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

For #TransportTuesday we have a bicycle resting against a wall at the back of 20 Hillltown. We think these two men are in the doorway of the John Brown's Blacksmith shop. This photograph was taken c. 1934

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

Photograph of boys class at Glebelands Primary School. It was probably taken around 1900.

Ref: S48/5/1/1/1

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

This week's Sunday Reading is the story of a dispute between Dundee and Perth over the rights of the Tay. #SundayReading #Dundee #Archives

Admiral of the Tay

Rivals. Your arch nemesis. The Moriarty to your Sherlock Holmes. The Joker to your Batman. Rivals are a means of tension and intrigue in many books and films. They even emerge in sport. Borg vs McE…

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

The “old Overgate centre” was replaced by the current shopping centre in 2000.

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

Plans were thwarted by the start of the First World War and funds were redirected.

Plans to alter the Overgate are resurfaced in the 1950s and it was decided that much of the area should be demolished and replace with a state-of-the-art shopping centre, hotel and other amenities.

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

By the 20th century the area around the Overgate was overcrowded, in poor condition and unsanitary. Plans were drawn up as part of the Central Improvement Plan in 1912 to demolish the southern side of the street so that it could be widened.

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

It ran from the West Port to the High Street and the Mercat Cross, so was a key entry point for those approaching Dundee from the West. It was called Overgate to mean “the upper street” as opposed to the Nethergate, which meant “lower street”.

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

This street was originally called the Argyllisgait, possibly named in connection to the Campbells of Argyll. Its name first appears in the early 14th century byt 200 years or so later the name appears to change to Overgait.

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

McDonald Street looking west into Arthur Street. The College of Commerce on Constitution Road can be seen in the background

Date: unknown

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

This chart from the 1925 Medical Officer of Health Report shows the drastic improvement in preventing and treating Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the early 20th century.

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

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

View of Shore Terrace

Date: 1968

Ref: DCC-SA2106

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

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 · 10d

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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Explore this photo album by Dundee City Archives on Flickr!

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

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

A view looking down Step Row

Date: 1965

Ref: BW145-08

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

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

Possibly, I will look into it.

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

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 · 13d

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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