RETRO DUNDEE

That's me done. My wee offbeat look back at what life was like for my generation growing up in Dundee d...

I was originally planning on doing Retro Dundee for around 2 years, that being how long I thought I would be able to post items regular...

Many of you will have had a Viewmaster as a kid, the plastic toy binoculars you put card discs into to view 3D images. Probably not so ma...

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

3 shots here that'll make you want to snuggle up in front of a coal fire - all from the 70's, and maybe even the same winter....

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

If you backtrack to 24th October 2011 when I posted 3 pictures from around the Cowgate, you'll be able to see many of the buildings...

Another group of photos from the early 70's showing the demolition around Victoria Road. Top picture is of the upper area of ...

A couple of interesting photos showing the back of the buildings along Victoria Road. You may recall a similar view of this section o...

Well Peter Ustinov may have written a play called "Halfway Up A Tree", but halfway up this tree was a strange fruit that I menti...

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...

Just along the road a wee bit from their previous location, this branch of the Dundee Savings Bank in Arbroath Road was photographed in...

2 items from the mid 70's featuring the Dundee Savings Bank. Top one is an ad dated 1974. In '74 the DSB had loads of banks sp...

Adamson & Son had this workshop/factory at 140 Arbroath Road. It was a place I'd pass regularly as a schoolboy, but didn't ...

One of the well known shops in the city arcade in Shore Terrace was McLeish Brothers, who were a fishmonger/wee grocer. This used to be the...

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...

Here we have 3 shots taken in the early 70's showing the area around Charles Street. Top image is the upper stretch of the Wellg...

3 views of the Cowgate area captured before all the demolition began - so 1970ish. Top one is from near St Andrew's Street juncti...

[Sometimes it is almost impossible to say - or to remember - from where exactly an idea originates. Is it, for example, assoc...