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Lots of really good folk in Dumbiedykes. I enjoyed that, thank you!

Just think if they had refurbished rather than demolished, there'd be some very desirable places to live in Embra

My Grandma grew up in the old Dumbiedykes, great to have some appreciation of what her life and her local community was like.

I enjoyed watching this, it is a great piece of social history, my great-aunt lived in View Craig Gardens from when they were built to about 2010. I visited her frequently in the 80s and 90s and never had any problems , I remember the area with fondness.

R.I.P Andy i miss you my friend and think of you often. I wish you were here to see Dumbiedykes now xxx What a great video it brings back so many faces and memories.

Ah Andrew.. Long may your legacy live on.

I moved into the Dumbiedykes when I was 7yrs old ,they had just completed the new buildings, 3 kids mum&dad , we were in a stair where there was 18 kids and I believe most of the blocks within the scheme had about the same number in the family apartments, then there was the single roomed flats which was mostly O.A.Ps, stairs were washed weekly and kept clean as the council had the right to come down on top of you for not taking care of their property,, in they days most people worked the kids like myself played about the streets with some fantastic friends and used the C.Y.P where we used the youth club.Great times, however people grow up and leave and I felt a lot of the people they were letting in had social probs, I personally tried to get a flat here and couldn't I was told it was only priority!, maybe if they had allowed folks who grew up in the area to remain in the area things would've been a little better, mum&dad still there and find it very difficult with all the anti social behaviour that goes on, but I think that is a government problem that needs to look at placing people with drink &drug issues in with a community where families are trying to live, care in the community does not work. Very sad to see the state of the Dumbiedykes, it's not the houses it's the people that are living in them and dragging it down where decent hard working people who are trying to live cannot and therefore look to move away. Maybe that's the big plan ?! Get decent folk out and then SELL OFF prime land !!!!