Rare photos show how new shopping centre grew from rubble of Dundee’s Overgate

The bulldozers arrived in 1961 and, within three years, the first phase of the £2 million scheme to modernise Dundee’s city centre was complete. End of an eraA 1961 view of the Overgate between North Lindsay Street and Tay Street, photographed by G. C. Bett. Concrete memoriesShoppers outside the Overgate Centre in 1994.Who could forget the long tunnels that formed part of the mall‘s distinctive design? Retail revivalEarly work on the new centre, photographed by Dickson Park in the 1990s. Yet, more than six decades after the original centre opened in 1963, the Overgate remains Dundee’s main shopping destination.