Oblique aerial view of the W part of Dundee waterfront, the city centre and Dundee Law, backed by the Sidlaw Hills, looking NW.

Description Oblique aerial view of the W part of Dundee waterfront, the city centre and Dundee Law, backed by the Sidlaw Hills, looking NW.

Date 18/6/2008

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number DP 341479

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This view from above the Firth of Tay shows the N end of the Tay Road Bridge, with the since-demolished Tayside House office block prominent near the bridge landfall. In the firth is the submarine-like Beacon Rock and its twin, the Fowler Rock. The two ships in the foreground are berthed at King George V Wharf, one of two wharves where bales of jute from the Indian sub-continent were unloaded well into the second half of the 20th-C. One of the cranes on the wharf is visible to the left of the ships. Beyond is Camperdown Dock, which was already moribund in the 1960s. Historic building details in the city centre are indistinct. To the right of the centre of the image are the 4 "slab blocks" of the 1960s Dallfield multi-storey housing development in the Hilltown. Dundee Law (aka Law Hill) occupies the right-hand side of the photo, with its iron age fort, medieval fortification and dominant War Memorial (1923) whose construction destroyed part of the iron age site. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D0981

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