By ADMINISTRATOR
Dundee
Nursing Homes near Dundee
Scotland
Approximate Population: 154,674
He may not have touched a cow pie since 2005, but Desperate Dan is still Dundee’s most colourful resident – and it has had a few. Scotland’s fourth-largest city is quite extraordinary; its fame fashioned from jute, jam and journalism.
Scotland’s City Of Discovery has a remarkable story. Dundee sits on the north bank of the River Tay, close to Scotland’s north-east coast. Its long and elastic history stretches all the way back to the Iron Age, when the city was the preserve of the Picts. In the 16th century, the city’s strategic position on the estuarine Tay saw it enter a bloody period in its history, as it became embroiled in the many battles between Scotland and England that arose out of the dissolution of the Treaty Of Greenwich. Dundee was built from sterner stuff than Anglo-Scottish relations of that time and the city survived.
And it was during the overtime of the Industrial Revolution that 19th century Dundee’s fortunes would bloom, interwoven with its buoyant textiles industry; jute, to be exact. Dundee was a major producer of textiles, principally linen, but by the 1830s, jute was the city’s principal industry. The boom in jute production saw, at its height in 1861, almost 50,000 people employed in the mills and hand looms of the city and its suburbs. Dundee became ‘Juteopolis’. But, as with Scotland’s textile industry as a whole, decline was inevitable, and competition from Indian firms in the 1920s closed Dundee’s jute mills.
