@C_GStrachan

Nostalgia writer for The Courier and Evening Telegraph. Sometimes seen in The Sunday Post, EE and P&J.

 Dundee
Joined February 2013
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Looking for a Christmas gift? Now's the perfect time to pick up Billy Mackay: Miracle Man. Amazon is currently running a voucher promotion, giving you an extra saving when you tick the voucher box before checkout. The offer ends on 22 November. amazon.co.uk/gp/coupon/Speci…
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Archive photos of Dundee in October 1996 show Toys R Us, Halloween fun and Beechwood’s new playpark. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Archive photos of Dundee in October 1996 show Toys R Us, Halloween fun and Beechwood's new playpark

A look back at life in Dundee in October 1996, from the opening of Toys R Us and Halloween parties to sport, schools and community events.

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Five years on from Walter Smith's death, a forgotten Weekly News interview recalls Jim McLean's wish that he had succeeded him at Dundee United. thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/fo…

Lost interview reveals why Jim McLean wanted Walter Smith as Dundee United boss

Five years on from Walter Smith's death, a forgotten Weekly News interview recalls Jim McLean's wish that he had succeeded him at Dundee United.

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Take a look at what Friday Night Out was like in Dundee in October 1986. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Take a look at what Friday Night Out was like in Dundee in October 1986

From engagement parties to dinner-dances, these October 1986 photos show Dundonians dressed to impress and enjoying a Friday night out.

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Dinamo Tbilisi manager Temuri Ketsbaia seen wearing a shirt of former teammate Georgi Nemsadze last night in their match against Rustavi. 💔
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How Dundee’s Tower Building became one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

How Dundee’s Tower Building became one of the city's most recognisable landmarks

Sixty-five years after it was opened by the Queen Mother, Dundee's Tower Building remains a defining feature of the city skyline.

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Photos of Dundee in October 1981 show Logie Street demolition, Woolworths for sale and Madness. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Photos of Dundee in October 1981 show Logie Street demolition, Woolworths for sale and Madness

Madness, The Nolans and snooker stars visited Dundee as Logie Street changed forever and ambitious plans emerged for the city's airport in October 1981.

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A new book packed with 170 rare and mostly unseen photographs looks back at 65 years of Dundee's double-decker buses. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Rare photos show the history of Dundee's double-decker buses and shifting shape of the city

A new book packed with 170 rare and mostly unseen photographs looks back at 65 years of Dundee's double-decker buses.

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Head back to Fat Sam's in 2012 thanks to our Dundee Life gallery. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Fancy dress and foamy fun at Fatties - 2012 photos of Dundee club Fat Sam's

Head back to Fat Sam's in 2012 thanks to our Dundee Life gallery.

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Why ‘Dundee is always gonna be the beginning’ for Sharleen Spiteri and Texas. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Why 'Dundee is always gonna be the beginning' for Sharleen Spiteri and Texas

From Dundee University's Tav Bar in 1988 to HMV in 1993, Fat Sam's and the Caird Hall, Dundee has played a big part in the Texas story.

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I had a wee stall here selling cheese cloth shirts and soul cap T shirts. Before I could drive I would hitch a lift in my girlfriend’s uncle’s Dundee Exoress van to the fruit market in Glasgow, and take a bus from there to the wholesalers with a couple of suitcases and a couple of hundred quid in my wallet 😁
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Dundonians flocked to Lorne Street Market during its heyday, before a huge fire left much of it in ruins in October 1981. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Did you bag a bargain at the Lochee market that drew 10,000 shoppers a week?

Dundonians flocked to Lorne Street Market during its heyday, before a huge fire left much of it in ruins in October 1981.

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Dundonians flocked to Lorne Street Market during its heyday, before a huge fire left much of it in ruins in October 1981. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Did you bag a bargain at the Lochee market that drew 10,000 shoppers a week?

Dundonians flocked to Lorne Street Market during its heyday, before a huge fire left much of it in ruins in October 1981.

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How Georgian maestro Temuri Ketsbaia brought fire and flair to Dens Park. thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/fo…

Georgian maestro Temuri Ketsbaia brought fire and flair to Dens Park

Temuri Ketsbaia's thunderous shooting and lung-bursting runs made him a fans' favourite after signing for Dundee 25 years ago.

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Shop at Wrygges and revisit the year time stood still in Lochee – photos of Dundee in October 1986. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Shop at Wrygges and revisit the year time stood still in Lochee - photos of Dundee in October 1986

Queues for cheap holidays, a clock that didn't work and a record run by Liz McColgan. Welcome to Dundee in October 1986.

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Take a trip back to Arbroath’s West Links in the 1980s and 1990s. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Take a trip back to Arbroath's West Links in the 1980s and 1990s

Retired journalist Gordon Cook shares photographs from Arbroath's West Links in the 1980s and 1990s, featuring everything from kiddie cars and Family Funtime competitions to Pleasureland, Kerr's...

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See ABC Cinema, Angus Hotel and NCR on bus trip through Dundee in 70s. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

See ABC Cinema, Angus Hotel and NCR on bus trip through Dundee in 70s

Single-deckers, double-deckers and everything in between, captured across Dundee through every season of the 1970s.

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Meet some of the barmaids who kept the drinks flowing in Kirkcaldy pubs in 1991. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Meet the Kirkcaldy barmaids who had a smile and a 99p pint for everyone in 1991

Meet some of the barmaids who kept the drinks flowing in Kirkcaldy pubs in 1991.

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Jon Stark, We Are United, Kline and Powell and Jimmy Grant return in Football Picture Story Monthly's 40th birthday revival. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

DC Thomson football comics score a return with new editions to mark 40th anniversary

Jon Stark, We Are United, Kline and Powell and Jimmy Grant return in Football Picture Story Monthly's 40th birthday revival.

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Graeme Strachan retweeted
Neville Southall@NevilleSouthallSep 19
Good morning everyone Today I will be mainly listening to Big Country ❤️
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Photos of 1974 Forfar trip take rail fans through Angus and back in time. thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-tim…

Photos of 1974 Forfar trip take rail fans through Angus and back in time

Railway enthusiast Bill Roberton shares pictures and memories from a 1974 trip on the final surviving section of the Strathmore line through Angus.

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