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Dundee and River Tay
About the group Memory Slain - How Old Dundee was taken away from us.
Created 26 June 2012
Does anyone know which clubs played on the football pitch/sheep grazing plot shown in SPW060068, 069, 070, and 071? These photos are of the Mid Craigie area. My grandparents moved into the area after the war (I think)and their house is not yet built in these photos. Family lore says that my Granda was a trainer with the Maitland Thistle Football Club around this time. Could there be a connection? Would appreciate any info at all.
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How right the post on June 27th is but in the fifties and sixties most of the demolition of Dundee was because of dodgy dealing in the Council. One of them owned a demolition business.
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Knock it down and replace it with something cheap and nasty- how planners thought in the 50's and 60's. Big mistake was bringing the road bridge into the heart of the city- it could have been curved to land fall at Riverside Drive (disruption to the Fifies could have been overcome). Then we could have kept and modernised the docks with a marina, shops, houses, and a safe play area. The old baths would have made a fine maritime and whaling museum. It was sheer vandalism to demolish the 90 ton steam crane at Victoria dock- a steam classic (google it). It should have been preserved. The old West Station building was a fine looking building, also demolished. Now they plan a bland looking station hotel on the same site. I could go on.
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We had it all Royal Arch, The Pillars and dodgy council dealings
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