Dundee Memories: Scottish Social History

The author, Ian M Malcolm, was born into a Scotland which has now almost entirely disappeared. The crowded, narrow streets of Dundee's Overgate which he describes have been replaced with shopping centres, the trams which rattled through the streets have long been silenced and Dundee University campus now stands on the site which used to be Hawkhill's busy community centre.

In Dundee Memories, the routine and atmosphere of Dundee life in the twenties, thirties and forties is expertly recreated. Ian describes growing up in a Blackness Road Tenement, through evacuation, employment in Dundee's thriving jute industry and his eventual entrance in the Merchant Navy. He recalls in vivid detail the habits and incidents of an almost forgotten time.

Includes numerous historical photographs and illustrations.