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Friday, 1 July 2011

GOODBYE MID STREET - 80'S

It's not just only buildings that disappear, sometimes it's the entire street, and here we are in the 80's bidding farewell to Mid Street.
Mid Street ran from the Dudhope Street/Hilltown junction, through to Constitution Road.
Top pic is from the Hilltown fork, Dudhope Street off to the right, Mid Street being demolished on the left.
The other photo is from Mid Street looking back over at the Hilltown.
It was time for it to go to make way for the Marketgait tunnel.
Photos by The Bear.
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22 comments:

  1. lastbus1 July 2011 at 03:22

    Used to be a hardware shop on corner of Mid Street where I bought my tools during my apprenticeship, forget the name. Went to primary at Rosebank so remeber walking down this road plenty of times in the 60s

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    1. ColinL26 July 2020 at 05:57

      yeah i remember it my gran lived in dudhope st, the shop is visible in the photo above, was old school shop

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    2. Anonymous3 February 2023 at 01:08

      My great grandparents, David Martin and Margaret Rennie lived at 5 Mid St in 1891

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  2. Steve M1 July 2011 at 04:23

    Wasn't that Robertsons the Ironmonger, I have a vague recollection of the name, we were still using them in the early 80's

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  3. Fat Boab1 July 2011 at 06:12

    Did it take you down to a set of stairs around from the Ladywell? i als vaguely remember a wee passageway next to the Terra Nova that led you down some dodgy stairs down a wee pendie to nearly the same place ! (i think)

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  4. RETRO DUNDEE1 July 2011 at 07:13

    This goes back to 1974, but here's who were in Mid Street at that time...
    37 - McGill's (dept store)
    39 - James Findlay (joiners)
    44 - W.Robertson (ironmongers)
    42 - Neon Craft
    38 - Adams (sausages & pies)
    There were a couple of wee lanes off Mid Street - Ireland's Lane and Russell Lane.

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    1. Anonymous3 September 2022 at 03:43

      I used to work at Neon Craft Signs in Mid Street about 1973. It was owned by a chap called Sandy Minto and he stayed in Tealing.
      He used to park his van on Dudhope Street and come through the pend which led to his workplace. He was a glassblower to trade.




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  5. Neale E1 July 2011 at 10:12

    All that's left of Mid Street is the back wall of the old Bell Street Tech, and if you go down Paradise Road and look across the dual carriageway the old street nameplate is still there.

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  6. Merts1 July 2011 at 11:57

    Used to get paraffin from Robertsons all those years ago. Had my plumbing apprenticeship 'time out' bevvy night in the old Tarra Nova. Happy days

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  7. RETRO DUNDEE1 July 2011 at 12:34

    Now then, I could link the 2 aspects of Merts comment together.
    I have an original badge from the 60s for "Pure Pink Paraffin" that has a pink elephant on it.
    So there you have it, a visit to Robertsons and a visit to the Terra Nova rolled into one!

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  8. Haggis1 July 2011 at 18:21

    "On Mother
    Kelly's doorstep,----- down Paradise road/row" :=)

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  9. Insider4 July 2011 at 05:37

    hamish, hamish, give us a pint and a flemings pie and take they shiny shorts aff ffs LOL. Nobodys mentioned the ubique^v lodge that got demolished they were non too pleased from what I could gather and neither were the Unitarians.

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  10. charlie c21 July 2011 at 05:58

    do you remember the sandy brae,s that run beteen dudhope st and mid st

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    1. Anonymous31 August 2024 at 05:04

      Hi Brian I lived at 14 mid street top flat at top of the stairs through the double doors I think you stayed on the left I stayed on the left Robertson do you remember.

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  11. brian26 July 2011 at 03:18

    mid street...we lived in no 14 (archibald)still remember the outside toilet we shared wi our neighbour...6 of us in a tiny flat but still happy days.the iron monger used to sell my mum parafin ..we all went to rosebank ..left in 1967 when i was 5

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    1. Anonymous16 November 2014 at 08:23

      hi. did you live in the top floor flat? because my grandad lived in 14 mid street he left he was born in 1928. do you have any pictures of 14 mid street. thanks sarah

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    2. Anonymous1 October 2024 at 05:24

      My Dad lived in Mid Street . CAIRNS family , he was born 1928

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  12. Anonymous22 June 2016 at 06:22

    I served my time with James Findlay and son Joiners

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  13. Adele O'Donnell22 November 2017 at 09:34

    I just received my grandparents marriage certificate today and it says my grandmother lived at 20 mid street in the early 1960s she was also a shop assistant her name was Sarah Mcdonald McKnight she was 21 in 1962.. shame that the street no longer exists

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    1. Anonymous30 November 2017 at 16:46

      My Mother was born in 20 Mid Street in 1925 - my Grandfather Sandy Scott died 1965 - 20 Mid Street and worked as a Joiner porter at the Jute Mills.

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  14. Unknown4 June 2019 at 15:17

    Born,brought up and was married and had my first house in Mid Street.

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  15. Anonymous1 January 2020 at 13:28

    I just discovered that my GGG Grandparents lived on Mid Street in 1891. Thanks for the picture! Greg M.

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