The square is located between Aboyne Avenue running along the top, and Huntly Road at the bottom.
We just called this place Craigie Shops rather than Huntly Square, this being my neck of the woods back then, and when schoolboy age went there almost every day as they were also on our school route.
Amongst the shops were - Jack Chalmers, butcher - Moore, grocer - Primo, chip shop - Black, baker - Steele, household goods - Stan Gordon, newsagent - Wallace's, baker - Gowans, draper, some of which show up on the pictures above. Needless to say, during the course of time, some shops disappeared and new ones opened, so later there was a Tudor Crisps warehouse - V.G. Store - Farmfoods shop - Dempsey's, hairdresser - a Police Station - Nan's, chip shop - Church of Nazarene, and no doubt a few others that have slipped past my memory.
It wasn't just a place we shopped, we also hung out there and turned it into a play area - football, hide & seek, pitchie, the usual kind of stuff. We also indulged in a game called "Follow The Leader" which was almost like a pre-cursor to present day Parkour. A snake of us would line up and we'd all have to copy the exact movements of the leader in front. Wherever the leader went or whatever they did, everyone else behind had to do the same, so there was a lot of running around, jumping over objects, balancing on structure, that kind of stuff - a bit daring at times, well for primary age kids!
Oh yeah, and it was also a great place to go stot your Superball..!!
Click on images to enlarge if you want to nose around.
Photos by DC Thomson.
12 comments:
thats my dad's Ford Anglia :-)
its a right sad looking place these days
tommo
Grim nowadays, I hardly recognise the place
Such a shame, i think we can all remember great days in the schemes, , summer holidays , berries, Christmas , new year, furst futtin' etc etc, really, such a shame :(
Which schemes had berries?
all the current ones have berries, he he he.
Great memories- remember all of the games etc.
If you're right on the date what about the lack of Xmas paraphernalia ?
Was ther last year and as 8 aboyne says it's grim- 2 or 3 shops at best- no sign of any life- not even the toddy!!(ok I know craigie isn't Douglas )
"stans"- penny / tupenny/ threepenny trays- talk about health and safety!
Muirie
Don't forget the good old gobstopper machine outside Stans too!
Now, if I remember correctly, it's just a mini mart, a take-away and a boxing club, with a wee community centre where the church used to be.
Sadly an area inhabited by junkie's these day's. I also spent a fair bit of my youth knocking around @ the shop's playing football in the square. The wifey that stayed in the first flat as you climbed the stairs @ the huntly rd end was forever phoning the polis on us. Ah the memories.
we used to hang about he shops now and again. im sure one of my friends, gail? stayed in the flats on the corner of the square on the top floor. i remember being at a party there and got absolutely legless, lots of good memories
sDundee Model Railway Club has numbers 2&4 and great clubrooms they are,we used to be in Bonnethill Church hall and before that Dodhope Castle, yes we've been around for a long time. The oldest model railway club in Scotland. BY FAR!!!
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