THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

A grand opportunity for the public of Dundee and district to witness a game of baseball – the greatest game in America – will be presented at Dens Park on Saturday, when two crack teams from the United States will bring off a championship contest between the Eastern and Western States. Baseball is a game that grips one with intense enthusiasm from start to finish and it is unlike most games in so far as it furnishes exciting incidents at every stroke. One must keep attention riveted on the field.

50 years ago

If there had been such a thing as the freedom of Kelty, Mr John McQueen would have been given the accolade. But since there wasn’t, the business community of Kelty did the next best thing. When Mr McQueen, manager of the Kelty branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, announced his retiral, people in the business life of the area unanimously decide to honour him in their own fashion. This week two busloads of his friends were among those who travelled to the Gartwhinzean Hotel, Powmill.

25 years ago

Tayside Regional Council is planning to encourage development of quality sites to provide more than 9,000 new houses in Dundee by the year 2006 in an attempt to reduce population loss in the city. The region also proposes to encourage strategic improvements in transport which it hopes could eventually lead to a ro-ro ferry link to Europe from Dundee harbour, an upgrading of the A85 to motorway status and a by-pass to the west of the city linking the A85 with the A929 to Aberdeen.

One year ago

Work has begun on Dundee’s V&A Museum community garden. Volunteers reacted to a call to arms and helped place plants into the community space yesterday morning. The garden itself was created by both green-fingered volunteers and professional designers. According to V&A Dundee director Philip Long, the community garden and the V&A itself are for the whole city, not just for tourists: “We’ve worked very hard to help make the V&A something that is at the heart of the community.”