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Posted by peterafifer on 10 March 2011 - 11:14pm.
I read somewhere that the opening scenes of Beeswing may have been set in Dundee. Guess who was at a meeting in an old church in Caldren Street tonight? A wee frisson for me.
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And was there a steamie?
Woman with wolfhound and bottle of White Horse?
More details please...
Lyrical convenience
Yes, there was a public washhouse ("steamie") in Caldrum Street in Dundee up until the 70s; Thompson had relatives in the city and remembered the washhouse from childhood visits. According to the man himself, there was never an intention to set the song's scene in Dundee; it was just lyrically convenient. He misspelt it as "Cauldrum".
I remember being taken to a public washouse in Sheffield..
..when I was very young, helping my mother push the washing in a pram.
..then we'd lick road clean wit' tongue.