tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post4301581468448883632..comments2024-03-28T17:10:16.059-07:00Comments on RETRO DUNDEE: FACES LAND - 1986RETRO DUNDEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07746839418666784001noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-36650211859729874062012-06-05T10:54:32.449-07:002012-06-05T10:54:32.449-07:00Just spotted my auld jps Capri ALS 190r. Was worki...Just spotted my auld jps Capri ALS 190r. Was working round the corner at the servite sheltered housing with dh.morris,ah the memoriesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-5956301884450576582011-11-29T01:10:24.363-08:002011-11-29T01:10:24.363-08:00A TV programme on mediaeval cathedrals suggested m...A TV programme on mediaeval cathedrals suggested many of their gargoyles were caricatures of local people, some of them even paying for being immortalised, or sometimes of the stonemasons themselves. Looking at the faces on StreetView (where Google hasn't blurred them for privacy reasons!), it could well have been faces of the masons who built the tenement. <br /><br />The pub seems to have the same colour of paint in modern times.Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-21200855664802830782011-11-28T13:24:38.419-08:002011-11-28T13:24:38.419-08:00It was a "student prank"It was a "student prank"michael50/50https://www.blogger.com/profile/01860487861822545589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-11361988628906296232011-11-28T06:41:37.263-08:002011-11-28T06:41:37.263-08:00Was Dave Coutts not the boy who was caught stealin...Was Dave Coutts not the boy who was caught stealing cheese as a kid and this came back to haunt him as he tried to pursue a career in politics? Loved Scotland so much he pissed off to the baltic. At least Sean Connery had the sense to piss off somewhere warm :-) !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-79611218085569233282011-11-26T13:15:37.587-08:002011-11-26T13:15:37.587-08:00Davy Coutts was the SNP coonsillur wha went to Est...Davy Coutts was the SNP coonsillur wha went to Estonia to run a taxi firm.<br />I remember him at my door in the Trottick multis in the eighties, asking me to vote for him and Sean Connerys "SH-N-P".<br />Eh telt him tae bugger aff, and voted for Charlie Farquar.<br />More the fool me!Wullie Broonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-22314014609432739792011-11-26T12:47:41.685-08:002011-11-26T12:47:41.685-08:00anybody know why the faces were put on the buildin...anybody know why the faces were put on the building ? it wasnt anything to do with the Maxwell family was it? family members trusted but hideous servants, the area was called Maxwelltown after all.The Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-30313084321331903122011-11-26T12:42:13.294-08:002011-11-26T12:42:13.294-08:00I bet that lada is probably still going back in Ru...I bet that lada is probably still going back in Russia somewhere (with the help of a Mr Coots)and the capri is just a wet dream for some auld guy after being scrappedThe Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-20546274752268022422011-11-26T06:48:30.806-08:002011-11-26T06:48:30.806-08:00Walked down there many many times going to or comi...Walked down there many many times going to or coming from the "Sallies" it was very eerie on a dark night, used to remind me of Hammer House of Horror. Mind you, i had just had a pot of magic mushrooms :-)~Sidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-21902505326729294552011-11-26T04:44:52.871-08:002011-11-26T04:44:52.871-08:00Well that's a new one on me - I didn't kno...Well that's a new one on me - I didn't know about the faces - great pic too.<br />Thanks Neale.Gordon C.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075437092819379415.post-35557228345668806172011-11-26T02:53:16.567-08:002011-11-26T02:53:16.567-08:00Theres also graffiti by Petso (scored out) and shu...Theres also graffiti by Petso (scored out) and shug , :) and a heavy laden coal lorry ready to do the roonds i think, not saw one of them for a while !Fat Boabnoreply@blogger.com