http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/114/0 en http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/monkeys-parade <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/highst4.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/highst4.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>Before leaving Dundee, we lived in Annfield Street, above Mrs Ledger's shop, where she sold horehound toffee. I remember my mother used to give her most of her sweet coupons for her sugar and we would get cakes etc.</p> <p>I was 10 when we left and I remember when the siren went, we had to go to a shelter underneath the tenement building; later I thought what a stupid place to go - if a bomb fell, we wouldn't have had a chance.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/monkeys-parade"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Annfield Street Blackness Avenue Lochee Road 1939-1945 Dancing / Dance Halls Entertainment Holidays/Day Trips Picnics / Outings School Days Trams War Years Netta Overgate Wellgate Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:23:09 +0000 lynne.davidson 718 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/may-1945-broughty-ferry <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/bferry_b18_033.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/bferry_b18_033.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>It was May 1945 and the war had ended. Great rejoicing in Broughty Ferry!</p> <p>The neighbours decided to have a party, and it was decided to use one of Charlie Cadenhead's garages at 338 Queen Street. Of the 13 'lock-ups' behind his shop, the 'big garage' at the corner site was chosen.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/may-1945-broughty-ferry"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Annfield Street 1939-1945 Dancing / Dance Halls War Years Edna Broughty Ferry Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:33:20 +0000 lynne.davidson 606 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk