THE ARCHIVES

100 years ago

The shopkeepers of Dundee are asked to co-operate in a movement for establishing a dinner hour between one and two clock on every day except Saturday. Premises will be closed from that period, and an appeal is made to the public to support them in this. The proposal has for its object the readjustment of the conditions of employment in the distributing trades in order to release the larger number of men for enlistment and other national services. The Dundee committee will report back.

50 years ago

A middle-aged bank official who was granted planning permission yesterday for a £2,000 nuclear air raid shelter which he wants to build in his garden, said: “I don’t intend to be caught napping.” Mr William Rutherford , who lives with his wife and family in a red sandstone mansion in Wester Coates Gardens, Edinburgh, said he did not believe nuclear war was imminent. He was more concerned about the safety of his wife and children in the event of a nuclear war than for his own safety.

25 years ago

At a time when fears for the future of Scottish soft fruit production are widespread, largely as a result of competition from cheap Eastern European fruit, the news of a major overseas deal for an Angus fruit grower must surely come as a welcome ray of hope for the future of the industry. Adaptability and supplying size-graded soft fruit has resulted in an export deal for 42 tonnes of individually quick frozen raspberries worth over £79,000 for Donald Morrison, Slatefield, Forfar.

One year ago

The Scottish Crannog Centre on Loch Tay will be the venue for a food celebration with a difference on Thursday. The team will be staging an Iron Age Gourmet Day between 11am and 4.30pm to explore some of the food and drink enjoyed by our ancestors. Evidence uncovered by archaeologists, both from the land and under water, has revealed that the past occupants of Loch Tay enjoyed a hugely varied diet. Visitors to this week’s event will be offered an insight into what they ate.