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The first game of the 2026 World Cup is tonight in Mexico City. With the parrot (and monkey), this photo looks more like Mexico rather than Dundee. Read more about the picture here: dundeecityarchives.w...
Date: c.1913
Ref: GD/MUS230/8/1
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Mains Castle. Man with cows in the foreground
Date: n.d.
Collection: Engineers Negatives Collection (GD/Mus230)
Reference: GD/MUS230/14/1/11
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Time for another #WhereisitWednesday. Where in Dundee do you think this was taken? Put your answers in the comments.
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Dens Brae Looking North
Date: c.1930s
Ref: Sanitary Department Album 4 Photo 8
An Dundee Rep Youth Project Event just outside the Overgate centre.
Date: July 1984
Ref: GD/X1384 Dundee City Centre Tray 2
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View of Dundee from Fife featuring a ferry upon the River Tay
Date: c.1920
Collection: Engineers Negatives Collection (GD/Mus230)
Reference: GD/MUS230/10/9
Roadworks on Blackness Road at the Junction with Brook Street. This is now a circle on the new Hawkhill road.
Rear of tenements on Burnett Street can be seen (now demolished). Blackness School can be seen on the left.
Date: c.1950s
Reference: GD/MUS230/14/1/19
Have we got a World Cup blog post for you! It's got Dundee, Football, Mexico, Canada & the USA. Plus the first club in Mexico to win the league - which just so happens was started by a Dundonian. Did Dundee give Mexico football? 🤔 dundeecityarchives.w...
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A discovery in a school admissions register takes us into the tale of a family in Mexico and how Dundonians helped to introduce football to the country