br />In tuneful animation<br />A monkey turns to look around<br />Two bluebirds take their station - Almost midday<br />Precisely then - the clock becomes alive<br />Unicorn gallops and nods his head<br />To the cat's fiddling jive<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/wellgate-clock"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Poems / Poetry Shopping Anna MacDonald Wellgate Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:40:51 +0000 fiona.christison 1152 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk The City Arcade http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/city-arcade <p>Wha remembers the City Arcade<br />Underneath Caird Hall<br />Buyin' onythin' frae a half-loaf<br />Tae a bouncing rubber ball<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/city-arcade"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Childhood Poems / Poetry Shopping Anna MacDonald City Centre Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:51:52 +0000 lynne.davidson 1103 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Good Days http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/good-days <p>I stayed in a house like the one displayed in the Bygone Memories exhibition, in Central Library, right before I got married, going back 40 years. But now I am a widow, I do remember the good days I had there. Little shop on the corner where you went and got all your messages. I stayed at 14 Lyon Steet, all in the past now.</p> Lyon Street 1970's Housing Shopping Mrs M. Page Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:26:45 +0000 lynne.davidson 1007 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Smell of Jute http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/smell-jute <p>I lived in Shepherds Loan in the early fifties in a tenement right next to Thomson and Shepherds, at the end of the day the bummer would sound and men and women would stream up the road on their way home, the jute fibres filled the air and the smell of jute hung heavy all around us. I loved Lizzie Smiths shop at the top of the road and would spend all of my one and sixpence pocket money there.</p> Shepherd's Loan 1950's Childhood Shopping Work / Working Life Fran Giblin West End Tue, 08 May 2012 15:32:51 +0000 lynne.davidson 944 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Beechwood Shops http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/beechwood-shops <p>I notice that there are virtually no shops in Beechwood now which made me think of the names/types of shops that thrived there in the 50s namely:</p> <p>From left to right Mallow, Beechwood Stores, Andrew G Kidds, The Butchers, Johnston Stores, McBains or Mary's and lastly the chippers.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/beechwood-shops"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Shopping Alan Lamond Beechwood Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:36:46 +0000 fiona.christison 943 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Memories of Dundee - Part Eight http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/memories-dundee-part-eight <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/dockst2.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/dockst2.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>Street vendors were commonplace in my childhood - there were so many different ones. One of the first who comes to mind is the milk man who had a small two-wheeled cart pulled by a pony. On the cart was a huge metal churn with a tap from which the milk was drawn to fill the customer's pitchers and jugs. Being two-wheeled the cart sloped and I could never understand why the churn didn't fall off and spill the milk. Then there was the banana salesman who came round carrying a basket of bananas shouting "ripe bananas sixpence a dozen" he left his basket on the street one day to go round the doors with a few bunches and when he returned to where he left his basket, someone had pinched a lot of the bananas from it. I felt sorry for him.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/memories-dundee-part-eight"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> 1940's Childhood Food and Drink Neighbours People Shopping Work / Working Life Walter Blacklaw Hilltown Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:11:03 +0000 lynne.davidson 763 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Maureen's Life http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/maureens-life <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/beechwood1.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/beechwood1.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 1946 in Lochee. Unfortunately my father died at 21 and my mother became a widow at 18. We then moved in with my grandparents in the new housing scheme called "Beechwood". This was a lovely friendly place to grow up in.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/maureens-life"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> North Ellen Street 1940's Shopping Work / Working Life Maureen Beechwood Lochee Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:52:12 +0000 lynne.davidson 711 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Albert Street Ironmonger http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/albert-street-ironmonger <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/albertstbw126-12.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/albertstbw126-12.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 bought the ironmongers shop in 1967 from James Murray and retired in 1988 to become a Councillor for Dundee Tayside Region for Ancrum Ward. I have many happy memories of customers.</p> Albert Street 1980's Shopping James Opray Stobswell Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:58:18 +0000 lynne.davidson 686 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk