Wednesday 1 May 2013

Back to the Future.

I was approaching Dundee from Fife today via the Tay Road Bridge and was just about to get annoyed as the traffic started building up due to the roadworks when this song came on the wireless and mellowed me out...

And then I realised that the song was released in the UK in 1976. The same year as the 'most hated building in Dundee' was completed. The infamous council building..Tayside House......

Unlike Tayside House, the Gladys Knight classic will live forever so I enjoyed listening to the song as Tayside House was being demolished...

Tayside House is being removed to make way for the new Waterfront Development ( Ed : And because it looks horrible and costs a fortune to maintain) and you can monitor the progress here. The scaffolding went up about a year ago but it has to be removed carefully as there's a railway line running underneath the building.

Tayside House in it's heyday...

3 comments:

  1. It's good to walk down Reform Street and not see it sticking up behind the Caird Hall.

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  2. hi tris...I think it still peeks above the Caird Hall a little bit...I took a picture for a post I did in December....

    http://theveiledsun.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/bah-humbug.html

    It's taking an awful long time to bring the building down though. I read in the news that two of the workmen were lifted near Forfar for robbing houses. Maybe they need more workers ?
    A job for you to sort out ?

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  3. Yes here's the story in The Courier about the demo men doing some moonlighting work...

    http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus/tayside-house-demolition-men-jailed-over-thefts-1.88088

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