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That is the name on the door of what looks to be a former Church, will check.

This is one of Dundee city centre's numerous listed buildings. It is currently a pub, but in the 1870s - and presumably for a while after that too, since Historic Scotland say that this was when the company paid for alterations to the 1815 building - it served as the office of a jute manufacturer. You don't have to read a great deal about Dundee before jute is mentioned. Jute is a coarse fibre, and is pretty much just a more refined version of hessian - both derive from the same plant. The plant comes from the East of India, a region with which Dundee did a great deal of trade back in the days of empire. There is what is described as probably being an urban myth mentioned on a couple of websites as the reason that for decades this city produced almost all of the world's jute. The story goes that the cloth manufacturers of the day couldn't figure out a profitable way to make fabric from the fibres due to them being so coarse. However, Dundee was heavily involved in the whaling industry at the time and at some point somebody spilt some whale oil onto the jute, which had the effect of softening it into a workable condition. Even when jute manufacturing began in India forty or so years after things took off here, Dundonian expertise was often required to streamline processes and maximize profits, so there was a steady flow of workers making the voyage across to India. At one point almost half the city's workforce was involved in the jute industry in some way. Women, who were always paid less than men for doing the same job back in the bad old days, were used in high numbers to keep costs down and apparently their unemployed husband's were often disparagingly called 'kettle boilers'!

Completed in 1772 by Architect, Samuel Bell. This grand, yet simple rectangular church has fine stone dressings, twin Venetian and semi-circular windows. With a splendid west tower, the steeple recesses at each higher level creating an extremely elegant profile.

Restaurant and ballroom, part of the now dark King's Theatre. Some of the ground floor of the complex is in use as shops but much of the building is vacant.

The entrance to the Wellgate Centre at the top of Murraygate.

The Continental was a popular meeting for the young people in Dundee and many lifelong matches were made there. The building has quite a bit of history and further reading can be found here: http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Dundee/KingsTheatreDundee.htm

A typical shopping day at the Wellgate Centre

This clock is in the Wellgate Centre , which opened in 1978.It chimes and put on a display every hour.

Category B. Listing reference LB25117. James Sibbald, dated 1910. 5-storey and attic, 6-bay commercial building on splayed corner site with shopfronts to ground floor. Red ashlar, brick to sides and rear, grey slate roof. Cill band to 1st floor, cill course to 2nd and 3rd floors, corbelled main cornice to 3rd floor, corniced and coped parapet; channelled pilasters flanking angle bay rising to dormer with mannered parapet, masking square dome with aediculaed lantern; single, paired and canted windows with 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, corniced to 1st floor, continuous cornice with 3 pediments to 2nd floor, 2 single dormers with segmental pediments, 2 tripartite dormers with triangular pediments. Corniced gable stacks.