Hi Barbara, Broughty Ferry achieved burgh status in 1864. This remained until it became part of Dundee in 1913. The Broughty Ferry Town Council minutes...
Information Market Place - 1st September, Barony Hall, University of Strathclyde Open access between 3pm and 6.30pm The Society of Archivists is proud to...
You and access a trial of Gale's Public and Academic Database at http://trials.gale.com/pubacd/ sign-on pubacd17 pws durable. The 18th Century Collection...
Hello Ian, We're all still here - just run out of things to say! If you fancy looking at some photos, I downloaded a few weeks ago some floodlit pictures taken...
OK, seeing as we are so quiet, lets see if I can stimulate some debate... I have a postcard dated around 1908 of St Mary's church (nowhere near the scanner, or...
If anyone is bored, you can join us over at the Angus website. There is always something going on over there including historical memories, genealogy help and...
Hi Listers My son is doing World War II at school and wanted to know if the children in Dundee were evacuated and if so,where. I can remember my mother telling...
... In 2003 Radio 4 did a series where various aged entertainers recalled their careers - this was in the 6.30pm "funny" slot. One of them was Bruce Forsyth....
... one ,Morris, was boarded with my great-uncle and aunt. They kept in touch and, when my aunt died in the '80s, Morris came up from London to attend the...
Sue My father and his brother were sent to a farm near Blairgowrie. So it seems they were sending children towards both the West and North. Jenny Spankie ...
I can remember well the evacuation. The idea was to get as many civilians out of the cities and towns and move them to safer areas. I and my family were sent...
dave perks
banjo046@...
Oct 11, 2004 3:01 pm
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... My parents were both evacuated from Dundee.....Mum went to stay with a family called Gerrard at Bentyhowe, Cookney, near Stonehaven, and my Dad stayed at...
Hello, My mother's parents rented a holiday cottage on a farm north of Kirriemuir, and my mother and her mother lived there for a few years during the war. My...
Hi Many thanks for all your replies to my query - my son is so happy that you wrote your stories for him. Also I have an abject apology for the kind person who...
Hi All, I'll be honest right off, my request is ultimately related to my genealogical research. So I apologise in advance, but I think maybe my area of...
... <SNIP> Janice, i see that you do have a Yahoo ID, and you can therefore browse through our archives of Messages, Files, and Links. Maybe you have done so...
... <SNIP> Given a day or two, i am sure I can help you just a little from my copy of " The Municipal History of Dundee" published in 1878 by Winter, Duncan &...
Janice N' recently wrote about City dignitaries, and the Yeaman family in particular. I gave her some information and promised to dig into my "Municipal...
Robin Hallam wrote to the Group - James Yeaman was still Provost of Dundee on 10 June 1872 when he attended a function at Lambs Hotel and after giving an 800...
Hi Many of my father's family were involved in Dundee ironworking. I would be very interesred in the account of the presentation Cheers Sue Anderson Harrow,...
Hello, Jim's recent post mentioned the bells in St. Mary's Tower (The Old Steeple). The tower and Steeple Church survived the 1841 fire, but the cross kirk...
Does anyone remember Park Place Primary School, and if you do, were you a pupil there? I remember we used to call it the Demonstration School. Was it because...
I'd love to have a go, Ken, but it's long old stretch of the rope from Dundee to Oxford! However I did hear them when I was in Dundee in 2000, and was most...
... Sorry for the delay in replying. I too was a pupil at "the Training College", which was also referred to as "the Demonstration School". I think the name...
My people came from Hawkhill circa 1840! But for those of us Americans challenged in the Language: Define "toerag", please. Does it have to do with socks, or...
"Toerag" is a corruption of "tuareg", a nomadic desert Arab of North Africa. Rhyme Tay with say, and you've got it right! ... the total ... the "big houses" ...
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