http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/279/0 en http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/post-war-dundee <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/downfield_b15_021.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/downfield_b15_021.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>Saturday afternoons in the early 1950s for my sister Moyra and myself were very special. I was 6 years old in 1952 and my sister 12.</p> <p>We boarded the Downfield tram at Fairmuir, rushed up the stairs to claim the 'J' shaped seat at the front window, and headed for the terminus at Downfield.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/post-war-dundee"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Kingsway South Road Union Street 1950's Childhood Family Food and Drink Railways / Trains Trams Dave Burnett Downfield Fairmuir Lochee Ninewells Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:03:24 +0000 lynne.davidson 597 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/culture-shock <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/densrd.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/wysiwyg_imageupload/9/densrd.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>We moved to Church Street and then in 1929 to Dens Road. Dens Road School was across the road and I started at the nursery class there when I was three and a half years old and then started at the 'big school' at four and a half. This is me in Miss Barrie's infant class in 1930. Dens Road was a great school and I was there from three and a half years old to nine years old.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/culture-shock"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> </div> Church Street Dens Road Graham Street Kingsway Mitchell Street 1920's Football School Days Burnett Fairmuir Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:47:22 +0000 lynne.davidson 591 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk