Adamson & Son had this workshop/factory at 140 Arbroath Road, and it was one of those places that I'd pass regularly as a schoolboy, but didn't have a clue what went on inside!
Well after recently finding an advert for them dating from 1970, I can now let it be known that in this Wire & Metal Workers building they called Riverview Works, they made a wide variety of items.
Their wire based products included - guards for windows, fires, fans and similar stuff - then there was fence enclosures for sports grounds, animal pens, works security etc and they also made more general items like baskets, sieves, trays and so on.
Their sheetmetal products included - lockers, bins, pipes, signs, storage tanks, things like that.
This picture of the premises was taken in March 1972 - but not long after, they had moved biz to Clepington Road and by around 1973/74 this building was demolished.
Photo by DC Thomson.
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I remember this as quite a long building, demolished to make way for the supermarket.
Happily, the company seems to be still in business in Coldside, with a similar list of products.
http://www.adamsonfabricationsdundee.co.uk/product-range
Which Supermarket?
'Twas Presto, which I think was the city's first superstore.
When staying with my family in Aberdeen in the early seventies, it was a thing of wonder to be taken to Fine Fare at the Bridge of Dee. Dundee had nothing like it. Then a few years later this retailing marvel appeared on the Arbroath Road, just up from where we lived.
Was that before the big Fine Fare in Lochee? That was pretty early too.
Ooh, that sounds too close to call. Lochee Shopping Centre went up when - 1974/75? Presto was built about the same time.
But pssst! GG's liable to take these comments down for being 'off topic'. Bridie started it!
So, the wire works on the Arbroath Road...I remember it well..!
was Wm Low not a superstore then?
and the sosh it was an effing great store and ye got stamps tae,
Ahhhh! Now I get it...yes Presto then Safeway then knocked down for the "German Deli" (Aldi)
Adamson's building wasn't the actual spot where Presto was though. This was just the entrance/car park area. Presto itself was further back, way behind the petrol station.
Check out the mid 70's air snap
http://retrodundee.blogspot.com/2010/03/70s-air-shot-craigie-craigiebank.html
I had the feeling that the building went all the way back to where the supermarket stands. The only aerial photo I can find - the Google Earth one from 1945 - doesn't seem to show any building there, but the other part of the plot has a number of buildings. Do you have a 1945 directory entry?
Nope - I only have retro decades stuff.
The other buildings there were the original Greendykes farm, premises of McLean's Potatoes Ltd. They were there right up to the early seventies as well.
I served my time with adamsons in cleppy road presto paid for the new factory which is now pegazzi lighting
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