Dundee’s hecklers – a type of jute worker – gained such a reputation as highly vocal political radicals that the term came to mean interrupting public speakers In the National Museum of ...

The Open Gallery at High Mill has been recognised with a ... who consider it the home of the jute industry in Scotland. Dundee Heritage Trust also runs the historic RRS Discovery ship and visitor ...

ISLA: The GPS says Verdant Works, an old textile mill, is just under a mile North West. Found it! Dundee is known for jute, jam and journalism and this is the jute part. Jute is a textile made ...

plus money-saving tips with our free twice-daily newsletter Sign up At the height of the industry's success there were 62 jute mills in Dundee, and some 50,000 jute workers. All this made a lot of ...

UNESCO granted Dundee a ‘City of Design’ status in 2014 (the only one in the United Kingdom!) and since then, this industrial ...

There has been, again understandably, talk of jute. And, where necessary, of the rest of the trio; jam and journalism. First look inside V&A Dundee Museum of Design The city with grand designs ...

The urban vista features an endless, sooty parade of factory lums, serving Dundee’s jute mills. Quite fairly, the commentary draws attention to the deleterious impact upon the environment.

Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee. The city is the big constant of his life. He grew up amid the clatter of the jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The jute ...