Category: City Scene Journal

2025 issue (in stock)

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Contents

• From the Chairman
• Winter talk summary 2024-2025
• The Cemeteries of Dundee – Part 1
• The Castles of Dundee
• Dundee’s Community Growing Network
• Look up Dundee – what to see by turning your eyes upwards
• The story of the West Station
• Thomas Justice and Sons – at the forefront of Art Deco
• James Guthrie Orchar – the man and his collection
• Robertson & Orchar – Engineers, Machine Makers and Mill Designers 1856-1919
• Park and Cemetery Lodges – survivors and casualties
• Dykes and their Like – in praise of the humble drystane dyke
• Dundee and Angus College – a civic vision for the future
• The Dundee Civic Trust Awards and the Dundee Civic Trust/Dundee Historic Environment Trust Conservation Awards for 2025

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2024 issue (in stock)

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Contents

• From the Chairman
• Dundee Civic Trust Student Award 2024
• Stobswell: a lively village of industry in Dundee
• The Big Back Garden at Baxter Park
• 250 years of Dundee’s Trades Kirk
• The Wellgate Project: finding stories of a street
• Celebrate our Cassies…they’re not cobbles!
• The Dundee cricket grounds 1830-1880
• ‘Be Fruitfull and Multiply’: cryptic clues on a Dundee penny
• Along the Dens Burn
• Housing standards: yesterday, today and tomorrow
• Redundant churches: new uses or demolition?
• Dundee Civic Trust Events 2023-2024

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Contents

• From the Chairman
• Dundee Civic Trust Awards 1976-2019
• Dundee’s South Asian Heritage
• Michelin Dundee: the Road and the Miles
• Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc – Scotland’s home for Sustainable Mobility
• Dundee Sailors’ Home
• Ireland and MacLaren Architects 1873-1885
• The Sailors’ Home mariners: who were these men?
• Abertay cyberQuarter
• Dundee Regional Performance Centre – what is it for and who uses it?
• James Hutton – researching the future in plant growth
• Dundee – Sources for Local, Business and Family History
• Dundee Civic Trust Student Awards 2023
• Dundee Civic Trust and Dundee Historic Environment Trust Awards for 2019-2023
• Dundee Civic Trust 50th Anniversary Awards
• Dundee Civic Trust events 2022-2023 (50th anniversary season)

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2022 issue

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

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Contents

• Comment – from the Chairman
• COVID – a Year in Pictures
• Dundee: Vision for 2040 – the Trust’s aspirations for the City
• The 20-Minute Neighbourhood – the possible merits of this sustainable policy
• Dundee Port – Adapting to the Future
• The Case for Wider Boundaries – a view on expansion of the City’s administrative area
• The Pioneering History of Public Art in Dundee
• The East Mill – Scotland’s first successful steam powered flax mill
• Civic Trust Student Awards – the Trust’s first student awards, in 2020 and 2021
• DC Thomson Buildings – the impressive built estate of the City’s main publisher
• Dundee’s Cold War – Royal Observer Corps
• Dundee’s Cold War – The Maps
• Dundee’s Cold War – Royal Naval Reserve

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Theme – Dundee: City by Design

Contents

• Water is Life – the history of Dundee’s water supply
• The High Street – the beating heart of the City
• Dundee Takes the Cake – a gasometer becomes a birthday cake for the 1991 Octocentenary
• The Kingsway – the revolutionary bypass of the 1920s
• Pioneers of Civil Aviation in Dundee
• Dundee’s Drainage Infrastructure
• Hacklemaking Power from the Ships – industrial problem-solving during the 1973-74 energy crisis
• The Better Side of Bouch – the innovative Broughty/Tayport train ferries
• Alexander Imlay and Son – the Fairmuir Cabinet Works
• City Squares – photo feature
• Dundee Civic Trust Awards 2019

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Theme – Dundee: City of Design

Contents

• The Old Lady – a history of the Old Steeple
• Councillors & Criminals, Commerce & Community – The Pillars, Dundee’s favourite building
• HMS Discovery, RRS Discovery and HMS Unicorn
• Room for Improvement – the Improvement Acts of the 19^th century
• Done by Design – the tale of James Thomson’s ‘specimen house’
• A Heart to the City Gained – Thomson’s plans for the Waterfront
• Dundee’s Pioneering Housing Scheme – the story of Logie
• Dundee Repertory Theatre
• The Whitetop Centre
• The Rise and Fall of Whitfield’s Skarne Blocks
• The V&A Design Museum

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Theme – Dundee: A City at Play

Contents

• Leisure and Culture in Dundee
• Playing the Beautiful Game – a short piece about the two senior football clubs
• Dundee on Ice – the story of ice sports in the city
• The Festival of Britain in Dundee
• The Highland Shows at Dundee – 1843 to 1957
• Fort William and the Royal Tay Yacht Club
• Treading the Boards – an account of ‘am dram’ in the city
• Stars in their Eyes – cinemas in Dundee
• Dancers, Chancers and Romancers
• Saints and Sinners (and all things in between) – theatre in the city
• Going Swimmingly
• Dundee Civic Trust Awards 2017

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Theme – Dundee: 1945-1975

Contents

• The Way We Were 1945
• The Best Laid Schemes – post-war housing changes
• …in a Nutshell – the story of a remarkable miniature caravan
• Planning the Future – the formation of a new planning system
• Planning: My Part in its Downfall – one amusing personal account
• The Prefab Years – temporary housing in Dundee, 1945 to 1971
• New Windows of Opportunity: University of Dundee
• A Bridge to the Future – the Tay Road Bridge
• The Health of a City
• The Great Steam Crane at Victoria Dock
• A Traumatised Generation – the effects of rapid urban change
• 1975 – the Disco Days

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Theme – On the Waterfront

Contents

• The Growth of Dundee Harbour
• The Town on the Wrong Side of the Tracks – the effects of railway development on the waterfront
• Keeping it Light – the development of artificial lighting technology
• Glassworks
• Power to the People – electricity generation in the city
• The Road and the Miles to Dundee – the road bridge
• Fifies on the Firth – the story of the Tay ferries
• Whaling from Dundee
• The Eastward March of the Harbour
• Dundee’s Front Line – the DP&L Shipping Company

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