A walk through January’s neglect, with feelings of retrospect.
On the Downfield line, citizens are a limited find.
Buried away – they’ll not play, not till later in February.
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A description used by Catherine Fagan ( then aged 7 years) of her Dad’s journey driving a Dundee tram.
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Panmure Villa now known as Armistead House,
once used as a convalescent home for small children.
It changed and reformed into a large formidable house,
a fortunate children’s home for discarded childhood.
Could laughter echo, was there space for love?
Time passes and society convert’s, a children’s home no longer in use.
Even the child development center was not a lasting retreat,
Now the building lies dormant with a trace of what stood.
A property developer has a changing vision,
will children still dwell?
no-longer the villa, a house, the home or center,
and a new invested dream will develop and sell.
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Stobswell
Near Albert Street
Hair boutiques
And Beauty salons
Arbroath Fish Shop
Specific Security Training?
Shops that offer gents style
Campbell’s Dundee Cake Shop
Property Groups
And for meat, David Grewers and Sons
Shed59, Flowers, Ladbrokes
Pound stores
Nice and Spice for fruit
Ian’s the barbershop
Booze for you
Buttys to Take-away
SPF, Newsagents, So Good
Clarks the Bakery
And a Marrakesh café
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Mrs Irean MacCaskie had just purchased a flounder for her husbands’ Friday night tea. It had accidently fallen from her bag as she had crossed the tram line, to catch the busy five o-clock Maryfield tram. As everybody knows dog’s of Dundee are very fond of fish. A passing dog found the flounder and began to scoff it, on the line. An approaching tram failed to impress the dog with the necessity of moving, and the driver was forced to stop his car to avoid a disaster. The dog, stubborn in nature, would not move till it had eaten poor Mr James MacCaskies tea.
Inspired from a story found in the Dundee Press and Journal, Sunday the 18th of June 1921
Using a PDMS lens, originally designed by University of Houston. I placed the PDMS optical lens onto my i-phone to magnify images of the path I walked. The lens is made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a polymer with the consistency of honey, dropped precisely on a preheated surface to cure.The images create a trace of a walk through a different world.
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