I am current the shiply working on a new book about the 'Mars', inpired by Linda McGill, about this amazing slice of Scotland's and Dundee's social history, am...
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roslyn9177
Dec 27, 2007 4:59 pm
As a supporter of another first division club, I've had the pleasure of a few visits to Dens Park over the past couple of seasons. One thing that strikes me,...
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Anne Ide
anne_ide2003
Dec 28, 2007 10:46 am
The area opposite the main stand at Dens has, in my fifty years of supporting Dundee, been known as "The Derry". i did wonder if it might have been a...
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shug_ca
Jan 7, 2008 8:53 am
Where would one get a copy of the Royal Charter circa 1310...
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grant.buttars
Jan 12, 2008 12:08 pm
Not sure which Royal Charter you are referring to. Dundee's charter came from William the Lion in 1191. A new charter came from Robert the Bruce in 1327. I...
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tis_peter
Jan 26, 2008 12:55 am
I stumbled across a website which mentioned '2 and 3-storey city stables in Dundee, near to the docks' for working shire-horses in about 1900. I have not heard...
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Dave Perks
banjo046
Jan 26, 2008 4:21 am
Hi Peter, That was probably Wordies horses and stables. They were situated on Dock Street at the junction of market Street There was also many other stables...
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sandra smith
sandrasmith1958
Jan 26, 2008 1:07 pm
My 3xgreat grandfather, Samuel Wilkie was a carter in dundee in the middle 1800's. On his death certificate his address was given as 118 murraygate dundee. I...
... Hi Peter. During the 1950s, my maternal grandfather worked in stables just off Dock Street. My Mum used to take me down to visit him and clap the horses,...
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sandra smith
sandrasmith1958
Jan 27, 2008 1:31 am
Ok thanks guys. Will look it up. Samuel Wilkie was the brother or uncle { or something] to the guy who started Wilkie's Butcher's in the old overgate. sandra ...
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Helen Boreland Vinas
helenvinas
Jan 27, 2008 6:25 pm
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Charlotte Juarez
jeatsax1
Jan 30, 2008 12:21 am
I lived at 7 Hill Street from birth until we were moved to St Mary's around 1963 or so. I vividly remember the Clydesdales that were kept in the pend across...
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okeeffe1977
Feb 14, 2008 9:07 pm
Hi there, We found an old jam pot under our floor boards with the name "Ogilvie and Co's Dundee" Apple and Strawberry Jam. I was wondering if anybody knows...
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tis_peter
Feb 18, 2008 9:06 pm
So far, all I can tell you is that my father-in-law recalls that during the 1950s Ogilvie's Jams were sold through the 'Scowsie' shops i.e. the Scottish...
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irvine1610
Feb 18, 2008 11:10 pm
Just to let everyone know the Tay Valley FHS are giving a series of talks in Waterstones, 35 Commercial Street, Dundee Tuesday 26th February - The Mariners of...
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tis_peter
Feb 19, 2008 12:37 am
By looking in the Dundee sections of the Scotland / Ireland Telephone Directories for 1928 to 1936, I came across the following entry in each: Ogilvie & Co,...
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blueibeauty with pers...
blueibeauty
Feb 19, 2008 9:45 pm
Hi John As we are unable to attend is it possible to have a transcript of the talk on A C Lamb ? We haven't yet found if we are direct desendents of A C Lamb...
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johnwirvine@...
irvine1610
Feb 20, 2008 9:04 am
Teena, Let me know a little something about your Lamb ancestors as I have "investigated" the Lamb line quite extensively. It is unlikely that you are directly...
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dundee-history@yahoog...
Mar 1, 2008 1:48 pm
File : Welcome.doc Description : A warm Welcome to our New Members....
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jock39
Mar 1, 2008 4:25 pm
Does anyone have, or know where I can get a photo looking WEST out of Lochee Railway station?...
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johnwirvine@...
irvine1610
Mar 1, 2008 4:38 pm
Send me your email address and I will send you a picture _johnwirvine@..._ (mailto:johnwirvine@...) Regards John [Non-text portions of this message...
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jock39
Mar 2, 2008 12:23 am
Hi John, If you could send to gm@... that will find me. Many thanks regards Jock...
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ricky179967
Mar 2, 2008 8:26 pm
Hi can anyone help me trace any pictures of church street before most of it was demolished and rebuilt. I lived there from birth in 1955 till we moved to...
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lapindemort
Mar 2, 2008 9:09 pm
Hi, Does anybody have any memories of walking around Kingoodie and the Pointie (Kingoodie Pier)? Cheers...
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Anne Ide
anne_ide2003
Mar 3, 2008 8:34 am
My best friend moved from Victoria Road to Menzieshill around 1963. From then on, our Saturday morning always consisted of a walk through the fields (now...
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jutemill05
Mar 7, 2008 5:11 pm
A relative of mine lived to the ripe age of 100 and died in 1983. The obituary said she had been living at Strathmore House (296A Strathmore Ave, Dundee). Can...
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Dermot Parsons
dmbparsons
Mar 7, 2008 9:21 pm
Hi Strathmore House was a purpose-built residential care home for elderly run by the (then) local Tayside Regional Council. It was a three floor building....
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tis_peter
Mar 7, 2008 11:28 pm
As far as I am aware, Dermot sums up the positive nature of care in Strathmore House well. Across the 80's and 90's the era of large institutions was drawing...
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Wedndye Lowden
wendylowden
Mar 8, 2008 2:22 am
--Hi, I don't have any pictures, buy my family owned some property on Church street until the early 1960's and we would dearly love to get some puctures of the...
