RETRO DUNDEE

It doesn't look particularly wintery, but these photos were taken on 19th December 1963. The square is located between Ab...

1978 saw Dundee University win TV's "University Challenge". The winning team above for the 77/78 series were - Tom McGhee...

Now some pages from a 1981 Craigie High School magazine. This issue covers the period from the end of 1980 to the beginning of ...

Anybody who worked in the Levi factory, better look away - here's a picture of me wearing their rivals jeans - Wranglers. This would ...

The map is to help you out with the area mentioned in this item. Montgomerie Square was located on the Kingsway in a patch of ground b...

Every kid in the 60's knew when summer had arrived - when your parents told you it was time to put on your sandals. As you can see, the...

Last year I put an item up on Retro about the time I got involved in the national "Plant A Tree In 73" campaign at Craigie High. W...

An amusing postcard from Greenieland...or is it the North Poly...either way, it's aroond the backies at my old hoose in Craigie, 1973. ...

When your time's up, it's time to depart, and Timex's time at Milton of Craigie ended in the 1980's after around 3 decades o...

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...

This image of Mid Craigie School comes from an advert for Bett Brothers, the builders, dated 1960. In the 60's, the school's head te...

Here's a view from Craigie High School, taken on 19th May 1982. It was taken by Neale Elder, just shortly before leaving CHS. However,...

Well here's a Craigie High School classroom I was never in - the Domestic Science room. I haven't even got a clue who the teachers w...

This would have been near the end of the lollipop man's stint on Arbroath Road because the photo was taken in November 1972, the same m...

Beh goad, this is a pretty bleak image of Mid Craigie's Kingennie Terrace... and it's just how I remember it! In the 70's, I ...

The main focal point in this picture is the Kingsway circle. Branching off from it is Arbroath Road going up to the 12 o'clock position...

LUX - OMO - TIDE - FAIRY SNOW - OXYDOL - DREFT... just some of the washing products that were popular in the 60's, but now ...

In the 70's, Tudor Crisps had a warehouse at the Craigie shops in Huntly Road. I'd see their van passing our way quite a lot.  It...

This was probably one of the lesser known Land O' Cakes shops in Dundee - the Craigie one in Huntly Square. These shops were built ...

  My brother took this photo around 1973ish - Embassy Tipped and Younger's beer being very common around that era. The picture was ...