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January 24, 2024
Tay Road Bridge tolls were unwanted from the start but remained in place for 42 years, before finally being scrapped in February 2008.
January 9, 2024
The Royal Arch in Dundee was doomed for the wrecking ball 60 years ago and it was demolished in February and March 1964.
January 6, 2024
We've rounded up a few of our favourite street art murals in Dundee city centre and the surrounding neighbourhoods.
January 3, 2024
We’ve rewound the clock and opened DC Thomson’s archive to see what life was like in Dundee in 1964 in pictures.
August 7, 2023
A Hoboken tenant's GoFundMe page has been restarted as housing advocates await a decision on an appeal filed over a ~$1,700 rental hike.
August 18, 2022
Plans were backed to build a double-decker road crossing from Dundee to Fife on the surviving stumps of the ill-fated Tay Rail Bridge.
August 17, 2021
Before the Tay Road Bridge was built in 1966 - plans were once drawn up to build a tunnel under the sea between Dundee and Fife.
April 16, 2021
Life before the Tay Road Bridge: Journeys across the river aboard the Fifies The Scotscraig crosses the River Tay. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Almost 55 years ago the death knell rang on the Tay Ferries, or The Fifies as they were more affectionately known, which transported Dundonians across the Tay for 145 years. Locals u...
March 14, 2021
Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history International Women’s Day on Monday was a reminder of the many Bolton women who have played an important role in society – not just locally, but on the national stage. Four of them are Sarah Reddish, Alice Foley, Alice Collinge and Susan Isaacs Sarah Reddish (centre) with the the Bolton...