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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...