DERBY STREET MULTIS IN THE MID 80'S.

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 before that period, and since that time many have come a tumblin' down into oblivion!

The ones in the photos here are the Derby Street multis, themselves due to be demolished next year.

The top picture makes a very satisfying abstract image to me and is of Butterburn Court, snapped on 2nd April 1985.

Middle photo was taken from the corner of North George Street & Church Street, and captured on 20th September 1984.

It features a hotchpotch of Hilltown housing, from the corner cottage at the front, to the derelict tenements on the right, with the multis at the back of it all.

Quite a lot of wasteland in-between as well, but one place that was active in amongst all this, was the cream coloured building - The Ladbroke Social Club.

The bottom picture is of the same area but from higher up, this being the view from Carnegie Tower on 30th July 1985.

You'll notice the rough bit of land beside the corner cottage has become modernised, and in fact wipes out half of Church Street.

The road running from the bottom-left with the empty tenement, is Caldrum Street.

It's good to view these Hulltoon humdingers on a grander scale, so to bring up the enlarged versions, just click onto the pictures.

Photos by Neale Elder.

DUNDEE CHURCH MYSTERY

The picture above is a screen shot taken from a rare piece of footage below which was filmed in Dundee in December 1968.
The location of the church is a bit of a mystery. I haven't been able to identify it, but perhaps one of you may recognise it. Is it still on the go, has it since been demolished?
Another wee mystery is the camera doesn't move, it just stays with the same shot the whole time. You can detect a bit of slow movement in the clouds with some change in light going on. I suppose the cameraman was trying to achieve an atmospheric feel to it, but it just looks a bit eerie to me!
A third puzzling aspect to it is that it captured the church bells ringing, however, these don't sound like the kind of thing you'd normally hear on a Sunday in my opinion.
Anyway, see what you reckon...

CHURCH PUB #2 - ANGELS

Angels was Dundee's 2nd city centre church pub. It opened in the mid 80's and was located on the corner of Ward Road & Rattray Street. I remember it had a water feature above the bar and its constant trickling sound seemed to make you want to visit the loo more than usual!

You can see in the photo it had a rather grand entrance area.

There was also another part of it on the Rattray Street side (you can just make out the doorway) - a bar called, Heavens Above, which ironically, was downstairs in the basement!