RETRO DUNDEE

Remember these? Well many of you who went to school in the 60's probably do. They were the buses that used to pick up the handica...

Although this photo of Balerno Primary School was taken in the 80's, it looks exactly the same in the picture as it did when I was there...

One of the first materials we used in primary school when it was time for "arts & crafts", was plasticine. At aged 5, we u...

Here's 2 examples of neck-wear I used to have as a primary school kid back in the 60's. The top one is of course, my old Ba...

You'll all remember these paper fortune tellers from your school days. Place your index fingers and thumbs underneath the 4 segments th...

Susan Childe was the stage name she adopted when she joined the Flamingos. As Susan, she also did lots of solo work including many TV sh...

Sometimes, what was on the outside of your school jotter was more interesting than the content inside. We used to scribble our favourite po...

To end part one of the aerial photo sequence, we now fly over one of my old hangouts, Douglas. Another 2 schools on show here that haven...

It's getting a bit on the rusty side now, but here's the original Tufty Club badge from the 60's. The Tufty Club's road saf...

Found these coins the other day. It's the old £SD currency we used before 1971. The top large one is One Penny. The small silver ...

Lochee Baths is where I learned to swim. This was back in the late 60's when my primary class used to visit there once a week for lesson...

I remember a lot of us wearing Wayfinders at Balerno school in the mid 60's. They appealed to primary aged kids because they were shoes ...

Every kid in the 60's when first starting primary, wore a SATCHEL (A). This was the standard school bag starter for infants. It had a s...

The corrugated iron rooms of Balerno School no longer exist. It closed down in the 80's, was demolished in the 90's and now has...

What better way to get the ball rolling than to take a trip back to Primary School. I went to Balerno in the 60's, located on the ...