Where are we all

Hi Lynne - good to hear from you. Sorry to say I've never visited Derby!
Don't know when you last visited but there's lots happening here right now!!

Em..back up regularly our brothers, parents etc are there in the Ferry...only one's who haved moved away.

I had a spell living in the Ferry and a year in Barnhill, at the beginning of my teaching career. Small world.

Is this Broughty Ferry you guys are talking about? I lived in Barnhill for a year when I was a student. Used to cycle into Dundee.

Yes. The Ferry is Broughty, though there is also West Ferry where I lived for a few months until I got fed up with my landlady,,, or was it the other way round...
That was quite a cycle ride, Baggy.

Yes, it was quite a cycle ride, Annobel, but I was young and fit. What always baffled me was that whether I was cycling down the Tay estuary to the Ferry or up it to Dundee, I always seemed to cycling against the wind!

I lived in Dundee for years, had my first child there in the DRI. I took my driving test in Broughty Ferry ...no traffic lights and no Zebras then!
Been looking lately at Dundee online....changed a bit....and I am collecting old pictures, first saw the town in 1958...

Annobel...did you teach at Barnhill Primary or Monifieth high perhaps??

Baggy you must have been fit to cycle that distance ! Uphill on the way there

When I hear Broughty Ferry it brings back memories. In 1956 my father had to go and work in a shipyard and he lived in digs in Broughty Ferry. Why so memorable ? well he left home in January and my sister was born in October. Nothing unusual in having a baby except my mother was 47 and she thought her family was complete

Oxon70, I took my driving test in Broughty Ferry too!!!! Small world, indeed.

Lynne - No it was Dundee High School, just for two years until I escaped to Africa.

Well thank you ladies!
I sometimes think Dundee is seen as a bit of a backwater and you have reassured me. Hopefully you all plan to visit when the new V&A opens in a couple of years time. Plans look spectacular, jutting out onto the river.
I'll organise a party!!
Those of you who were students- Dundee Uni or College of Education?

College of Education, Park Place

lynne - same here! And my mother before me. College of Ed moved out of the city centre for a long time but is now back in the middle of the University campus in a fine new building.

Always thought Gardyne Road was a bit away from the heart of student life!

Hi all, I am from Northampton.

I am in Cornwall. Was born in Birmingham but love Cornwall.

Hi, I'm from Glasgow. Anyone else from here?

I am in Appleton Thorn, Cheshire, but possibly moving to Hartley Wintney in Hampshire next year. Does anybody live near either of those places?

Hi Supermum48. I live in Ellesmere Port, which isn't all that far from you. Do you ever visit the Outlet Village?

vanesslottie I was born in Northampton in 1941. My late parents and grandparents all proud Northamptonians. I now live beside the sea in Kintyre, Scotland.

Hi,

I'm new here. I have fetched up in Worcester (England) but like some others my father was in the forces so I happened to be born in Germany - on British territory tho'. I spent my secondary education years in Carshalton Surrey. moved to Leeds for Uni and stayed a few years, then to Cheltenham and I've been here 20 years but I feel I have no roots and don't belong anywhere. Reading where everyone else is has left me feeling dislocated and unsatisfied again. I'd move, but I can't decide where to go!! Does anyone share a sense of rootlessness?

Yes, I do, biggran. Home has to be where I am!

Yes nannym I do go to the designer outlet sometimes. Quite like Roman Originals, Marks and Spencer's outlet and Famous Footwear.

I have lived in Bedfordshire for the last 35 years, but grew up in Surrey. We have a small second home in the South of France where we spend several weeks during the summer (there as I write this!). One day, when France is no longer practical, I hope we will settle for a small place in either Devon or Cornwall as I love them both.