Changing the face of the City of Discovery
Built in the long defunct Dundee's Panmure Shipbuilding Yard, the Royal Research Ship DISCOVERY (left) at Discovery Point. The Frigate UNICORN (right) in Dundee's Victoria Dock surrounded by retail units in the former sheds, an hotel (centre foreground) and new residential accommodation.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
A Cessna 152 (above) on base leg for Dundee's Runway 28 parallels the Tay Bridge with the piers of the ill-fated first bridge which collapsed on 28 December 1879 clearly visible.  A late running sleeper train (right) is about to leave the Tay Bridge and make its steep decent into Dundee Train Station.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
As at October 2007 the toll plaza is still in operation, but charges on the Tay Road Bridge are scheduled to disappear by 2008.  Extensive redevelopment in the former docks area has swept away HMS CAMPERDOWN, the building which was occupied by Tay Division, Royal Naval Reserve.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Dock Street has been totally transformed in recent years, with a retail park encroaching well into the grounds of the former Dundee Corporation (later Tayside Bus) depot:  the Customs House remains, but the gas works have disappeared except for the gas holder.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The façade of Reform Street (left) and City Square (right) have not changed over the last seventy years, but recent additions to the European Union have meant there are no longer enough staffs on the roof of the Caird Hall to show the flags of all the member states.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The Old Steeple (left) looks hemmed in while St Paul's Cathedral (right) would be more visible were it not for the pattern of stone work on the spire.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The site of the former Menzies Outfitters in Princes Street has become a road junction (above) and many of the surviving mills have become flats (right). PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Riverside Drive showing Tay Bridge station with its platforms built below road level.  The railways yards and goods depots have been swept away and new buildings have sprung up on the waterfront forcing the road inland.  The walkway leading from Greenmarket to Magdalene Green is clearly visible in the photo on the right.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
A Travel Dundee bus (above) awaits to depart from the top of Crighton Street - with digitised route indicators, the trend for bus companies to paint the route along the side of the vehicle seems paradoxical - especially when buses dedicated to a specific route are pressed into service on another.  Continuing along High Street (above, left) the modern street lights recall the days of the tramcars.  A former shop has become the Clydesdale Bank while the old Clydesdale Bank building  has become an opticians - at least it's a change from a bank becoming a pub!  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Crighton Street - like so many others at this time - is under repair.  Those who remember the ex-London Transport buses acquired in the late fifties for operating mostly the Fintry route may be surprised to see a single deck bus for Fintry in Crighton Street.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Dundee Bus Station - about as far away from the railway station as you can get!  The opportunity to build a bus rail interchange next to Dundee Train Station was missed.  Accordingly the whole of the city centre has become an extended local bus stance while not all country buses operate from the Bus Station which originally catered for out-of-city buses.  Further confusion is introduced by many charter coaches picking up and setting down at Discovery Point.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Seagate (left).  A bus  heads for the city centre as it continues down Princes Street (right).  PHOTOs Malcom McCrow
Princes Street approaching the crossroads with Victoria Street/Albert Street and Arbroath Road (left).  The recently built flats on the corner of Albert Street and Victoria Street (right) face a dental surgery which has existed on the corner of Arbroath Road for over seventy years.  PHOTOs Malcom McCrow
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