Dundee Concrete

Dundeeconcrete.com is dedicated to information about Dundee's first, purpose built, concrete skatepark. Situated in Dudhope Park, Dundee, Scotland, overlooking the city and the River Tay. View the old website archive → Ask us a question or submit your own articles, photos, links etc:

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“Old School Dudhope” and “Wallride Army” shirts available to buy now

Dudhope Skatepark has recently passed the milestone of its 15 birthday on the 27th of February, so it’s only fitting to re-issue some shirt designs that Daryl Smith designed around the same time. Profits from sales of the “Old School Dudhope” and “Wallride Army” shirts help support Dudhope Skatepark and all things Fundee.

The shirts are made from 100% GOTS certified organic cotton and printed in the UK (honestly, they are super comfortable, possibly the comfiest t-shirt I’ve ever owned!). There are adult and kids sizes available in various colours:

https://lifesizedclothing.com/collection/supporting/

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Trees has been posting regular edits from action at Dudhope over on his YouTube channel, check out his latest edit above and go subscribe to his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12X7cN1DMXAtzK9jBkNiJg

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It’s been a while... :) (March 2021 Edition!)

Yep, this site has been pretty dormant for a long time, it may be time to get it a bit more active again 🤷🏻‍♂️😀

If you haven’t seen it you can find the archive of the original website with the construction diary of Dudhope Skatepark which I recently managed to get back online: http://archive.dundeeconcrete.com/

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A bit of drone / GoPro footage at Dudhope Skatepark submitted by Dale from rising view.co.uk

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Support Newport Skate Park Collective's fundraising efforts, buy a t-shirt!

These NSPC T shirts are for sale for £12 to raise money for Newport Skate Park Collective! If you want one please leave a comment on there NSPC Facebook page with your size and colour preference (black or white). Profits will go towards the construction of Newport Skate Park.

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Footage filmed circa 1990 in the original Factory skatepark that was on Arthurstone Terrace / Erskine Street in Stobswell, Dundee.

Skaters include Nick Johnston, Rick Curran, Aaron Woolley, Andy Dobson, David 'Smod' Smith, a young John Rattray and others.

This is footage filmed fairly near the end of this Factory's existence, you can see the burned out bit of the ramp in some of the footage, this got repaired again but it wasn't too long after this that it that we lost pretty much the whole thing to fire just days before we were due to move all the ramps out after we'd been kicked out of the building.

(I've set a date for this video ad 7th June 1990 in Youtube, no idea how accurate that is!)

Thanks to Iain Bailey for sending me this footage!

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Jack Walker giving a riprospective shred of Dudhope.

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Dudhope Skatepark Extension provisional start date

Just a heads up that we are provisionally looking at 17th June (yes, this month!) for work to start on the extension work at Dudhope Skatepark. It will take 3 - 4 weeks for the work to be done, at the moment the situation isn't entirely clear as to whether the park will have to be completely closed for the duration of this work.  However, it is hoped that the park will be open for people to skate but some areas closed off to allow work to be done. But there will definitely be days where the park will have to be completely closed due to machinery etc being brought on site, concrete etc. So we definitely need people to be patient during this period and if the park is closed off please don't go jumping fences to get in as this will only slow things down. We'll try our best to keep people notified of when the park will be out of use. We've still to completely confirm June 17th as the start but for now keep a note of that date and expect some disruption for 3 - 4 weeks from that date, and remember we'll have some cool new concrete additions to the park once it's all done so it's worth a little bit of disruption!

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Newport Skatepark Public Consultation

The Newport Skatepark group are hosting a public consultation for the proposed skatepark in Newport, Fife (across the bridge from Dundee) on Sunday 26th May between 12pm and 4pm. Please come along to the Waterstone Crook Sports Centre and show your support. There will be a presentation, walk thru, Q&A, (rumoured to be free sausage rolls! ;)

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Happy Birthday Dudhope Skatepark! 7 years old today!

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Have you seen him?

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Thursday, June 21st is Go Skateboarding Day

http://www.goskateboardingday.org/

Also if you're on Instagram and Twitter don't forget to post images etc: http://www.goskateboardingday.org/blog/2012/06/20/instagram-and-twitter-takeover-on-gsd/

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Another great bit of video editing of / from Mr Rattray. Also check out the Predatory Bird boards and shirts which are looking great!  http://www.thepredatorybird.bigcartel.com/

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Skate and Create

I recently came across this great video series by DIY America, it's all about skateboarding and creativity, I thought I'd embed 6 of them here for easy viewing. There's supposedly 12 in the series but I could only find the first 6. They are all in HD so click full screen for better viewing.

Skate and Create: Episode 1

Skate and Create: Episode 2

Skate and Create: Episode 3

Skate and Create: Episode 4

Skate and Create: Episode 5

Skate and Create: Episode 6

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Please vote for Dudhope Skatepark in the Transform Your Patch public vote!!!

We are in with a chance of some funding which will allow the "bite" extension and some other additions to the skatepark in Dudhope Park to be done!

http://www.transformyourpatch.com/vote/details/skatepark-bite-extension

You can vote every week, spread the word and come back regularly to vote!

You can find out more about the extension plans on this page.

If you can post the link in as many places as possible that would be great, you can use the hashtags #DundeeSkate #Patch on twitter too!!!