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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
--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...
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