60 Annfield Road, Dundee?

[omap]

Can anyone help here?  I have had ancestors living, married and born at 60 Annfield Road for almost 100 years and yet when I searched the address on Google Earth what I get is an industrial area!!  And the industrial area appears to have been there forever with some really ancient buildings.  In saying that across the road is a vacant grassy area.  Could it be that there used to be row houses on that grassy area as recent as 1981 but have since been demolished? 

My sister travelled from Canada to visit  my great Aunt Mary Allan Lorimer at 60 Annfield Road in summer 1981 and she distinctly remembers there being row houses two stories high and she had to go round back to access the stairs to my great Aunt's 2nd floor appartment.  She said in back of the row houses was a grassed area with tables and she spoke to the ladies sitting there sunning themselves.

Any help on where to find out what happened to the row houses would be appreciated.

Thanks...MJ

[jobarnesmum]

I cant help but wonder if the good people at TVFHS can help

find them here http://www.tayvalleyfhs.org.uk/

Jo

[bleckie]

Hi Mj

have a look at the link below it is the street map for Dundee 1870 over current google map.

From memory I think the houses in anfield road were demolished mid to end 80s.

http://geo.nls.uk/maps/towns/dundee1870/openlayers.html

yours Aye
BruceL

[Lisaw]

Hi MJ,

Did your sister happen to take any pictures of the row houses? My family lived at, if memory serves correctly, 13 Annfield Row (not sure if Row or Road) & 16 Annfield Street.
Does anyone know if this entire "Annfield" area (street, row & road) was demolished?
Thanks,
Lisa

[omap]

Thanks Jo......will try them.

Bleckie:  Thanks for the info.  I tried the Google overlay but couldn't get it to zoom in.  I did Google Earth the address, zoomed in and saw the street view of the industrial area on the west side of Annfield Road and the open grass field on the west side of Annfield Road.  It's a huge grassy area.  I assume the grassy area must be where the row houses used to be. 

Lisa:  My sister is going to look for pictures she took on her trip to Dundee.  She is presently finishing building her new house (living in it at the moment) and everything is still in boxes, so it could be awhile before she locates the pictures. 

[breaky]

Hope this link works

www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/bartholomew/view/?id=1208

Go west up the Hawkhill road.


breaky

[omap]

Thanks Breaky....that map is awesome.   From doing the Google Earth street view I can relate to the buildings on the west side of Annfield Rd but strangely on this map it does not show the buildings on the east side.  I guess it doesn't show ALL the buildings.  At any rate the map is awesome.  Thanks again.  Will forward this site to my sister and see if these areas ring any bells.

MJ

[breaky]

Oops - I'd forgotten I have the Alan Godfrey edition of the 1901 map of Dundee (South).

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

This does show houses on the east side of the road, near the Hawkhill end. 

On the back of the single map sheet, however, are printed a couple of pages of "directory extracts from a 1901 edition for Dundee" -

Number 73 Annfield Road has

Cathro, Miss H., dressmaker
Urquhart, J.T., telegraphist
Robertson, John, photographer
Lorimer, W.K., baker
Bogue, John, waste merchant.

(The church further up the road is Martyrs Free Church).

breaky

[omap]

That is so incredibly cool Breaky.....you just solved a mystery.  I knew my Great Aunt Mary's son lived just a block or two away....and you just gave me his initials....W.K. Lorimer.  My sister couldn't remember his first name.  This will jog her memory.   Does it list the residents of 60 Annfield Rd. on the back of those sheets by any chance?