Do you ever pass a pub in Dundee that’s long changed owners and names and feel sad?

I give you the former Tally Ho Bar or Fat Sam’s – home to nights of fun spanning years for many thousands of Dundonians.

Maybe it’s the Rowan Tree in Charleston – not only no longer a bar for locals to meet, but a dentist now to boot.

Like ghosts of chapters past. A chapter perhaps as a student when the West Port held the promise of a night of freedom and 3am dancing in Fatties.

Those halcyon days were replaced with responsibilities – kids, mortgages, jobs – even more special (sometimes) but oh those dolled-up nights were something.

One of my favourite – yet most melancholy – shoots on Homes Under The Hammer are disused pubs.

The lounge with its bar and gaudy carpet holding stories of real people and lives, of merry meetings, falling in love, christening drinks, wakes.

Not until I read a story this week of the Botanic Gardens’ future being in jeopardy (it has been given a year’s reprieve by Dundee University), did I think of the places in our city that belong to another very........

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