RETRO DUNDEE

Here's a nice gritty urban scene looking along North Ellen Street towards a rather intimidating Jamaica Tower. This place, as most of...

A couple of snapshots showing a section of the Hilltown taken around the mid/late 70's. On the top photo, the photographer was sta...

This is an acting troupe posing near the demolition site of the Tap O' The Steps pub on the corner of Hilltown/Victoria Road, sometime a...

This is the very first issue of View magazine, a free Dundee arts guide, published in 1978. I've put up the foreword to give yo...

I'm going to have to rely on your assistance for this one. The Bear sent me these photos of an author taken in Dundee around the mid...

"This is a local book, for local people!" could have been the phrase used when this publication came out - an A-Z Of The Hillto...

Not everyone had the opportunity to look down onto the tap o' the hull, but some of those who lived in Butterburn Court did, becau...

Love them or loath them, those of us who grew up during the 3 retro decades are the ones who lived with multis most. There were none ...

The Plaza up the Hilltown was not a picture house I went to very often, once or twice in the late 60's/early 70's and that was abou...

These 3 pictures were all taken along Ann Street in the early 70's. The top image is the calm before the storm as it was snapped ...

Here's a crackin' shot taken at the bottom o' the Hull in the mid 1960's when work on the Dallfield multis was well under wa...

It looks like an aerial photo at first and then you realise it's an architects model. This miniature dates from the early 1960's ...

Here's a couple of rare colour photos of Wellington Towers caught during and after construction. The top one was taken in the 60...

It's not just only buildings that disappear, sometimes it's the entire street, and here we are in the 80's bidding farewell...

Here's a couple of Dundee pubs in the process of being wiped off the map. The top one is the Empire Bar & The Copper Bell Lou...

2 old bakers items for price of 1 on this photo. First is the main part of the image, the Rough & Fraser shop, which, as you will all h...

I take it this is the same Frank Gilfeather who is the ex boxing champ, journalist, TV host, futba pundit, playwright and author. If so, th...

This was the moment The Hawthorn's roots were wiped out forever. Did they shout "TIMBER"? With it went the other pub in shot o...

This image at the fut o' the Hull was taken on 3rd July 1982. On it, tucked away bottom right of the picture wearing the Sunderland stri...

Shifting from yesterday's Urban environment to another urban setting - the Hulltoon. The scrawl on the wall says it all! Photo by The B...