stobievulture wrote:

looking at this pic again and noticed a few things...like st obby said the amount of people that worked in the bowbridge mill must have been huge considering that area...also both grounds must have been about on the outskirts of town when built...if you look north of dens there's no houses....they reckon that fleming gardens was the first housing scheme in Dundee...and the kingsway was built round Dundee...so not much more north of there bar a couple of villages at the time that got swallowed up as part of Dundee

 
If you look even closer I'm sure you'll see yourself in the playground of Dens Rd Primary school. What year do you think this photo was taken?

I'd say the old pic was in the 20s or 30s....the newer pic i'd wager was 1976....check the grass in the backies...burnt to a crisp..1976 was the year it was scorchio, hotest summer on record

maryfield didn't get flattened until the 80s...they built the astro when i was in first year in 1983, always mind seeing them digging it all up fae the old morgan junior school

you no a ninewells bairn?

People waving flags

FAF

Ps you must have been.brought hame to arklay street? Another slip

Anyone know the significance of this one? Although others would would have you believe otherwise.

stobievulture wrote:

Great pic Stobes.

The pitch almost looks the wrong wi round eh?

Like the players should be shooting fae the Fox to the Main Stand.

Another wee picture of Cathkin before it was abandoned.

TEK wrote:

stobievulture wrote:

Great pic Stobes.

The pitch almost looks the wrong wi round eh?

Like the players should be shooting fae the Fox to the Main Stand.

you can see the water being sprayed....great photo

Easy trivia for those in the know.

Tannadice in our finest era. Proper football and proper atmosphere. Class photo.

Edmund used to have a newspaper clip of his auld boy, who lived on Sandeman Street, when he was a bairn. He had an uninterrputed view of Tannadice before they put the roof on the Seggy. 

stobievulture wrote:

 
Very odd looking ground from the eye of a Vulture, the grass looks very scorched here, was this the 2nd hottest summer on record and year the Eagle lost his title to Jim Stirton in the Arkley St Allotment wars of 86?
Ps. Notice the Church on the corner of Tannadice St and Arkley st, yet another example of previous council crime allowing a building of historical and architectural importance to be demolished and replaced by bog standard new build flats. I think they incorporated a commemorative stone plaque on the corner of the new build. No idea what they done with the countless names of the fallen from the 1st World War that adorned the walls inside of that and many other churches they destroyed before the wrecking ball stopped swinging

Last edited by St Obswell (21/11/2014 11:57 pm)

Was the East Stand end ever known as the 'Allotment End' by Arabs btw?