RETRO DUNDEE

Here's a fine shot of Peter Ustinov having a wee chuckle to himself in the Nethergate. The 2 shops in the background are the Civil Se...

No idea if the Wellgate Library still looks the same these days, but this is how things were back in the 1980's. Top image is o...

Elsewhere on Retro Dundee I have mentioned the various musical escapades of 2 local musicians who often worked together - keyboard pl...

I don't have the exact year this scene was captured but this is what the view down Logie Street was like around the late 60s-early 70...

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...

This page here is from a Tele dated May 1989 and is a feature about the history of Dundee's cinemas. It coincided with the 10th Anniv...

Lochee by rail? Well you could once upon a time. The top picture is Lochee Station, taken around 1970-ish. It had been closed down...

1. KENNEDYS CATERING TRUCK OUTSIDE CAIRD HALL. 2. FILMING ALAN BATES. 3. SCHLESINGER WITH RUSSIAN CAR. 4. CORAL BROWNE CROSSES WINT...

Brrrrrrrr - all that salt! Dundee High School became a 1950's Russian barracks in this short scene below. This was just a panning backgr...

I put a few items up in 2008 relating to the time when the BBC filmed the Alan Bennett play "An Englishman Abroad" in the e...

Here's a quirky (or arty) wee bit of footage shot in the late 60's. It's quite unusual because it has the word "Dundee...

This ad for The Rocky Horror Picture Show was in Dundee's Street Life mag. The late showings took place at the Cannon in the Seagate in...

This instantly recognisable layout comes from the what's on section in the Courier. The one here dating from April 1970. The choice of...

Not so many cinemas in town by the time we reach the late 80's, but here's what films were on offer in October 1988, published in Du...

From the pages of Cranked Up comes this round-up of 1981's best movies, written by their critic, Fabian Bell. I remember going to quite...

The film causing all the commotion at the Gaumont was "Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs". These pictures were taken on the...

A little glimpse at what was showing at the Steps in April 1989. Not much in the way of family films, but looking through the list it re...

Call it the Victoria, Vicky, Vic or flea-pit, but as picture house's go, it was quite low down in the pecking order of cinema's to...

This ad for the Tivoli dates from the late 60's. It was a place I never went to, so don't know much about it other than the thing e...

This is Dundee lass, Heather Ripley, on set for the filming of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. She was one of the main characters in the movie, al...