RETRO DUNDEE

Not sure how well known these features are with those of us who are not from this part of town, so thought I'd put them up on show ...

As I bring the recent railway theme to a halt, I'm going to end it with the same topic I started it off with - the Lochee line. ...

Not exactly a brilliant picture this one but to be fair my brother was on board a train when he snapped it. It was taken in the early 70...

The top ad from 1979 has quite a lot of well known, but now long gone, BR services on display - Railfreight, Motorail, Red Star, Sealink ...

Here's a nice wee collection of old BR tickets that were on the go in the mid 80's. The large red & white ticket was probably th...

Well I've passed it often enough, but I've never actually had any reason to use Broughty Ferry Station - so for those of you ...

The top photo is a nice reminder of how Tay Bridge Station looked before it became the design it is today. The one on top being a basic ...

69333 was the only taxi service number I knew from memory back in the 70's & 80's. Even when in an alcoholic stupor, somehow ...

Germany was still divided back in 1974, but all of Scotland was united when we travelled over to the West to take on Brazil, Yugoslavia ...

In the 70's, Cathie McCabe's was the main shop in town to visit to get concert tickets for gigs in Edinburgh & Glasgow. By the t...

Mentioning Ken Hyder's global collaborations yesterday reminded me of the lesser known fact about Billy Mackenzie when he too dabbled ...

Ken Hyder took up drumming when he was still at school (Harris), and has basically, stuck to it ever since. He is one of the origi...

This bonnie mess may rekindle some pleasant trips for a few of you and unpleasant ones for the rest of you! This was mostly an early 70...

These Dundee bus tickets go back to the early 70's. Old money was still in use in 1970 hence the 8d one. In the era of bus conductors, ...

On this day 43 years ago, the Tay Road Bridge was officially opened. Also on this day 43 years ago when I was aged 8, I was playing with my...

This is Muriel, photographed in the Tay Centre Hotel lounge in April 1974. Reason for her visit was the Deep Purple gig at Caird Hall. S...

Here's a batch of local rail related images taken in the late 70's / early 80's. Top to bottom... Broughty Ferry signal box. Cam...

I started using Inter Rail cards in 1980, and this one from 1983 was my 4th and last year of travelling this way. I chose to go to Greece g...

It was good to get away from Dundee from time to time. I enjoyed travelling by train, so in the early 80's I pounced on the chance to g...