Bygone News - Street Life

Hays Antique Shop

lynne.davidson — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:26:55 +0000

I was brought up in Wellington Street, how many people remember Hays Antique shop in Ann Street, also where was Kidd

Street?

How the Blue Mountains Got its Name

lynne.davidson — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:35:04 +0000

The Blue Mountains at the bottom of the Hawkhill on the left hand side were called after an Italian man came to Dundee and lived in that tenement, he was so homesick that he painted the blue mountains on the wall of his flat to remind him of his home near the Blue Mountains in Italy .

School Memories Good and Bad

lynne.davidson — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:52:40 +0000

My parents Ella and Bill Scott lived at 132, Dunholm Road, Charleston from 1959-64, they were the first people to live in the house. My dad built the rockery in the front garden, it was still there in 1979. I went to Charleston Primary school from 1960-64 then my family moved to New Zealand. The 3 Thompson children often played with myself and 2 younger sisters, Ann Yvone and Frankie Thompson. Some childrens names I went to school with; Alison Leach, Elizabeth Baird, Alan Low, Martin Smart, Ruth Matheson, Lyn Hackney, Rhona Miles. Read more......

My Hulltoon 'Hert'

lynne.davidson — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:27:07 +0000

I've just came across this site by accident and its wonderful to read old stories and look at old photos of Dundee. I was born at the foot of the Hulltoon (as it was known) in Sheperd's Pend (46 Hilltown), when I was 4 we swapped houses with my Grannie to 20 Hulltoon. They called it Meekie Land I went to St Mary's Forebank and St John's schools growing up 1944 to 1959. They were great days.
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Memories of Ninewells

fiona.christison — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:13:24 +0000

I was brought up in Ninewells and am now 63 years old. It is amazing how much this place has changed in a fairly short time. Gone is Bill Davidson's wee shop, Joe Johnstone's smiddy, Lauries's nursery and the greenhouses behind it. Ninewell's garage is still there, albeit much changed and no longer a petrol station. There was also another petrol station close to where the railway bridge crossed over the Perth Road by Johnny Callaghan's scrapyard. Read more......

Dundee Days

lynne.davidson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:18:55 +0000

Lorimer Street - low door "But and Ben" (1945 - 56). Jute Factory "Bummer" (Wm. Boase). Rag and Bone man with his bugle. Early morning milk deliveries by horse and cart. Playing street games like hopscotch/chicy/melly. Attending Saturday morning children's club at the Odeon Cinema.

Fincraig Street in the Sixties

lynne.davidson — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:23:11 +0000

Fincraig Street in the summer of the 1960s.

PlayingThe pong of the bins, nappies, endless nappies on the line in the âbackiesâ. Elvis on the radio from upon verandas and beer bottle Andy with his long black sack collecting last nights booze refuse. Bumble bees in jars with clover stuffed inside and chalking boxes on the pavements while the green nurse passed by. Read more......

Buster Stall

lynne.davidson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:35:26 +0000

My Great Granny Christina De Gerniar MacGregor had a buster stall in the old Overgate. She was some woman after having sixteen children.

A Conductor's Tale

lynne.davidson — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:40:44 +0000

In 1955, having just left school and starting a college course, I was employed as a temporary tram conductor during the summer of that year. It was one of the happiest summers I ever experience and I have many happy memories. Read more......

Free Tram to School

lynne.davidson — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:38:50 +0000

In 1940 I was transported by tram car from Maryfield to Blackness School. As the war started in 1939 and we moved to Linlathen in 1940 and there were no schools there so a free tram car went from Maryfield to St John's in Tay Street and St Joseph's in Blackness Road and also to Blackness School, Logie and Mitchell Street. I was only 9 years old and left home at 8am walked to Maryfield and spent the day away.