Jock McDougall's 1930s and 1940s memories of Blackscroft and Foundry Lane. Last June, I was delighted to get several email messages from Jock McDougall...
Hi peeps. "Cludgie" seems to have been used widely in Dundee - but confined to wide use in narrow locales, if you get my meaning. As has been pointed out, it...
Many of our members will nowadays have Broadband connections to the Internet, and to the WWW in particular. It is a relatively simple matter to log-in to...
Anybody out there help me with a old dundee song. Some of the words go I'm sailing awa doon the water i'm saying ta ta cheerio, now a you young lads that say...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
We are currently trying to digitise as much of our collection as possible. Recently we scanned some 35mm transparencies taken by George Howard Bell - a...
I've posted a school pic from Stobswell School, however i cannot fix the date insertrd with the pic, it's taken about 1947-8 not the 1847- 8 i accently...
Last week I had the rare pleasure of staying in Dundee on business at the Apex Hotel next to Victoria Dock and the Unicorn. I do remember many years ago my...
I have now scanned the two PCs which were published by the Unicorn Preservation Society, and placed the images in our Photo files One shows the Frigate Unicorn...
I work with a few Scottish ex-pats here in America. We were having a discussion on Dundee dialect and the word "swetchie"; came up. Can anyone tell me if...
Hi All. I'm reading the book Witch's Blood and finding it fascinating. I can't seem to find a consensus on the veracity of the story. Are there any opinions...
Can anyone suggest how I would go about finding the telephone number for the minister or churchwarden (do you have those in Scotland - thus speaks an...
Good Morning Ethi Beaton House in Monifieth, was once the home of my ancestors, Robert ARKLAY & his wife, Catherine ( nee NEISH ) I know that the old house is...
Please can someone tell me when the Blackscroft and Foundry Lane area ceased to be residential? Presumably the area was tenements to pack people in close to...
It really is time for us to break with the constant use of Subject Headings which have become inappropriate over time. When writing about whaling ships etc,...
Greetings everyone. I was wondering... If a child was born out of wedlock, would their birth still be in the BMD's at Scotland's people. I'm having trouble...
My grandfather Robert Robb (1872-1964) was a student at Paddy Mitchell's School in Dundee circa 1878-1886. He had excellent hand writing all his life and...
The Friends of Dundee City Archives held a one day Conference on this topic in October 2006. copies of the Proceedings of this well attended meeting can be...
Hi, I read an article in the Tele a while ago, and it mentioned Murraygate, Seagate, Overgate, Nethergate and Wellgate as the 5 'gaits' of Dundee. However - I...
