Former Dundee businessman James Fitchet, who was known to generations of Dundonians as the dairyman, has died after a short illness. He was 87.
Born and raised in the Rosebank area of Dundee, Mr Fitchet attended the local primary school before moving on to Rockwell High.
Aged just nine, he got his first taste of the dairy trade, helping his father, also James, out in the Rosebank Dairy in Rosebank Road which he had founded.
At 14, Mr Fitchet left school and became an apprentice engineer at Lawside Foundry, a job he kept until he joined the Royal Navy during the second world war.
After demob, Mr Fitchet returned to Dundee and again took up employment with Lawside Foundry.
In 1950, Mr Fitchet worked full-time with his father as the family dairy business was moving to a new site at Number 3 Holdings at Staffa Place.
He continued to work at the dairy on a daily basis until ill-health intervened in 1985 and he sold the business on.
Mr Fitchet is survived by his wife Ruth, children Jimmy, Hazel, Grace and Bruce and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
