Bygone News - Craigie / Craigiebank http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/273/0 en Not a Care in the World Days http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/not-care-world-days <p>I was born in the front bedroom at 1, Craighill Place in 1946. My first school was the hutty at the bottom of Pitarlie Road, them went to the Rainbow, had great times playing and dancing in the backies where it was all tarmacked, somebody would put a record player on their window and we would jive away, even Mum's would join in, great days and not a care in the world.</p> Pitairlie Road 1940's Childhood Dancing / Dance Halls Jess Westie Craigie / Craigiebank Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:04:07 +0000 lynne.davidson 1306 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk Streets Now Gone http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/streets-now-gone <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/scottfyffe.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/scottfyffe.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 1930, within a cottar-house on Milton of Craigie Farm, long gone, but B &amp; Q and ASDA are sited there. I think 1930 was the year of the darkest day in Dundee, when some people thought the end of the world had come.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/streets-now-gone"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Albert Street Dura Street Forfar Road Mains Loan 1930's Childhood Family Food and Drink Housing School Days Street Life Jean Craigie / Craigiebank Douglas Maryfield Mid Craigie Stobswell Whitfield Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:40:56 +0000 lynne.davidson 693 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk