Dundee  
Hawkhill and Blackness Road and the Law  

The West Port, Saturday 22 September 2007

   

Some things do not change - firemen still come down a pole, but Fire Brigades in Scotland have become Fire and Rescue, although only Grampian Fire and Rescue have deserted red fire engines for white.  By 2014 Tayside Fire and Rescue had been absorbed into the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Blackness Road - old meets the new.  Tayside Fire and Rescue HQ and new flats - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Tayside Fire and Rescue Headquarters, Blackness Road.  The main road now leads on to Bellfield Street which connects with the new dual carriageway Hawkhill - - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Viewed from the Blackness Road Fire Station during an open day, new houses in Edward Street (left) and Larch Street (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Flags above the Centre for Islamic Studies in Blackness Road near Wilkies Lane (left) and the Jamia Mosque in Milne Street (right) which is Dundee's first purpose-built mosque - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The junction of Blackness Road and Hawkhill (left) and the Transport and General Union's building in Blackness Road (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Blackness Road looking west towards Bellfield Street (left) and Hawkhill (right)  - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Blackness Road viewed from the new Hawkhill (left).  Old Hawkhill has been almost totally absorbed by the University of Dundee - the Welcome Trust Biocentre in Old Hawkhill (right) which in days gone by would have led to the Blue Mountains - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The massive building of the Welcome Trust Biocentre which forms part of the University of Dundee complex - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Not all the old buildings have been swept away as can be seen in this view of Bellfield Street leading back towards Blackness Road  - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Dudhope Castle is the white building in the foreground.  The red building in the left hand photograph is part of the former Dundee Royal Infirmary - a listed building which has become flats - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The original Dundee Royal Infirmary (left) has also been split up into flats.  Multi-storey flats in Ann Street and at the Foot of the Hilltown (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Dundee Law and War Memorial viewed from Blackness Road - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

April 2015 and unintended consequences perhaps as the woods begin to dominate the Law - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Take a seat and admire the [obscured] view - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The view to the north and north east.  It is now virtually impossible to see Dens Park and Tannadice - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Maybe the view to the south and east will be possible for a few more years - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Bellfield Street looking towards Hawkhill (left) and former mill complex converted into small business units and accommodation off Brown Street (right)  - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Blackness Road between Annfield Road and Peddie Street has changed little over the years, unlike most of the surrounding area - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Camperdown and Balgay

 
The long drive leading to Camperdown House - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The view over the golf course from Camperdown House - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

A heavy frost coats Camperdown Park on the last day of January 2006 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The Law (left) and Coxes Stack (right) viewed from Lochee Park - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The entrance to Balgay Park - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The Mill's Observatory in Balgay Park (left).  The now closed over-bridge, also in Balgay Park (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The wooden bear at the entrance to Camperdown Zoo (above) braves the frost while the European brown bears remained out of sight in their den.  But Donkey was out and about (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Lynx (left) and wolf (right) are among the animals which are housed by the zoo - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

An ice rink, multiplex cinema and fast food outlets near the entrance to Camperdown Park - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Saltire in the sky (above). With road, railway and airport paralleling the Gardens, the tranquillity can be interrupted.  Visitor form the United States (right) on Tuesday 6 June 2006 is an IAI 1125 Astra, N630S - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

University of Dundee Botanic Gardens - June 2006

Australian paper bark tree (above).  Sir Garnet Wilson's Tree (left) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Rhododendron - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
University of Dundee Botanic Gardens When we're cleaning windows . . . .    PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Hot House Plants                                                           PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Conifers . . . . . . and deciduous                              PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Laburnum A way to the woods                          PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Ducks and drakes Duck and chic  - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Dundee Riverside Drive - Water Board and abstract art in  (left).  Tay Bridge glimpsed between the buildings (right).  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Sinderins

Lunchtime . . . Second sitting, as the gulls arrive.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

"Silver music from the bandstand . . .", but not today. "Up the hill . . ."  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Jute Works to Flats . . . Was it ever imagined in 1861?  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

"Backies " . . . PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

. . . and "Pletties" PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Railings . . . Steps . . . .  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Garrats . . . Formal fronts . . . .  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Neighbourhood watch . . . round in circles.  PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Lochee

 

Coupar Angus road viewed from the ramparts of Lochee railway bridge (left).  Lochee High Street (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

A Gemini Eclipse on route number 28 - the subject of a recent Corgi model in Travel Dundee livery - in Lochee High Street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Lochee wynds - St Mary's Lane (left) and Old Muirton Road showing the distinct multifaceted stonework of  James Gowans' Lochee Station building (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Looking towards the site of the former Camperdown Jute Works (left).  The Railway Tavern (right) near Lochee Station - but the trains disappeared in the 1960s - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

A Lochee high rise block - the unguarded ladder demands a head for heights - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

A closed Victorian post box (left) - hopefully it will find a good home rather than end up as scrap.  The water tower in Yarrow Terrace (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The Corgi model Wright Gemini Eclipse alluded to above

- PHOTO Malcolm McCrow

 

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