| Dundee City Centre and Hilltown | |
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| Dundee Law (left) and Craigowl (right) form respective backdrops to the City PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| New flats (left) Old mills (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Shopping Centre (left) Shopping Lady (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Panmure Street PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Once the Albert Institute, now the MacManus Galleries (left) Chamber of Commerce (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| D C Thomson Building - home to Desperate Dan (D C Thomson publish, among other things, the Dandy and Beano comics) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Ward Road (above) and the Courier Building (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| High School of Dundee PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| "Robert Burns was born in Ayr, and now he sits in Albert Square . . . " . . . and also in New York - and there are further identical statues in Dundedin and on the Thames Embankment in London. An identical statue of Robert Burns by the same sculptor exists in Poets' Corner in Central Park, New York City. Sculpted: 1880 Sculptor: Sir John Steell 1804-1891. The statue was a gift of Scottish-Americans to New York. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Samuel's Clock - a favourite meeting place down the generations. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Reform Street - sealing the trash cans in preparation for the Party. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The police keep an eye on Desperate Dan and Minnie the Minx . . . and everyone else outside the City Chambers. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| But where's the Party? (left) No coins in the fountains (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Overgate from a cordoned off City Square (left) Hoping to be noticed (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Dundee's Dragon keeps an eye on model of the Royal Arch - the original was demolished to make way for the Tay Road Bridge. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| City Churches and Old Steeple (left) Nethergate (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Fancy tops in Nethergate (left) Commercial Street/Seagate right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Murraygate and replicas of the street lamps that once supported the tram wires. The original tramlines were lifted and ornamentally re-laid after street refurbishment. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| St Andrews Street and former Customs bonded warehouse. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Time stands still - the Hilltown Clock looking rather uncharacteristic in its new-look pink (2005). PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Old and new buildings complement one another - the old Dundee Savings bank in Stirling Street (left) and its recently built companion. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Hilltown from Alexader Street PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Anne Street . . . keeping watch (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Views from Forebank Street PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Contrasting architecture - old and new church buidlings PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Top of the Hilltown (left) Cox's Stack (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Reach for the sky . . . Looking towards Broughty Ferry (left) Balgay Park (right) PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Rival football grounds hide behind multis (left) while familiar landmarks - Dundee Royal Infirmary building, Dundee College and Tayside House - dominate the cityscape (right). PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| "O, beautiful railway bridge of the silvery Tay . . . ." (William McGonagall) | O, beautiful road bridge of the silvery Tay? PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
| Tayside Today | |