RETRO DUNDEE

This aerial photo is from the late 80's and shows the familiar layout of the central waterfront area our generation will remember it by...

The jute industry was still going on in Dundee in the 80's, but it has to be said, it was nearing the end of its life. Here was one...

From yesterdays royal visitor to the Tay, to todays royal worker on the Tay - the Tay Queen. This ad, from a 1981 Courier, lets it be kno...

Taking advantage of the nice weather one summer evening back in the 70's, my brother nipped along to the Ferry to try out his new...

On a chilly Spring evening in the Ferry, sometime in the early 70's, my brother snapped this guy nonchalantly walking along the water...

This was the scene down at the docks exactly 25 years ago today - 3rd April 1986 - the mo...

And so we reach the moment the Tay Road Bridge officially opened. The event, which was broadcast live on TV, took place around midday on Th...

Continuing with the adverts in the 1966 Bridge Souvenir Supplement - here's another 2. I reckon Larg's missed a good opportu...

Many of the adverts in the Souvenir Supplement I posted yesterday, incorporated the new bridge into their sales pitch. Here's a...

To celebrate the opening of the Tay Road Bridge, the Evening Telegraph issued a couple of souvenir supplements. The one above is the 2nd of ...

2 photos taken in fairly quick succession, capturing the moment the 2 chimney stacks at Carolina Port Power Station were demolished. ...

On the site where, long ago, Dundee jute sacks were once shipped to the cotton plantations of Carolina USA, they built the Power Station...

The picture is of the Tay Queen arriving at the Old Pilot Pier in Broughty Ferry on 13th August 1982. This pleasure boat, which ...

The top photo was taken from the observation platform on Tay Road Bridge in the late 60's and shows the view along the original cent...

Shotcast, in Whitehall Crescent, was a shop me and my mates used to go to in the 60's & 70's when we were school aged. We'...