RETRO DUNDEE

Officially, this pub was called The Great Northern Bar, but the locals who drank there just referred to it as Bob MacKay's. The photo...

3 adverts for Rockpile Records published in local fanzines in 1982. A neat wee shop, selling a mixture of new and second-hand records. Ve...

Hawkhill Brewers in Mid Wynd was a very short-lived business that started up in 1983 by Bob Welch and partners. Bob was a home-brew enthusia...

There are 2 images of The Scout up on Retro already, but this one here is my favourite. Taken in 1980, it shows what a weather beaten, run ...

Dundonian, Stan Urban, is an old-school rock 'n' roller. He was hooked on the music at a young age - and I mean young - playing in a...

Alan Price had a 2 night stint at Sessions in June 1989. I can remember when Alan was a regular on the telly in the 60's when he was in ...

This cosy little scene was taken in Da Vinci's in Westport around about 1980. The babe in black is Audrey Lundie who was well known in t...

A 1988 advert for In Hawkes Hairdressing in Westport. Not sure whether "Hawkes" is supposed to mean "Hawkhill" in a more...

Here's an image I bet many of you have been longing to see - Frew's on the Hawkhill. It's another of Neale Elder's photograp...

I was going to put this picture up sometime later but thought I'd post it now to tie in with yesterdays photo. South Tay Street running...

This photo is from around 1984ish when a lot of the Westport area was being pulled down. The ad was actually on the side of the former pre...

Moving down South in the mid 80's meant that I missed out on the Westport Bar when it opened a year or so after I departed, but was a...

Click onto the image to read about some of the works of art that were on display around Blackness, where they were located and who created ...

The first of 2 leaflets I have on public art in Dundee in the 80's, with t his one here being for the Blackness area. In the late 70...

This ad for the JM appeared on 5th Sept 62. It was a one-off ad referring to the night Dundee FC played Cologne at Dens in the European Cup...

This was the bonnie mess in the 80's that was South Tay Street, although I seem to remember it was just this certain part in particular...

  Here's a well trodden cobbled path....the view up Hawkhill from Westport. I can recall on more than one occasion, me and my mat...

Although it sounds like a pub you'd visit to catch live hip hop acts perform, the MC in the name stands for Mickey Coyle. The MC Bar w...

Nowadays, the Globe occupies the full width of this building in Westport, which is all nice & tidy after its restoration. In my era, ho...

  "And now, the end is near..." 1982 here at Temple Lane, and not only is the corner shop boarded up, but all the flats above...