Thursday 16 January 2025, 7.00 pm
Talk by Dr Erin Farley
The Wellgate Project began when Adam Piggot, a Glasgow-based designer and artist, got in touch with the Local History Centre at Dundee Libraries with a creative idea inspired by his family history research. To mark fifty years since the demolition of the original Wellgate, Dundee Libraries began collecting memories of life and work in the street before its redevelopment. Erin Farley from Dundee Libraries’ Local History Centre will speak about the early history of the Wellgate, its importance in the growth of Dundee and its development into a busy city centre shopping street, as well as sharing some of the memories and stories collected through the project so far.
Dr. Erin Farley is the Library & Information Officer for the Local History Centre at Dundee Libraries, which holds a large and varied collection of books, manuscripts, images, oral histories and print ephemera. She is also a traditional storyteller. Erin completed a PhD thesis on working-class writing communities, The Place of Poetry in Victorian Dundee, at the University of Strathclyde in 2019.
The talk will take place as usual in Dundee Art Society’s Roseangle Gallery, starting at 7.00 pm (19:00). Guests are welcome and there will be an opportunity to chat over a glass of wine afterwards.