THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

Acting upon the intimation made that if their wages were not increased by 2d per hour they would down tools, the Dundee operative masons entered upon a strike yesterday, and so far there has been no meeting between masters and men with a view to settlement. The latter seem determined to hold out, but on the other hand, an employer interviewed states that the employers had gone all the length they could in offering an increase of 1d per hour from August 1.

50 years ago

disposal of old cars is becoming a problem in the county, Angus Planning Committee were told yesterday. Complaints were made about car dumps in Kirriemuir and Kingoldrum, in addition to the abandoning of cars by the roadside. Kirriemuir Town Clerk Mr W. G. R. Smith raised the question of cars being broken up in the former railway station. In addition the vehicles were being burned and the smoke was causing a nuisance. The committee agreed to press for action against both yards.

25 years ago

One of Dunee’s oldest traditions, the poet’s box, is to be revived in the city over the next couple of months. Between the 1830s and the 1940s, the Poet’s Box was a shop in the old Overgate which sold poems, songs and ballads, many written by people in the area. Now seven specially commissioned poets’ boxes have been set up throughout Dundee, the objective being to encourage people to enter a poetry competition in the run up to the city’s first Writer’s Festival, scheduled for July 2-4.

One year ago

An Estonian bride was surrounded by warring Belgians on a bloody Fife battlefield as her wedding celebration took an unusual twist. Brave Pilleriin Fincham was delighted to accommodate a late request from a film crew to use the grounds of Tullibole Castle, even though she and new husband David had paid for exclusive use. The normally sedate grounds were transformed into a bloody battlefield as the filming of a historical horror film went ahead. Kinrossshire was standing in for Belgium.