PAST FADES FROM VIEW

Today’s Dryburgh started taking shape seven decades ago and the district has always enjoyed a strong community spirit

Perhaps best known in recent years as the home turf of bad boy rockers The View, Dryburgh, has enjoyed its fair share of highs and lows down the decades. Today’s main picture from November 1988 is from a cheque presentation at the north-west Dundee estate’s Levi Strauss jeans factory.

The double handover at Dunsinane Avenue saw the Ninewells Hospital obstetrics

unit’s Dr John Mills and Dr Geoff James, both out of shot, collecting a cheque for £7,000 from the Levi’s

community involvement team’s chairwoman Margaret Dodds, front left, with the group’s vice-chairwoman

Linda Watson also shown

handing over a cheque for £100 to the local HIV support group’s Christine Bradbury and Billy Thomlinson. The site’s plant manager Alex McMillan is on the far right.

Above left is St Clements RC Primary School being built in March 1957 as part of the Dryburgh Housing

Scheme, with Dryburgh sheltered housing residents pictured above right enjoying

a karaoke session in 1991.

The death has taken place at Kirriemuir of Mr John Henderson, formerly the burgh’s local agent for the North British Railway.

Mr Henderson, who was a native of Montrose, entered the service in the Falkirk district and was transferred to Kirriemuir 38 years ago. During his long service he was not only a popular man with the trading public but also a faithful servant to the company.

In private life he was a keen bowler, and his figure and cheery voice were ever welcomed on the green. The deceased was about 60 years of age, and is survived by a widow and two daughters.

SAME JEANS: Dryburgh-based Levi’s stalwarts show off their charitable side as they meet health representatives in 1988.

Dryburgh OAPs get a taste of the karaoke craze in July 1991.

Workers get an aerial view of the St Clements build in 1957.