The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
The Dundee pilot cutter, Tay, which was recently sold to a Sunderland firm after nearly 60 years’ service on the Tay, yesterday left the port for Bonarbridge after being thoroughly reconditioned. The pilotage service is at present being carried on by the sailing cutter Daydream, the charter of the steam drifter Northesk having expired. It is considered that the acquisition of a steam cutter would be of material assistance in the work of the pilotage service. The Harbour Trustees are considering several vessels.
50 years ago
Builders working on the renovation of Inverquharity Castle, northeast of Kirriemuir, have discovered a mystery room. The room, set between the second and third floors, has no access from inside the castle. But there is half-bricked-up doorway high in an external wall where another wing once stood. Site foreman Mr Harry Blythe said: “We’ve no idea what the room is or what it contains. The plans we have only show the four floors and as this room is set between floor levels, it’s not shown on them.”
25 years ago
Members of the Dundee Alliance Against the Criminal Justice Act were told to abandon their protest yesterday against the M77 Glasgow motorway – in the interests of safety in Dundee. The group were staging a demonstration against the motorway on the pedestrian bridge on Kingsway East facing the busy Pitkerro Road roundabout when a car collided with the kerb and careered up the central reservation. No one was hurt in the incident, but police advised the demonstrators to move their protest elsewhere.
One year ago
There were calls last night to reopen an axed mental health unit in Angus. It comes after campaigners claimed “concrete evidence” emphasised how valuable the Mulberry Unit was to local residents. Figures released under Freedom of Information revealed Angus mental health patients have spent 17,000 days receiving treatment in Dundee since radical care changes. The unit at Stracathro Hospital closed to acute in-patients in 2017 due to a shortage of junior doctors – forcing Angus patients to uproot to Dundee.