December 2022 – Dundee Civic Trust

City Scene 2022

Posted on 26th December 2022 | by Neale Elder

2022 issue (still in stock)

Contents

Comment – from the Chairman
Student Awards 2022
Emergence and transition: 50 years of innovation at Dundee’s Botanic Garden
“Two bagfuls of monkeys” – the history of the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
Build it and they will come – the case for cycling in Dundee
The Early History of Camperdown Park
Exploring the Scouring Burn – an early workers’ community
Dundee Naturalists’ Society
Dundee City’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Journey: Past Projects and Future Plans
Dundee’s Natural History Collections and Museum
Winter Evening Talk Summary (2021-22) – a review of our series of events

16 February 2023: Caishlan Sweeney, “Meanwhile at Eden Project, Dundee”

Posted on 26th December 2022 | by Neale Elder

16 February 2023: Caishlan Sweeney, “Meanwhile at Eden Project, Dundee”

This will be our annual joint meeting with the Friends of Dundee Heritage Trust. It is the DHT turn to host, so the talk will take place at Discovery Point at the usual time of 7 pm, when Caishlan Sweeney will update us on progress with the Eden Project at Dundee.

19 January 2023: Iain Flett, “Garden to Eden”

Posted on 25th December 2022 | by Neale Elder

19 January 2023: Iain Flett, “Garden to Eden”

Former city archivist Iain Flett, speaking on a wide range of subjects, is a great favourite of Trust members. His January talk will look at how Dundee was one of the first Scottish burghs to embrace lighting by coal gas to improve the safety of its inhabitants by night. Initially supplied with coal by river and later by rail, production at the gas works ceased when piped natural gas took over; but gas storage would continue. Indeed, the gas storage tank would be memorably repainted as a giant birthday cake to mark the city’s octocentenary in 1991. The site, along with its gasholder, will now be the site of an Eden Project.