Each week, we will take you on a trip back in time with a selection of photographs picked from DC Thomson’s vast archives. This week, the focus is on Longforgan.
Our first image shows a group of young boys picking strawberries at Star Inn Farm. The picture was taken on July 15 1985.
The second photo shows the road leading up to the main entrance of HMP Castle Huntly. The photo is undated. Any ideas when it might have been taken?
In the third picture, from June 17 1981, green-fingered youngsters at Longforgan Primary School can be seen at work overhauling old folks’ gardens. One garden in particular to have benefitted from the pupils’ enthusiasm belonged to Mrs Margaret Ness, an old lady who was no longer able to look after it herself.
The fourth picture, from January 13 1981, shows the engineering workshop at HMP Castle Huntly. Inmates, whose faces have been blanked out to preserve their identities, can be seen learning milling and turning.
Afghan hound Zorba and Melissa Houston can be seen hanging out at a dog show in the village in the fifth picture, from April 13 1981. The show was held to raise money for Longforgan Parish Church steeple which had been damaged by lightning in the summer of 1980.
The final image, from May 10 1983, shows thatchers Richard Tratt (left) and Christopher Fade working on the roof of The Quoins Cottage in the village’s Main Street. A video of the work was made for the British Institute of Architects to illustrate lectures on thatching.
