The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
THE ARCHIVES
100 years ago
The historic relic, the sole Jacobite flag saved from Culloden, is to be housed in Dundee. The flag has been presented to the city by a prominent citizen, Mr J. Henderson Stewart of Fingask Castle, and will be placed among the other historic flags in the Albert Hall of the Albert Institute. It is interesting to recall that the flag was the only one of the Jacobite colours preserved from destruction at Culloden. The colours carried by Sir James Kinloch’s battalion, the second of Lord Ogilvy’s Forfarshire Regiment, escaped burning.
50 years ago
There’s hardly a corner of either Angus, Perthshire, Kincardineshire or Aberdeenshire that hasn’t seen a “Gellatly’s of Brechin” bakery van. The wholesale bakery and grocery firm has gradually consolidated its position as one of the largest and most enterprising firms in the north-east of Scotland. The range of bakery goods is always being reviewed to maintain interest in the buying side. The firm has four shops in Brechin alone, plus a tearoom and snack bar.
25 years ago
Dundee-born tenor Mark Wilde, a lay clerk at the Queen’s Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle, gives a recital at the Dundee University Chaplaincy on May 22. Mark grew up in the city and was a chorister and lay clerk at St Paul’s cathedral. He won several scholarships and gained BA Hons in music from the University of East Anglia before continuing his studies at the Royal College of Music. Mark will be accompanied by William Stevenson, with whom he studied piano in Dundee.
One year ago
Veteran striker Kenny Miller has been installed as the bookies’ favourite to replace Jim McIntyre as manager of Dundee FC. The Dark Blues announced yesterday McIntyre and assistant Jimmy Boyle had been sacked. It came a week after the team’s relegation from the Ladbrokes Premiership was confirmed with a home defeat to Hamilton Accies. McIntyre, who was appointed in October, won only four matches during his time in charge of the club, including Saturday’s 1-0 victory away to Livingston. Fans backed the decision.