Pass to the pictures

A CRAIGIE reader asks: “Does any Forfar reader remember in the early 50s when tattie gathering finished and the final pay packet contained a note which read: “Thank yae for doing a fine job of gathering in the potatoes”?

“Also enclosed was a ‘free’ pass to one of the local cinemas. The firm was Renilson Potato Merchants. The late Mr Renilson was a former provost of Forfar.” “THE PHOTOGRAPH of Lucibell’s ice cream shop brings back happy memories of hot summer days and delicious ice-cream,” emails David Gourlay of Arbroath.

“In the late thirties and during the war we lived in Dudhope Crescent Road, just minutes away from the shop.

“Other shops in our street were Zacarinni’s chip shop, a DPM (Dundee Pasteurised Milk) which sold wonderful cream cookies with a slice of mandarin emails Tony Connor, “which has an interesting inscription on the lid.

“It says: Presented to Dr J S Y Rogers MBCM, by the directors of the Dundee Football Club in appreciation of services rendered 23 Jan., 1909.

“I wondered if any of the Craigie readers know anything of its history and, out of interest, was the good doctor one of medicine or another discipline?” orange inside, a herbalist/apothecary, a Johnny a’ things and then Monteith’s newsagent and general store.

“The picture above shows me on a trike with Sonny O’Brien on pillion and my sister Aileen behind. Also Mrs O’Brien is pictured on the left, an unknown gentleman and my mother, Lena Gourlay, in front of Montieth’s.”

Audrey Brown of Dundee has also been reminiscing about Dundee businesses. “My father ran Fitchett’s dairy in Rosebank Road,” she says, “and I used to help deliver it when I was a young girl.

“At the foot of the Hilltown, I used to notice that at one particular shop there was always a long queue, with most of the people in it standing in the close.

“My mother told me that the people were waiting for the pawn shop to open and didn’t want others to see them. I am 86 now, so this would be in the 1930s.”

“On a Friday, I saw them all again waiting to get their clothes etc. back.”