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Douglas Street, DUNDEE, DD1 5DA

The view is taken in the south east corner of the box looking north along the ring road.

The view is taken from the south east corner of the box and looks north along a stretch of Dundee's inner ring road.

An 1874, 5 storey fireproof mill by Urquhart Lindsay, Blackness Foundry. Former jute mill. Now WASPS artists studios on top three floors.

Dundee City councils Kennels in Brown street.

Dated 1909 in the inscription on the front. The building sits on the corner of Douglas street and Brown street. The marked officers entrance was in Brown street (the shaded side in this picture).

Verdant Works is a former flax and jute spinning mill that is now a museum of the jute industry. This rather impressive cast iron flywheel is displayed in the main mill block. It c1840s/1850s and from the original steam engine used to power Park Mill, Douglas Street, Dundee. When the engine was replaced in 1921 this wheel was considered too heavy to move easily and was buried under the mill's courtyard. It was recovered by contractors during work in 2014 and brought to Verdant works for display. The smaller inner wheel is grooved for ropes to drive two floors of the mill. This is almost certainly a later addition to supplement an original gear drive (at that vintage the original drive would be by gears). Above and to the right of the wheel is a bearing box in the wall that would have been part of Verdant works original steam powered drive system.

A museum of the jute industry and home to a preserved Boulton & Watt beam engine. The mill is a flax and jute spinning mill of 1833. The floors are wooden and supported by cast iron columns. The gothic mansard cast-iron roof dates from 1852. There is a truncated chimney on the left.

Dundee's jute museum is housed in Verdant works and in 2015 a new gallery was opened that contains this magnificent Boulton & Watt beam engine that incorporates the separate condenser, parallel motion, sun and planet gear and centrifugal governor (Watt merely borrowed the governor from mill wrighting circles where it was used in corn mills for adjusting the gap between the stones). The engine was installed at William Sandeman's Douglasfield Bleachworks in Dundee, It was ordered in 1801 and installed in 1802 at a cost of £517. The engine is believed to have worked for most of the century and was purchased and gifted to Dundee's Free Library Committee in 1898. It was displayed in a new museum at Dudhope Barracks from 1900 to 1939 when WWII intervened. The museum never reopened and the engine was dismantled in 1960s for display in Edinburgh but this too never happened and the engine returned to Dundee in 1975 and remained in store until 2012 when work started on a plan to conserve and display it at Verdant Works. This is a very late example of the type as at about the same time all iron engines with conventional cranks were starting to be built. This is the only surviving Boulton & Watt engine to have worked in Scotland and to be displayed close to where it originally worked.

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.

Verdant works is a former flax and jute spinning mill that is now a museum of the jute industry. This little display on a floored part of the first floor shows the material (jute) in its raw state, intermediate stages (in the cans) and a finished product as twine on the trolley.