THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

Dundee operative bakers are on the point of giving up their unearthly working hours and after Saturday morning will no longer be early birds. The revolution in trade working is all due to the Food Controller, who has decreed that bread must be 12 hours old before it is sold. That means that bread sold must have been baked on the previous day. And what of the morning rolls? Well, there will be none. If they were baked one day and kept to the next they would be almost as tough as a bit of leather.

50 years ago

The provision of hot showers at the bathing pool was urged at Burntisland Town Council. The Pool and Sea Beach Committee had agreed to take no action to provide hot showers in the dressing-rooms of the bathing pool in the meantime. But Bailie R. Livingstone said he had seen people coming out of the pool “blue with cold” and that it was obvious that something needed to be done. He had heard that the pool supervisor had to be pulled out once because of the cold.

25 years ago

A national lottery with a top payout of one and a half million pounds was unveiled to the nation’s punters as first prize if the Tories win the General Election. Home Secretary Kenneth Baker outlined to MPs the Government framework for a flutter that could raise up to £1 billion a year to benefit the arts, heritage, sport and charities, saying the lottery, with tickets costing 50p or £1, could be running by 1994. However, pools promoters fear it could spell job losses in the industry.

One year ago

Eager Dundonians snapped up 1,200 advance tickets for Dundee Airport’s new connection with Amsterdam within two days of the route being confirmed. The uptake means that 25 seats to the Dutch capital were booked every hour within the 48 hour time-frame. Confirmation of the numbers was revealed during a meeting between Dundee West MP Chris Law and airport operators HIAL. Mr Law hailed the figures and said he believes it could give Dundee Airport a new lease of life.