Bygone News - Perth Road http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/225/0 en Boy on the Bike http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/boy-bike-0 <p><span class='wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_right 0'><a href="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title="Princess Cinema"><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" alt="" title="Princess Cinema" class="imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload 0 imagecache imagecache-medium" style="" width="230" height="165" /></a> <span class='image_meta'></span></span></p> <p>I note the photograph of the Princess Cinema, I am the laddie on the bike, the photo taken by someone from D.C. Thomson about May 1959. I lived at 88, Hawkhill from 1951-53 and went to Tay Street School. Them moved away to Paisley. Came back in 1958 and lived in Rosefield Street. My mum had a second hand shop and a cafe in Brook Street, bottom of Larch Street. I remember playing in the high landie. Only remember one person from Tay Street School, a lass called Ella McGuiken who loved in Park Row until about 1960. She was a bonnie dancer.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/boy-bike-0"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Hawkhill Larch Street Perth Road Rosebank Street Tay Street Buildings/Structures Childhood Cinema / Theatre Michael Butler Hawkhill Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:05:47 +0000 lynne.davidson 1294 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Boy on the Bike http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/boy-bike <p><span class='wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_right 0'><a href="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title="Princess Cinema"><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/princesscinema.png" alt="" title="Princess Cinema" class="imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload 0 imagecache imagecache-medium" style="" width="230" height="165" /></a> <span class='image_meta'></span></span></p> <p>I note the photograph of the Princess Cinema, I am the laddie on the bike, the photo taken by someone from D.C. Thomson about May 1959. I lived at 88, Hawkhill from 1951-53 and went to Tay Street School. Them moved away to Paisley. Came back in 1958 and lived in Rosefield Street. My mum had a second hand shop and a cafe in Brook Street, bottom of Larch Street. I remember playing in the high landie. Only remember one person from Tay Street School, a lass called Ella McGuiken who loved in Park Row until about 1960. She was a bonnie dancer.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/boy-bike"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Hawkhill Larch Street Perth Road Rosebank Street Tay Street Buildings/Structures Childhood Cinema / Theatre Michael Butler Hawkhill Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:00:17 +0000 lynne.davidson 1293 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Happy Days http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/happy-days-1 <p>I moved from Montrose to Dundee and worked as a porter in the D.R.I. After a spell at Step Row off the Perth Road, we were given a house in Dunbeg Place, Trottick. We came to know some ot the residents and still keep in touch with Betty and Ian. My brother, who was a chef in the D.R.I. and I played golf at Caird Park. Ian and I frequently visited the Claverhouse (Ian called it the slaverhouse) on Saturday nights. Happy days.</p> Perth Road Step Row Parks People Tony Munro Kirkton / Trottick Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:00:00 +0000 lynne.davidson 1290 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Pigs in Blackness Library http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/pigs-blackness-library <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/5/Perth%20Road%2C%20Sinderins.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title="Blackness Library"><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/5/Perth%20Road%2C%20Sinderins.png" alt="" title="Blackness Library" 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 have read that Blackness Library is celebrating its centenary this year and that members and former members are being invited to offer special memories associated with the library. I have one incident with which I was directly linked and which caused something of a surprise at the library in the 1940s. Whether anyone else still linked to the area remembers it I am not sure, but I believe it was the talk of the Sinderins at the time.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/pigs-blackness-library"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Blackness Avenue Perth Road 1940's Animals Childhood Hugh G.C. Macdougall Blackness Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:26:06 +0000 lynne.davidson 1080 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Memories of Ninewells http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/memories-ninewells <p>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.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/memories-ninewells"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Perth Road Celebrations / Occasions Childhood Playing / Games Street Life Trams Bill Dryden Ninewells Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:13:24 +0000 fiona.christison 1057 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Memories of Dundee http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/memories-dundee-1 <p>We lived in MacVicars Lane off the Perth Road for a while but in 1959 we moved to Millars Wynd. I went to the Demonstration School in Park Place and remember some classmates names like Kenny Campbell, Ronald Koppel, Alistair Soutar, Diane Buick, Cherry Leaper, Jaqueline McMaster and Stewart Patterson. Our headmaster was John Gunning and it truly was the best education a child could have. The teachers like Mr Watson, Mrs McFeet and Miss Gregg were simply the best.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/memories-dundee-1"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Hawkhill Perth Road Childhood Cinema / Theatre Dancing / Dance Halls School Days Rob Irving Hawkhill Linlathen Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:02:19 +0000 fiona.christison 1032 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Happy Days http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/happy-days-0 <p>I was born in DRI in 1950. We lived in Hunter Street till I was 7 then we moved to fintry we felt as if we had won the&nbsp; pools, the house in Fingarth Street seemed like Buckingham Palace after the&nbsp;two rooms of Hunter Street.&nbsp;</p> <p>Baxter Park concerts, rolling our easter egg at Den of Mains playing in the fields which are now where Whitfield stands, playing outdoors from morning till night, then coming in for tea they are just some of the memories from my childhood which I remember fondly.&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/happy-days-0"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Fingarth Street Hunter Street Perth Road 1950's Childhood Dancing / Dance Halls Entertainment Lindylou Fintry Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:23:15 +0000 lynne.davidson 934 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk The Christmas Tram http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/christmas-tram <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/tramwaymenstreat_0.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/tramwaymenstreat_0.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 came back from America aged about seven and lay in bed, barely containing myself, for the decorated tram which would come along Perth Road. An open topped tram with Santa Claus driving it, decorated with holly. It was magical. I had remembered it from before I went away aged about four and here it was again? A decorated tram on the single track outside our house in Springfield. It was part of the joy of Christmas and Santa Claus. There were no trams in America.</p> Perth Road Childhood Christmas Trams Sheilah Cruickshank West End Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:52:44 +0000 lynne.davidson 733 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Step Row http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/step-row <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/moving.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/moving.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 remember my first impressions being of Step Row just off the Perth Road. My grandfather, James Kirkland was a coal merchant and everybody knew everybody. I remember especially the lovely summer days, an ice cream cone with raspberry on top from Tony's on the Perth Road. Happy days when bairns played on the street making their own fun and life was plain and simple. I have since moved to New York and have lived in many very fine places but my heart will always hold a place for all the special ordinary people and memories of Step Row.</p> Perth Road Step Row Food and Drink Neighbours Playing / Games Seren Kirkland West End Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:38:15 +0000 lynne.davidson 731 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Dundee in the Sixties http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/dundee-sixties <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/lascala.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/lascala.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>So many memories of Dundee in the sixties ... being a teenager at that time was brilliant ... going to the Marryat on a Saturday night was the highlight of the week. Dancing to the likes of the Beatles, The Searchers, Swinging Blue Jeans and many more - then leaving there to stand and blether to your pals before getting the last bus home along the Perth Road because if I wasn't home on the last bus then woe betide me because my father would be waiting for me and I would get a lecture that would last for 15 minutes or more. Even before that I remember my grandma taking me to nearly every picture house in the town. The first one being the Wizard of Oz at the La Scala then going home on the tram. Oh how I loved the journey along past the Seabraes where I could look across the water - great days that stick in your mind forever.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/dundee-sixties"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Millar's Wynd Peddie Street Perth Road 1960's Childhood Cinema / Theatre Dancing / Dance Halls Fashion Food and Drink Trams Pauline Stewart Hawkhill Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:32:02 +0000 lynne.davidson 721 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk