THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

Official intimation was given by Provost Thomson at a meeting of Montrose Town Council of a development which will mark a turning point in the industrial progress of the burgh. Ground is to be offered to feu by the town to the extent of about 13½ acres. It is on the east side of Rossie Island and adjoins the ground belonging to Joseph Johnston & Sons, Ltd. which is three acres and forms the point of the island. The company projecting the scheme is the Union Ship Engineering Co. Ltd.

50 years ago

Representatives from several interested bodies met in Cupar yesterday to co-ordinate their case against the proposed closure of the Newport-Dundee railway line. The meeting was between members of Fife Roads Committee, Newport Town Council, Cupar District Council and the Newport and District Transport Action Committee. After a 90-minute meeting, it was reported that they had formulated the presentation of their case which will be heard in Newport on February 15.

25 years ago

Plans for a£275m privately financed second road bridge across the River Forth were unveiled. It would be built alongside the existing bridge, opened at a cost of £12 million in 1964, and form part of a package of proposals to tackle Edinburgh’s traffic congestion. The package, costing £400 million in total, with the private sector footing most of the bill, involves Edinburgh being included in a national research project into “road pricing”, which could mean drivers charged to enter the city.

One year ago

A male driver lost his life in a tragedy on the A90 in the early hours of yesterday. The man was in a car that crashed into the back of a parked articulated lorry in a layby between Dundee and Forfar. Accident investigators spent hours at the scene of the collision, on the northbound carriageway at Gallowfauld, between Happas and Muiryfaulds. In a separate incident, a tanker driver had a lucky escape after his lorry was engulfed by flames. Forfar firefighters attended the scene.