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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 19h

We have this photograph of the laying of tramlines, or possibly just the resurfacing of a road. Any ideas of where this might be? There is not date on the image but could be 1910s or 1920s.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 1d

This is a photograph looking along Whorterbank towards Burnside Street. The van is a Bedford Workbus and was first registered on 21 April 1958 with the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board.

Date: November 1958

Ref: TC/Ph/10/14/64/2

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 2d

View of Shore Terrace

Date: 1968

Ref: DCC-SA2106

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 3d

200 years ago a woman named Margaret McDonald was transported to Australia for using and passing on forged bank notes. We found her in some rare documents in the archives. This is her story. #Dundee #Archives

The Female Convict of 1825

We found an interesting series of documents tucked away in the Towns Clerk’s correspondence file of 1825.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 4d

The first batch of streets were named after places in the lake district.

You can find some more photographs of Kirkton on our Flickr page:

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 4d

The Town Council bought West Kirkton in 1925 and Magdalenes Kirkton in 1931. (East Kirkton is now park of the Caird Park) Housing was originally planned for building in 1939 at Magdalene Kirkton but the war delayed this until later in the decade.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 4d

West Kirkton Farm was where Kirkton Road East meets Kirkton Crescent. Kirkton Road was named in 1907 as a road to the farm. Magdalene Kirkton was at what is now the north end of Ambleside Avenue. “Magdalene” might be named after the wife of John Scymgeour who owned the land in the 17th century.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 4d

A place called “Maidens Kirkton” is marked on Timothy Ponts map of Angus from the late 16th century. In the 17th century it was marked as ‘Kirktown’ on maps. A Kirktown was usually a village or settlement by the parish church.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 4d

Scheme of the Week: Kirkton

The area most people know as Kirkton is actually two housing schemes called Magdalenes Kirkton and West Kirkton. As with other housing schemes north of the Kingsway, this area is named after a farm that occupied the land before the homes were built.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 5d

A view looking down Step Row

Date: 1965

Ref: BW145-08

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 6d

I think the trained midwives have a qualification from some nursing school or similar, but the "bona fide" are perhaps just experienced midwives.

Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 6d

I think the trained midwives have a qualification from some nursing school or similar, but the "bona fide" are perhaps just experienced midwives.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 6d

Possibly, I will look into it.

Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 6d

View of the construction of the Tay Road Bridge from the Dundee waterfront edge

Date: 1965

Ref: DCC-SA0964

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 7d

A curious building standing on its own.

Does anyone have any suggestions on where this might be?

You can see the Tay and a tall building beyond the lamppost.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 8d

This tram on Lochee Road was involved in some kind of accident. Its possible that someone was struck by the tram, or a car was involved.

Dudhope park is on the right.

Ref: PO

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 9d

Langlands Street from the Dura Street end.

Date: 1972

Ref: DCC-CL1010-03

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 10d

NEW BLOG POST

Temporary homes are often associated with the post-World War Two period, but did you know that Dundee built temporary homes after World War One too. Read all about them in our latest blog post: dundeecityarchives.w.... #Dundee #Archives

The Huts: Dundee’s Temporary Houses

We take a look at a temporary solution to Dundee’s housing crisis after WW1 – The Timber Huts.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 11d

All of the streets on the estate were named after hills and places in the Sidlaws.

For more images of the Industrial Estate, please see this album on our Flickr Page:

Dunsinane Industrial Estate | Flickr

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 11d

Street of the Week: Dunsinane Avenue

Dunsinane Avenue runs between Coupar Angus Road and Kings Cross Road. The name of this street was chosen by the Council's Works Committee on 6th January 1947, along with the other streets of the Dundee Industrial Estate.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 12d

Members of the Dundee Roads Cycling Club, c. 1950s

Ref: GD/X1308

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 13d

A #ThrowbackThursday post to a view from 50 years of Brown Constable Street from Dura Street.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 14d

This photograph is currently listed as an "unknown location". Can anyone help us identify where this may have been? I suspect that these buildings may no longer exist. This was probably taken in the early 1960s.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 15d

This photograph was taken on the B953 between Abernyte and Balbeggie. It was taken during a military exercise on 5th-6th April 1913. This is presumably some senior officers watching the action.

The car has the London registration LE 8817.

Ref: GD/X255

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 16d

Construction of the Overgate centre car park. In the background is the end of Bank Street into Willison Street. Robertson's Furniture can also be seen - its the white building.

Ref: DCC-SA2714

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