Ian M. Malcolm was born into a Scotland which has now almost entirely vanished from memory. The crowded, narrow streets of Dundee’s Overgate which he describes have been replaced with shopping centres; the trams which rattled through the city streets have long been silenced, and Dundee University campus now stands on the site which used to be Hawkhill’s busy community centre. In Dundee Memories, the routine and atmosphere of Dundee life in the twenties, thirties and the wartime years before he entered the Merchant Navy are expertly recreated. From his earliest memories as a toddler in a Blackness Road tenement through childhood fun and games, to evacuation and then eventual employment in Dundee’s thriving jute industry, Ian recalls in vivid detail the habits and incidents of times past.
First published as a series of articles in the Dundee Courier, Dundee Memories is not merely a piece of entertaining nostalgia, but a part of social history which will appeal to young and old alike. It is both a portrait of a city which was completely transformed over the last century and an intimate memoir of growing up in Scotland.
Ian M. Malcolm joined the Merchant Navy in July 1943, and his first ship was bombed and torpedoed in the Mediterranean. He later became Principal Teacher of Modern Studies at Viewforth High School in Kirkcaldy.
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