THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

All the intense excitement of a tenement fire was again experienced by residents in Overgate, Dundee, about three o’clock yesterday morning. The outbreak occurred in an attic occupied by Wm. Mcvey, labourer, and situated on the fourth floor of a back land on the south side of Overgate, between Lindsay Street and Long Wynd. Mcvey had been smoking in bed and the fire was the direct result of this dangerous practice. He and his wife were in bed in the kitchen and a lodger was asleep in the adjoining room.

50 years ago

Two young men were taken to Dundee Royal Infirmary late last night as a result of accidents on the Tay Road Bridge and in Claverhouse Road. A Mini, driven by Andrew Brown (19), Newport, overturned on the road bridge after a collision with another car. Both vehicles were heading for Dundee. Andrew was taken to hospital by ambulance and treated for an injured knee. The second accident involved a car and a bus near Claverhouse. James Chalmers (20) from the car sustained a broken nose.

25 years ago

Mighty Coca-cola has left a 13-year-old Montrose boy feeling flat. The fizz was knocked out of Allan Constable when he won and lost a holiday in the few seconds it took him to knock back his first swig of the “real thing.” Visions of sea, sand and sun bubbled up when the ringpull on the can declared he was one of the few lucky winners in a national holiday competition. Allan thought he had won a holiday for four in Florida until one of his friends pointed out that the competition had ended in February.

One year ago

Police have launched an investigation after a historic Angus church was struck by thieves. The Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese blasted the culprits after security lights were stolen from the roof of St Mary’s Church, Kirriemuir’s only Grade A listed building. The security lights had been put in place earlier this year after a failed attempt to remove lead from the roof . The Rt Rev Ian Paton, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, said: “The Church deplores crimes of theft, but also the deprivation that may drive them.”

10,000

The number of deaths from Covid-19 in Brazil.