As promised I have dug out three photos of Carbet Castle and added them to an album under "photos". I thought I had more, but must have been getting muddled...
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Harmony
harmonys_here
Apr 29, 2005 1:15 pm
Can any of you tell me of Carbet Castle? I only know what my grandmother has told me and what I can find on the internet. My mother is a Grimond. My...
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gray1720
Apr 29, 2005 4:45 pm
Hi Harmony, If you search the list archives (just click on messages and a search box appears at the top of the screen) I am sure you will find things on the...
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Harmony
harmonys_here
Apr 29, 2005 6:44 pm
Hello, Yes Jospeh Grimond. That was his name. I did not know that at one time they owned another house xomewhere else. My grandmother and grandfather are...
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Grant E. L. Buttars
grant_buttars
Apr 29, 2005 9:12 pm
Most of it actually went a lot longer ago than 10 years. The westmost wing survived longer than the rest. I remember it in a semi-derelict state from the...
Grant, you are a gem! Yes, the new "Carbet Castle" sticks out like a dog's hindleg (and I've moderated that remark!) and wasn't helped when I saw it by a ...
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Jim Campbell
jaynjay_2000
May 1, 2005 12:18 pm
Not far from your dad's Dental Practice, Grant, right on that bend in the Road (?victoria?) there used to be a shopfront called the Lord Roberts Memorial...
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alistair9623
May 1, 2005 2:14 pm
... in ... Hello Jim, Someone decided that I wasn't a member of the group and refused to deliver my first message, Soooo.... a repeat I remember it well. Just...
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Grant E. L. Buttars
grant_buttars
May 1, 2005 7:05 pm
Jim, It was my great uncle, Dave Buttars, who was the dentist. His pracice was at the east corner of the Hilltown & Victoria Rd. Lord Roberts were at the...
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Jim Robertson
jimrob_009
May 1, 2005 10:31 pm
... Hi Grant & Jim, Whenever the late Queen Mother visited Dundee in the years gone by, she always visited the Lord Robert's Workshop, and made a purchase. She...
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Clay Hackett
hackettclay
May 2, 2005 3:34 am
Hi Jim, In response to your question, "Who was Lord Roberts"?, please check this url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sleigh_Roberts%2C_1st_Earl_Roberts...
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Harmony Van Luven
harmonys_here
May 2, 2005 12:57 pm
I would be ecstatic if I was to recieve and article and picture about Joseph Grimond sr.!! Don't worry about the CD, if you like you could just scan the ...
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Jim Campbell
jaynjay_2000
May 5, 2005 4:02 am
Many thanks to all of you. It has interested me for a long time as I remember waiting for the bus at the top of the wellgate and seeing the people working away...
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Grant E. L. Buttars
grant_buttars
May 5, 2005 1:17 pm
... Hello Jim, Yes, Willam P. Robertson was the first husband of my grandfather's cousin, Georgina Galloway Butters. She subsequently married Frederick Wilkie...
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markhenderson5
May 11, 2005 8:34 am
Can anyone tell me where Isles Lane was in Dundee? I lived in Kincardine Street until 1967, and remember it was closeby somewhere....
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Michael Bolik
michaelbolik
May 11, 2005 9:44 am
It was the next up from Kincardine St along Hawkhill, heading away from the centre. Michael Michael Bolik Assistant Archivist Archive Services University of...
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caley1232003
May 12, 2005 8:46 am
As a Countryside Ranger with the City Council I am the lead contact for this site, previously known as Lovers Lane or Sheill Street Nature Area, and would like...
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kellybpgg
Jul 24, 2005 4:12 pm
Hello everyone firstly I would like to thank you for allowing me to join your group,I am now living in Mill O Mains and I would like to find out more about it...
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Jim Robertson
jimrob_009
Jul 24, 2005 9:40 pm
... Kelly, A good book on the early history of"Angus & the Mearns" byRichard Oram, ISBN 1 874744 47 5, pub'd Birlinn 1996, gives some interest info info on...
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Jim Robertson
jimrob_009
Jul 24, 2005 10:57 pm
... Kelly, Another chip of info - this time from the book by David Durward - Dundee - Names People & Places ISBN 1 873644 79 5, pub Mercat Press - 1998 - pp ...
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Countryside Rangers
caley1232003
Jul 25, 2005 8:20 am
Hi Kelly, Welcome to the group. John Whyman, one of the Countryside Rangers in Dundee, is the contact Ranger for Trottick Ponds Local Nature Reserve. As part...
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kelly ooooo
kellybpgg
Jul 25, 2005 11:45 am
Hello Again just thought I would say thank you to everyone who has helped greatly into my search of the old Mill O mains ... Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal...
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Grant E. L. Buttars
grant_buttars
Jul 25, 2005 4:56 pm
The 1841 census shows 'Mill of Mains' as a farm, farmed by James Fenton. Adjacent to it was 'Little Mill', which seems to have been populated by beachers who...
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Grant E. L. Buttars
grant_buttars
Jul 25, 2005 6:04 pm
Dave, My knowledge of the western end of Broughty Ferry is better but I think I'm right in saying that the land in question would have been originally part of...
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kelly ooooo
kellybpgg
Jul 26, 2005 1:28 pm
Thanks Grant im off to have a look at the link you sent me thanks once again from kelly "Grant E. L. Buttars" <GButtars@...> wrote:The...
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denspark157
Jul 27, 2005 8:24 am
Do a search on Google and Blue Yonder, not under Mill o'Mains, but Den o' Mains reveals a lot of information about the area. Including District Council...
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caley1232003
Jul 27, 2005 1:44 pm
Hi Grant, Thanks for the information. I have been told by some people that part of the area used to be part of the old Barnhill golf course, but old maps do...
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caley1232003
Jul 27, 2005 1:57 pm
Hi, I am currently researching this subject, along with Lindsay Horne from Dundee, and would love to hear from anyone with stories or anecdotes, photos etc. ...
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Bob Ellis
freespacenetca
Aug 19, 2005 1:32 am
Good Morning: Have you seen these pictures: http://www.mccrow.org.uk/ I checked throught the group site, but I didn't see them there. Bob, Guelph, Canada. ...
