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The V&A Dundee, opened on 15 September 2018, with a glimpse on the right of RRS Discovery, built in Dundee in 1900/1 and on which Scott and Shackleton amongst others sailed to Antarctica.
Amazing design.
V&A Dundee is a design museum in Dundee, Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018.[3] The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London. The V&A Dundee is also the first building in the United Kingdom designed by Kengo Kuma, whose vision was for a 'living room for the city'.
Dundee waterfront at just coming up to seven o'clock on the clear morning of 2 October 2019.
RRS (Royal Research Ship) Discovery as preserved in Dundee, the city in which it was built in 1900/1901, and to which it returned in 1986, installed in this dock in 1992. For further information about the importance of this vessel, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Discovery
Behind the ship is the V&A Dundee, the first major Design Museum in the UK outside London, and opened on 15 September 2018. Both it and the Discovery are part of the Waterfront regeneration programme.
V&A Dundee is a design museum in Dundee, Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London. Quoted from Wikipedia.
Photos around Dundee. A former lightshp awaits restoration in Dundee Harbour.
This is the North Carr Lightship, built in Glasgow in 1933 and serving in Scottish waters until decomissioned in 1975. After some years berthed in Anstruther Harbour in Fife, the vessel was moved here in 2002.
For further information, see lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk/directory/north-carr-lights...
While a large part of Dundee Railway Station has been upgraded and modernised in recent years, my eye was more drawn to these structure above the southbound tracks, crossing through from the street above to the main building, like covered bridges. I wonder if these were original entrances and exits for the station, years back? These days a much wider entrance at the front, with escalators etc takes passengers in and out, but I loved the look of these old, covered bridges, a nice little architectural feature.
Taken on a recent trip to Dundee, Scotland
V&A Dundee is a design museum in Dundee, Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London.
On the right is RRS (Royal Research Ship) Discovery as preserved in Dundee, the city in which it was built in 1900/1901, and to which it returned in 1986, installed in this dock in 1992. For further information about the importance of this vessel, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Discovery
Left is the V&A Dundee, the first major Design Museum in the UK outside London, and opened on 15 September 2018. Both it and the Discovery are part of the Waterfront regeneration programme.
The piper was pretty good too.
trip101.com/article/great-spots-to-visit-dundee-and-angus...
Although Dundee had become a burgh in the 12th century, the 15th century Steeple Tower seen here is the oldest structure to survive the 'Rough Wooing', when English forces attacked Scottish towns and cities to stop them becoming an independent force that might ally with the French.
From Places of Worship in Scotland (POWiS):
The Mary Slessor Centre is one of four churches/former churches within the building known as the City Churches (10888). The earliest church on this site was known as St. Mary’s Church (1082) and dates from the late 12th Century. It was largely destroyed in 1548 by English attack. The site now occupied by the Mary Slessor Centre was originally the transepts of the early 12th Century church. The area was rebuilt and housed the Cross Church (10694), which split in 1582 and became the Cross Church and the South Church. The two transepts did not come together again until the mid-19th Century.
The Cross Church (in the north transept) was partly destroyed by fire in 1645 and then used by Monck’s troops six years later. In 1745 it was used by Jacobean troops. It was again destroyed by fire in 1841. In 1846/7 the transepts were rebuilt by Burn & Bryce to house St. Paul’s (South). St. David’s Church (10722) joined the congregation in 1947 becoming Old St. Paul’s and St. David’s. This Church was then joined by the Wishart Memorial (6124) in 1975. Three years later the congregation joined with The Steeple Church (1085) and from 1981 the transepts have been used by the Mary Slessor Centre.
The Howff is a burial ground in the city of Dundee, Scotland. Established in 1564, it has one of the most important collections of tombstones in Scotland, and is protected as a category A listed building.
The majority of graves face exactly due east.
Coffer tombs, The Howff, Dundee
The land of the burial ground was part of the Franciscan (Greyfriars) Monastery until the Scottish Reformation. In 1564 Mary, Queen of Scots granted the land to the burgh of Dundee, for use as a burial ground. It was used for meetings by the Dundee Incorporated Trades, and subsequently became known as The Howff, from the Scots word howff 'an enclosed open space, yard, area (as a timber yard)', likely related to German or Dutch hof 'enclosed space, courtyard'. Old parish records for burials within The Howff begin in the late 18th century. Prior to this records of mortcloth hire, a cloth rented out by the Guildry and Trades to cover bodies or coffins before burial, provide evidence of burials dating back to 1655. Meetings at The Howff ceased in 1776.[1] The last burial took place in 1878 (George Duncan). The walls along the west side date from 1601.
The vault to the extreme south west (now simply saying "Blackness" inside) was the burial Vault of the Wedderburns of Blackness House in Dundee. A sealed window on its exterior appears to indicate this was either a watch-house or part of the original meeting-house prior to the vault being built (c.1630).
The graveyard is highly unusual by Scottish standards, containing a high number of Roman-style coffer tombs. It also contains a high number of inscriptions which philosophise on death itself rather than discussing the person interred.
Of the 80,000 burials in the Howff around 3% are classed as "foreign" but with many simply bearing this label due to birth at sea, reflecting Dundee's maritime heritage. As an odder distinction, some 10% of the deaths are specifically recorded as "Irish burials", largely labourers in the early 19th century.
An Edinburgh bound train crosses the Tay Bridge on 11 April 2019 and is just approaching the 'High Girders', where headroom was provided for the tallest ships when the bridge was completed in 1887, being officially opened on 20 June that year. The bridge is over two miles long.
However, this was not the first bridge to be completed here, the first having been opened on 1 June 1878, although that collapsed in spectacular fashion on 28 December the following year during a storm. There were significant deficiencies in the building of the bridge, together with some substandard materials, but the bulk of the blame was laid at the door of its designer, Thomas Bouch, who did not take sufficient account of the effects of winds being funnelled up the firth. As can be seen in this picture, the stumps of the old bridge piers are still there, clearly visible at low tide.
Major work was undertaken in 2003 to strengthen the bridge, the difficulty of the work being recognised by an engineering award.
My train to Edinburgh arrives at Dundee from Aberdeen. This is one of a number of former InterCity 125 sets that were mainly used on main lines radiating from London and which have been transferred to Scotland.
Branded as Inter7City services, they link the seven cities of Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh. An eighth Scottish city was created when Dunfermline was awarded the status in 2022, but none of these trains are routed through there. Power car no.43164 leads.
This station used to carry the suffix 'Tay Bridge' to distinguish it from Dundee East (closed 5.1.1959) and Dundee West (closed 3.5.1965). It is unusual in being below high tide level in the nearby Firth of Tay. A rebuild of the station entrance area was completed in 2018.