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Guthrie Street, DUNDEE, DD1 5BR

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

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,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Kettle boiler was a derogatory term used for men who stayed at home looked after the children and make the meals while their wives went to work in the Dundee jute mills. From mid 1850s to mid 1950s Dundee had high male unemployment and women were more sought after to do the work in the mills so many men took over the childcare. I find this depiction at the Verdant Works museum quite moving and sensed how difficult and humiliating it must have been for these men.

A Heritage Centre concentrating on Dundee's industrial past,in particular the jute industry.

This is in original condition. Verdant Works was built in 1833 as a flax and jute spinning mill and is now a museum of the history of jute in Dundee. It is an excellent combination of social history and genuine artefacts from the trade with machinery representing each stage of the process and a preserved Boulton & Watt beam engine.