View from S-S-E of main frontage.

Description View from S-S-E of main frontage.

Date 3/1986

Catalogue Number SC 757610

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 38505

Scope and Content Main entrance front of the Tay Works, No 2 Lochee Road, Dundee, from south-south-east This is the main frontage of the Tay Works. Dating to 1863-5, the building to the right incorporates the entrance to the works. Built in a Classical style and four storeys high, including an attic floor, the building, known as the south block, was constructed beside another mill, the north block, which was 35 bays wide and five storeys high. Again built in a Classical style, the north block dates to 1862-4. The spinning and manufacture of jute became one of the main industries in Dundee in the 19th century. 'Juteopolis', as Dundee became known, was the centre of the jute trade in Britain, and for many decades was the world leader in jute production, until it was overtaken by India, where production costs became much cheaper than in Dundee. The Tay Works in Lochee Road, Dundee, began as a business in 1849 when the Gilroy Brothers bought several mills from a bankrupt flax spinner. The works was extended further with the building of other mills and factories between 1851 and 1881. By 1877 Gilroy Sons & Co was the second biggest jute manufacturer in the world. By the 1970s the jute industry had declined, and in 1986 much of the Tay Works was converted into student residences. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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