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Walton Street, DUNDEE, DD1 5BL

Verdant Works is a museum that has a set of machinery that was used in Dundee Technical College to train mill workers and mechanics in the skills of processing jute and the workings of the machinery.

Verdant Works is an industrial museum which is a working jute mill. See http://www.rrsdiscovery.com/index.php?pageID=130 on the website of another nearby visitor attraction, RRS Discovery.

Showing position of Postbox No. DD1 17. See Image] for postbox.

The building on the left now houses the Downfield musical society. Although it looks like a former church it is referred to as the Old Hydro club. There used to be a public bath and washhouse on Guthrie street,

At this point I ran out of time to explore further and had to dive into Verdant Works to achieve my main objective of the day - an 1801 Boulton & Watt beam engine. So I had to content myself with this tantalising shot that I have just spent a good 15 minutes locating accurately. The multistorey block in the left background is part of Logie Works built 1828-33 and was converted to housing in the 1990s. It sounds fascinating with a coffin shaped courtyard and two beam engine houses. The decaying mill buildings in the right background are part of Queen Victoria Works that were still spinning jute until 1995. The aerial view shows severe deterioration. Dundee has a mass of industrial archaeology that I barely scratched the surface of. It would take a good week to do the place justice.

Postbox No. DD1 17. See Image] for context.

These premises formed part of the former Victoria Spinning Company's works.

Seen from the rear on West Henderson's Wynd. A former jute mill of c1850 with a multi-storey block on Anchor Lane, an engine house (left of centre, one bay wide by two storeys) and a weaving shed (part is seen on the left, single storey). Further along West Henderson's Wynd on the left is Meadow Mill. Verdant Works museum is on the right opposite Anchor lane.

Verdant Mill got its name because when it was built it was in green fields. Now 170 years on it is surrounded by other converted mills and warehouses. In 1991 it was made into a museum showing how Jute was processed and its many uses.

The works is now a museum of the jute industry. The office furnishings are as left by the previous occupiers when the site was acquired by the Dundee Heritage trust in 1991. The gate lodge is also in as found condition.