RETRO DUNDEE

My brother still has an unopened packet with one of these self assembly planes inside. So although it's not the same Air Base brand...

These outdoor toys were the kind of thing you'd treat yourself to during the 7 weekies rather than add to your Christmas list. Th...

Other ways kids got stuff for free, or on the cheap, were as shown in the examples above where you could - join a club, try competiti...

Youngsters do like to get their grubby mitts on free stuff. Here's how us school kids got some of ours ...

Looking like a set out of "2001 A Space Odyssey" and using the Countdown typeface, you might expect this shop to b...

The top photo was taken in the early/mid 80's and has a bunch of youngsters trying out their golfing skills somewhere in Dundee. I...

These two ads from 1966 reminded me that I wasn't very keen on Meccano. We had a big box of it at home in the 60's too whic...

See if I was forced into a darkened room when I was a kid, then tied to a chair and had electrodes clamped to my ears b...

Some amusing accessories were available in the early 70's to customise your Subbuteo pitch layout. Photographers, ambulancemen, poli...

From the same Sunday Post as yesterdays books advert comes this price comparison test featuring 4 of the top selling dolls of 1973. The dol...

Probably my favourite toy from the 60's was the Spiro-matic, a psychedelic art machine for kids. I got one for Christmas the year they ...

I'm not sure how long The Toy Shop was at this spot in Whitehall Crescent, but I do have a photo of it there in the 1940's and the ...

These were good fun. You used to be able to get Action Transfers from city centre shops like John Menzies and RS McColls. The packs came wi...

A variety of things on sticks can keep young kids entertained for ages. A matter of simple but effective. This is me (yes i...

I remember being taken along to Santa's Grotto in department stores like D.M Browns, Draffens & G.L Wilsons (photo above) as a wee ...

Another quirky little item I can remember from 60's childhood is transfers. I don't recall ever buying them from shops, they just se...

Brian Sherriff's shop at 93 Victoria Road was THE place to go to get Airfix models and radio control cars. Just looking in the shop wind...

One of the most popular fads of the 60's, were Clackers. They took Dundee, and the rest of UK by storm. There was probably no street or...

Popular around the school playgrounds of Dundee in the sixties were "Caps", sometimes called keps. These were sold in rolls (as...