Fiona Whitty took a trip to Dundee, the fourth largest city in Scotland which was once known for its jute, jam and journalism ...

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.

The museum stands in for the more than 100 jute mills that once operated in Dundee and employed, by the late 1800s, 40,000 of the city’s 170,000 residents. It’s a fiber made from the middle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dundee's largest surviving jute baron's mansion is to be redeveloped into new homes in a £6m project. Building work on Clement Park House, which belonged to famous mill owner James Cox, started in ...

Dundee councillors have called for the local authority to secure the site of a major fire that ravaged a derelict city jute mill earlier this week. The crumbling two-storey Queen Victoria Works ...

TOMAH, WISCONSIN, USA, June 24, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Embark on a journey back to the bustling Dundee Jute Mills of 1865 with "The Anstruther Lass," a ...