worth up to #2.5m, it was announced yesterday. The Sidlaw Group plc has sold its jute, flax and trading business to J & F Spinners Ltd, a newly-formed consortium. Mills involved in the deal are ...

But now Dundee's V&A museum is to turn the spotlight ... has unveiled new work commissioned to honour those who worked in the jute mills of the region, now divided between India and Bangladesh.

His company, John Sharp and Sons, operated three mills, employing over 1,200 workers at the height of the industry in Dundee. The wealthy jute magnate - known as “Honest John” - was a noted ...

Obviously you need to, I don't want to be stuck on this benefit." In this recession, Catherine is not alone in Dundee. The jute mills are long closed and one in five people are on benefits. Dundee is ...

There was plenty of whale oil here and the city grew to become the biggest jute making city in the world. These old textile mills were Dundee's biggest employer. This is another kind of secondary ...

"The whole visit threw up a complex mix of emotions for me. "My ancestors came from Fermanagh to Dundee to work in the jute mills. So many people in the mills were Scottish crofters or Irish ...

For more than a century, it played a pivotal role in Dundee’s industrial life ... where machinery for the jute mills was assembled. At the turn of the century it was converted over ...

But it’s not all about the new – Dundee is repurposing its past, too. Said to have been built on “jam (marmalade), jute (mills) and journalism (newspapers and comics)”, the wealth ...

In October 2018, one of Scotland’s leading newspapers, the Courier, published a story which started with the following sentences: “The jute ship Banglar Urmi docked at Dundee 20 years ago and ...

John Lowden Macartney had been born with the surname McArthy in 1863 and worked in the jute mills. He subsequently became a journalist for the Dundee Advertiser and The Weekly News. He took over the ...