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The Verdant Works Museum

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:42:56 +0000

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Dundee, a city renowned for Jute, Jam and Journalism. In the 18th century the city was already an established centre of textile production, mainly in linen, and made huge quantities of sail cloth for Europe. By the 1830s, jute was produced to supplement linen production and gradually took over until the city became known as ‘Juteopolis’. Janet Keillor, discovered marmalade in the late 1700s. She came upon the recipe through trying to find a use for bitter Seville oranges. Her recipe was developed by her son, James Keillor, who opened Keillor’s factory, famous the world over for producing jams and marmalades. DC Thomson, publishers of The Beano, The Dandy, The Sunday Post and the People’s Friend, was established in 1905 and still employs around 2000 people to this day. It is the home of Dennis the Menace and the Bash Street Kids

'Verdant' seems a strange word to use for a jute factory in the middle of a city, but in 1833, when the jute mill was just starting up, there was an abundance of greenery and nature surrounding the mill.

The ready availability of water (the Scouring Burn) made it a perfect location for a mill. In 1864 the Works ran three steam engines driving 70 power looms and 2,800 spindles. 500 people were employed, making Verdant the 16th biggest employer in the Dundee jute industry of the time.

Working conditions in mills across Scotland were unimaginable in this day and age. Long hours amongst dangerous machines with little to no health and safety precautions were endured by thousands of people, working for minimum wage and living in poverty and battling ‘mill fever’, which often lead to respiratory diseases like bronchitis. Women outnumbered men three to one in the mills, earning our city of Discovery the nickname of ‘she town’.

Unfortunately Verdant Works ceased production and later fell off the register of mills in Dundee in 1889, but then, during the 1900s, under ownership of Alexander Thomson & Sons, Verdant Works was used as a site for recycling jute waste built up as a result of the city’s thriving factories; to cure rabbit skins; and to deal in scrap metal.

Dundee Heritage Trust purchased (the then derelict) Verdant Works in 1991 and began a sympathetic refurbishment of this courtyard type mill, and in 1996, Verdant Works was officially opened to the public as Scotland’s jute museum.

In the third PiP is a volunteer, who worked at the mill in the mid 20th century. She is is chage of the weaving machine, and when she switched it on it was deafening. Hard to imagine the noise that would have been made with all the machinery in this large room once upon a time.

The Tay Bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:36:52 +0000

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Magdalen Green bandstand

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:06:22 +0000

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'Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay!
The longest of the present day
That has ever crossed o’er a tidal river stream,
Most gigantic to be seen,
Near by Dundee and the Magdalen Green.'

A verse of the poem,The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall , Scotland's worst poet maybe. The poem is etched along the espalnade between Dundee 'Discovery Point' and the rail bridge.

The Tay Bridge Centenary was in June 1987. I should perhaps first point out that this was the anniversary of the opening of the second Tay Bridge, which still survives today and not its predecessor, which dramatically collapsed some eight years earlier.

Dancing Water

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:24:54 +0000

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RRS Discovery

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:13:22 +0000

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For a few days we will be without a working computer. Enjoy yourselves this week, and I'll visit as soon as I can.

Abstraction

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:43:21 +0000

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SC161 - 24 August - Abstraction

Discovery Point staircase

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:47:29 +0000

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HBM from Dundee

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:48:01 +0000

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It seems that everyone had left this area to sort out something to eat for an evening meal. We passed this long bench 2 days later at about 3p.m. and it was packed on both sides with sunbathers. The weather in Scotland was unseasonably hot last week.

The Telford Beacon

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:32:44 +0000

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Despite its name, the Telford Beacon was designed by James Leslie, a consultant to the famous engineer Thomas Telford. It once sat on the wharf between the tidal harbour and King William IV dock to help guide ships into the dock.

When the docks were filled in to make way for the Tay Road Bridge,opened in 1966, the beacon was left standing 135metres from the new shoreline.

In 2011 the beacon was in danger of being lost when the bridge ramps were rebuilt to make way for the redevelopment of the area. Dundee City Council took the decision to relocate the beacon to this new location on Black Watch Parade.

Dundee Waterfront - Moving the Telford Beacon

HFF

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:07:52 +0000

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The River Tay Road Bridge Commemorative Obelisk.

The Tay Road Bridge was built to replace the former Tay ferry service, popularly known in Dundee as "the Fifie". A passenger and vehicle ferry service across the River Tay operated from Craigie Pier, Dundee, to Newport-on-Tay. The bridge was opened formally on 18 August 1966, by the Queen Mother, and the bridge authorities organised a day of free events on Sunday 21 August 2016 to celebrate the occasion.

Originally the bridge was originally a bidirectional toll road with the original 1966 toll for motorcycles, cars and goods vehicles of 1/-, 2/6 and 10/-, respectively. On 31 May 2007, the Scottish Parliament voted to scrap tolls on all bridges in Scotland.

I often used to cross the River Tay using the ferry from Newport Fife to Dundee, and remember cart horses pulling trailers piled up with jute on the quayside in the 40s and early 50s. It's all different now. One of the ferries was a paddle steamer. I remember my dad taking me to look at the large pistons which worked the engine on one of the ferries, possibly the paddle steamer.

Behind the obelisk is Dundee's V&A museum, and it's possible to see the rail bridge in the far distance.

North Carr Lightship

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:25:24 +0000

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The North Carr is believed to be the last remaining Scottish lightship. In 1975 the lightvessel was replaced by an east cardinal buoy and decommissioned. After decommissioning, the vessel served as a floating museum in Anstruther then relocated to Victoria Dock under the ownership of the Taymara (Tay Maritime Action) charity. . It looked rather fine in Anstruther, but unfortunately Taymara were unable to raise sufficient funds for its restoration and the vessel is now destined to be dismantled and scrapped. Such a pity.

Dundee has spent a lot of money on the riverside improvements, and I do feel that some of the money spent should have been used to preserve this lightship.

More details here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carr_Lightship

HFF Staircase to the Tay Road Bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:34:26 +0000

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View from the road bridge

Interactive sound installation on the Riverside Esplanade

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:30:33 +0000

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HBM from Broughty Ferry

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:18:41 +0000

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From here one gets a view of the Tay Road Bridge in the distance. When I was a child living in Fife in the 1940s and early 50s, and requiring dental treatment in Dundee at the Dental Hospital, I had to catch a bus from St.Andrews to Newport Fife, then take the ferry over the river. I then walked to the Dental Hospital, all by myself from the age of eight years old. One would never allow this in this day and age.

The Tay Ferries, known locally as the "Fifies" they were the main means of crossing the Tay with a vehicle until the opening of the Tay Road Bridge.

The first regular scheduled steam powered ferry was the "Union" which started service in 1821 and ran six days a week with up to 11 crossings per day. Only a short while later in 1839 pleasure trips over the river became available and were an affordable day out for many Dundonians working in the City industries.

The ferries could typically take around 10 vehicles at a time. Today the Tay Road Bridge is crossed by 26,000 vehicles per day.

The same day as the Tay Road Bridge was opened on August 18th 1966, the Ferry "Scotscraig" made it's final crossing.

HFF from Broughty Ferry

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:15:19 +0000

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HWW from the Dundee Penguins.

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:07:15 +0000

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Sculpted by Angela Hunter these five penguins, located on the wall of the Steeple Church, have become a firm favourite with the Dundee public and are Dundee’s answer to Glasgow’s Duke of Wellington statue. I hardly think that this is a fair comparison. ;-)

The penguins are regularly dressed to join in city occasions from graduation to charity fundraising events and from Christmas celebrations to Royal visits.

Dundee has actually been associated with penguins for a long time – hence the group of them getting some exercise in the city centre.

www.facebook.com/DundeePenguins

You’ll perhaps know a bit about the RRS Discovery, the beautiful ship now located at Dundee’s waterfront. Its first ever mission was to the British National Antarctica – which just happens to be, the home of the penguin.

Storm in Dundee

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:11:00 +0000

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www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=150043477328800

Slowly growing the forest with a 171 trees donated .
Thank you for all you support for STORM
"Vision Mechanics created the STORM grove to mark the amazing journey of a 10m Sea Goddess who walked across Scotland. Thousands of families came to see her, many more watched her journey online. Every tree planted holds a promise to tackle climate change and re-wild Scotland. Join this project to plant trees and watch them grow into a beautiful forest. Let's grow a future for our children ."

Storm in Dundee 2

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:14:15 +0000

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Underneath The River Tay Road Bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:32:21 +0000

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The Tay Road Bridge crosses the Firth of Tay, linking Newport in NE Fife with the City of Dundee. At 2250m (1.4 miles) in length, this was the longest road bridge in the UK when it was opened on 18th August 1966 by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002). It carries the A92 Trunk Road into the heart of Dundee, replacing a ferry service affectionately known as the Fifies. The bridge consists of 42 spans with a navigation channel located closer to the Fife side. During the construction of the bridge, 140,000 tons of concrete, 4,600 tons of mild steel and 8,150 tons of structural steel was used. The bridge has a gradient of 1:81 running from 9.75 m (32.0 ft) above sea-level in Dundee to 38.1 m (125.0 ft) above sea-level in Fife.

The bridge took 3½ years to build at a cost of approximately £6 million.

When I was a child living in St.Andrews (Fife) in the 1940s and early 50s, we used to travel by bus to Newport and then cross on the ferry into Dundee, either to visit relatives or to attend the dental hospital there. The biggest excitement was when the paddle steamer was working and my Dad used to take me into the engine room to watch the massive pistons working the ferry. Three vessels operated the service, namely the B. L. Nairn (a paddle steamer built in 1929); the Abercraig and the Scotscraig (diesel powered, fitted with Voith Schneider propellers and built in the Caledon Shipyard in Dundee). The paddle steamer was only used when the other ferries needed maintenance.

www.britishpathe.com/video/tay-bridge-has-royal-opening

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Road_Bridge

When the road bridge was opened the paddle steamer was scrapped while the Scotscraig and Abercraig ended their days in Malta.

The road bridge is convenient but the magic is lost.

These days we still visit Dundee as one of my granddaughters is now working as a dentist there, having studied at the aforementioned Dental hospital.

The Auld Tram

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 07:42:09 +0000

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Dundee 2 was constructed by the Milnes Company in Birkenhead during the late 19th century and after ending its service days when the Dundee tram system was electrified the body was sold on for re-use. The car was later rescued but sustained severe fire damage to the top deck whilst in storage; however the remaining portion of the lower saloon was eventually cosmetically restored by members of the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society and was later transported back home to Dundee.

The tram was then moved to Nottingham where it was modified to suit its new role as a street cafe at a cost of around £45,000. The original tram seating was re-used to create a suitable work area and the end platforms and dash panels were also recreated, whilst wooden boarding was added to disguise the roof line. I remember distinctly the green and cream colour of the Dundee transport system, (now all the buses are different colours), but I wouldn't have ridden on this tram because the City Corporation then replaced the steam and horse trams with electric traction between 1900 and 1902, and I'm not that old. ;-)

We were in this district to meet up with my granddaughters who are both at Dundee University. (See PiP)