Destruction of Football Pitches and Mature Trees in Dundee

[ThereIsOneILove]

trueee

[daniixxmcrxx]

:O

st pauls is my high school

i liked lawside:/

[ThereIsOneILove]

i loved lawside loads better than st.pauls but we have better stuff at st.pauls fou

[confuser69]

I see now that your original video is from two years ago. Is this what they were building here? A secondary school? That would have been like Kirkton High right? for ages 13 to 16. How about doing an updated video??? I'd like to see my old house and what it looks like now. 74 was right at the end of the street. I looked at Satellite google pics and it looks like the front garden is now a drive way. I live in northern Utah now!. See ya.!

[alanewart]

No, as far as I understand, that would have been Gillburn Primary School on the right. Kirkton High would have been maybe a mile away, due North and is now called Baldragon Academy. I'll try and get out with the camera this weekend and get No.74 and the new RC school in the frame. Kind Regards.

[confuser69]

Let me tell you a story. We left Dundee just after christmas of 79. My dad never made it back to Scotland and died here in the states of cancer around 1994. When he died we had him cremated and the mortuary told us they would hang on to the ashes forever. I'm ready to claim the ashes because I'm coming home in October. My dad used to go trout fishing with my Grandad by the Dighty Burn. I want to drop the ashes here. Do you know where the Dighty Burn is? It's just outside Dundee so I hear.

[alanewart]

Good Grief! It's been a long time since I logged on here. Yes, the Dighty is due north of here. I must try harder to do an updated video soon...

[ThereIsOneILove]

its not called kirkton high its called st.pauls but its massive fou

[confuser69]

at :20 seconds if you had turned the camera to your right that would be 74 Gillburn road.. the house I was born in 1969. When I was growing up in the 70's there were huge trees all along the road.. I left Scotland in 1979 with my family and moved to the USA. I believe Gillburn Primary school is now gone.. I remember back in 1975 or so they fixed up all the football pitches.. I remember those massive earth movers they used. Know anyone that might be 39 years old from that area?

[alanewart]

Aye, Gillburn Primary was, I think, abandoned by the education authorities in the late 1990s and, of course, empty schools in Dundee get mysteriously burned to the ground and the land sold off to housing developers. I now live in one of the houses on the site which is fine because it helped me to escape from Hell on Earth (Stobswell.) Things aren't quite so great now - loads of "House For Sale" signs since the new secondary school was built. Sorry - don't know anyone approx 39yo around here!

[MiniZee]

@alanewart I went to Gillburn Primary for a time, just before it was closed. My mum campaigned to keep it open with some other local people, to no avail.

[dundeefan3]

That place is a joke,. I grew up with that as my local football pitch, no wonder football in scotland suffers they are building on most of the pitches in Dundee. Also the traffic control is a total joke your lucky if you can move because the lights are always red and the builders just seem to park anywhere if even if its blocking the road. Its only a matter of time befor there is an accident at the junctions there.

[alanewart]

The whole thing stinks, son. Linlathen High and The Rockie are both gone forever but the Coonsul decides that it is appropriate to build schools upon football pitches.

I won't mention that this decision will allow these backhander-mad councillors to flog off another two sites to developers.

[dalecarrie534]

I understand what you guys mean about football pitches been taken away but, if you viait the inside of lawside there are windows caved in, roofs falling apart, leaks from roofs in the class rooms...we needed to move about a year or two ago! I understand from both sides of the argument.

LAWSIDE PUPIL.

[ThereIsOneILove]

its tottally gone now i live like right next to it the metal cross and everything is gone now its really sad i loved the school :{

[dumass80]

i go 2 lawside nd id rather not have to move wats rong the way it is

[alanewart]

Nothing wrong at all, son. I'm sure Lawside would have done for maybe another 15 years.

[dalecarrie534]

hi, i go to lawside as well :)

about time we got a new school, the one we have just now is falling apart :D

[dalecarrie534]

ARE YOU SILLY! SEEN THE STATE OF IT ! :o

[shugstax]

The first stump you see was one of the most impressive elms left in dundee (appprox 140 years old), it was unaffected by dutch elm disease, as you can see the timber was solid right to the pith! It was felled to make way for a footpath! "the footpath could not go around the tree because of an underground stream" however further up the road houses have been built over the watercourse! It is an outrage! motivations must be questioned!

[alanewart]

It's not only outrageous, it's disgraceful and unacceptable and it makes me sick. Some people might say that it's only some trees and a bit of open ground and that there are far worse things happen in the World. I agree but I allege that dirty deeds have been done here and that they have been done dirt cheap. Of course, I cannot prove it but I sure can smell it.

[ScoCanSteven]

Damn, St Saviours was my old High School, I left about 3 years ago. It sucks that they're closing it but if Tesco build a shop there. I'll seriously be peeved.

I don't want to be able to say "Hey, thats my old High School....right where Tesco's is". No way!

[djbigpete]

Typical Dundee City Council get rid of more leisure facilities to build things. Less open space in Dundee. There have been pitches on this site for many years. Dundee Council communities and leisure should hang their heads in shame for not fighting to keep this site for local football teams.

[ThereIsOneILove]

it has loads of leasure facilitys inside it a gym a dance studio and a swimming pool trust me i go there

[pawtucketpat123]

Dundee is nothing more than a shitty city centre surrounded by schemes. anything good in this city will soon be destroyed. probably better to blow it up and start over. fuck it, nuke the world...

[ThereIsOneILove]

shushh dundee is my hometown its a greeaaatt city right

[DangRockets]

Shocking.

Aren't people putting up a fight about the loss of the facilities?

[alanewart]

I signed a petition against it but that's about it. The council here and their friends in the construction business have the final say, I'm afraid.

[roseedee]

Ther is an all weather pitch and a grass pitch being built behind the school on the area leading up to the kingsway!

[ThereIsOneILove]

thats just for the school though i dont think youcanb just go to it and use it coz you need to be in side the school to get acces to the back of the building to get to the pitches they are called astro turf pitches though

[ThereIsOneILove]

no there is facilities being built on it