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 ...

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 ...

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 ...