Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 967399

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/967399

Built in 1874 and designed in the Scots Baronial style to fit into an improvement Act street by engineers Robertson & Orchar, the tall ground

floor was for press packing and dispatching. The calenders and mangles extended from the first floor into the hillside behind.

The second floor was fitted out by merchants A & S Henry as the counting

house for a business that included several mills in India. Acquired for use as the Industrial Museum for Dundee, a change of mind led to the evacuation of most of the museum items, and its conversion to housing, during which a fire necessitated careful restoration of the upper part of the building. Forebank Dyeworks (Francis Stevenson, from 1895 Wm Watson’s, 88 Victoria Road, NO43SW 164), two blocks to the east, also forms part of the Improvement Act Street. The 4-storey front building was converted

to housing in 1985.

M Watson, 2013