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The Matador Land and Cattle Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1878-
The Matador Land and Cattle Company had its beginning in 1878, when a Texas cattleman, Henry H. (Hank) Campbell, took a herd of longhorn cattle to Chicago and sold them for a handsome profit. Following the sale, Campbell entered into a partnership with A. M. Britton, a banker, and returned to Texas to acquire a range, purchase cattle, and establish a ranch. The presence of venture capital in Great Britain during the last quarter of the nineteenth century led Britton to Scotland in 1882. There, in Dundee, he succeeded in arousing the interest of a group of businessmen who were eager to invest their funds in American mines, lumber, land, or cattle. Led by several Dundee merchants, the Scots incorporated the Matador Land and Cattle Company, Limited, a joint-stock company, and agreed to purchase the Texas properties.

School of Food & Accommodation Management

  • Corporate body
  • 1975-2003
The School of Food & Accommodation Management came into existence in 1975 and was situated in the Matthew Building in the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art campus. It was renamed the School of Management and Consumer Studies (MACS) and became a department of the University of Dundee after the 1994 merger. In 2003 it was transferred to the University of Abertay, Dundee.

Young at Heart

  • Corporate body
  • fl. 2022-
Young at Heart is a women's group is based at Kirkton Community Centre and consists mainly of retired women from the local area. They meet each week to chat, and arrange visits and activities involving other groups, organisations and individuals

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

  • Corporate body
  • 1974-
Until 1975 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art was the Dundee Institute of Art and Technology. However, in 1975, the Institute spit, to become the Institute of Technology, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. In 1994, the art college became a faculty of Dundee University.

SAPPHIRE

  • Corporate body
  • 1996-
As a major employer in twentieth century Scottish industry, whose importance has been widely acknowledged, the print and publishing industry has a social, economic and cultural history which has been little researched and documented. The SAPPHIRE initiative was set up in 1996 as the first sustained attempt to fill this gap within that knowledge of the industry. Since then, the project has developed a substantial oral history archive and database. It has documented aspects of the working lives of people who were employed in the industry, had connections with it, and were involved in instituting the large changes that took place within it. SAPPHIRE has created a permanent archive and database, now housed in the Archives centre at the University of Dundee. SAPPHIRE has been created as a collaborative initiative developed in partnership with a range of educational, professional and non-commercial organisations concerned with preserving the social, economic and cultural history of the men and women who worked in the print and publishing industries. In addition to the archival collection, SAPPHIRE is providing material for a series of initiatives to benefit Scottish heritage and educational communities, such as research projects, a series of short publications, books, an exhibition on Thomas Nelson and Sons in Edinburgh in 2001 and an exhibition on Papermaking on the Water of Leith in 2004. Partnership is between the University of Napier and University of Dundee. See http://sapphire.ac.uk/

Dundee University Press

  • Corporate body
  • 2003-2013
Established in 2003 as a limited company, the DUP published a range of subjects, including law, history and poetry, edited and authored by academics attached to the University of Dundee. In 2013, the company was bought by Edinburgh University Press.

Baxter Park Trustees

  • Corporate body
  • 1860-1908
Baxter Park was donated to the community by Sir David Baxter of Kilmaron (1793-1872) and his sisters Eleanor and Mary Anne (1800-1884). The layout of the park's 37 acres was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and included grassy areas, terraced walks and shrubberies which offered 'a most agreeable summer promenade affording beautiful recreation and pure air to all classes.' In the pavilion at the centre of the park, a marble statue of Sir David was erected, paid for by public subscription. On 9 September 1863 Baxter Park was opened by John Russsell, 1st Earl Russell (a former and future Prime Minister) in front of a crowd of over 70,000 people. Originally estimated to have cost £50,000, Baxter Park was placed under the charge of Trustees. In 1908, because the Trust Investments were no longer enough to maintain the park, the Trustees handed over responsibility to the Town Council.

Abertay Historical Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1947-
The Abertay Historical Society was founded at a meeting in University College, Dundee on 29 May, 1947 by the Principal, Major-General D.N. Wimberley and History Lecturer, Dr Wainwright. It was formed to encourage the study of local history in Angus, Perthshire and Fife.
The Society and the University of Dundee have maintained close links: its meetings are normally held on University premises, while many members and office-holders have been University staff, including several presidents. The Society's original remit has been implemented through talks and lectures, excursions and annual publications, and with other agencies, it has also lobbied for the preservation of local historical buildings. It was instrumental in the creation of Dundee Heritage Trust. The Society also takes part in the Dundee Afternoon Lecture Series, which is run jointly by the Dundee Centre of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Dundee Members' Group of the National Trust for Scotland, the Dundee Naturalists' Society and the Abertay Historical Society. While based in Dundee, the Society also organises events in other parts of the Abertay area.
The Archaeological Section of the Society was originally started as a semi-independent division of the Society, organising local excavations, and its own series of meetings, but from 1993, it was decided that the Council would oversee the running of the Section. The mid-1990s also saw the end of members excursions. For a brief period in the early 1970s, there was also an Industrial Archaeology Section, mainly concerned with recording the local industrial heritage. The archaeological work carried out by the Society has, since 2015, been organised by its Fieldwork Division.
Since 1953, the Society has produced publications, usually on an annual basis, with the majority written by members.

Tayside Regional Council

  • Corporate body
  • 1974-1996
Tayside Regional Council was formed in 1974 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65). Under the Act a two tier system of local government was instituted with regional councils responsible for functions including social work, education, electoral registration, roads, valuation and rating, water and sewerage, police, and fire. Regional councils were elected in 1974 and acted as shadow authorities until May 1975, when they assumed full powers. Tayside Regional Council covered an area of 2897 square miles and had a population of almost 400,000. The new region took in, with some boundary changes, the former county councils of Perthshire, Kinross-shire, and Forfarshire, and the City of Dundee. It also inherited the bus undertakings of Dundee, which it went on to own and operate as a limited company under the terms of the Transport Act 1985 (c.67). District councils were responsible for the more local services. The district councils of City of Dundee, Angus and Perth and Kinross administered the remaining council services. Regional councils and district councils were abolished under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39). They were replaced in 1996 by a single-tier local government structure. Some functions, including water and sewerage, taken over in this instance by North of Scotland Water Board and East of Scotland Water Authority, were removed from local government altogether, and arrangements were made for others to be carried out by the successor authorities jointly. Tayside Regional Council was replaced by the unitary councils of Dundee, Angus, and Perth and Kinross.

Lord Robert's Workshop/Royal Dundee Institution for the Blind/ Blindcraft

  • Corporate body
  • 1869-
The Dundee Institution for the Blind can trace its origin to 1865 when Mr Frances Mollison purchased Dallfield House in order to establish an institution for the blind. In 1869 it finally opened as the Dundee Institution for the Blind and it provided work, support and education for men and women who were blind or partially blind.
In 1885 the new building on Magdalen Green was opened and in 1916 it was renamed the Royal Dundee Institution for the Blind.
The name was changed again in 1986 to Royal Dundee Blindcraft. The products thus reflecting its increasingly commercial nature.
In the 1920s, a Lord Roberts Workshop was established in Dundee to provide employment for disabled ex-servicemen. Although the Lord Roberts Workshop and the Royal Dundee Institution for the Blind both primarily made furniture they were independent from each other until 1993 when they amalgamated. The new company was called Dovetail Enterprises and based itself in a new factory unit in Dunsinane Avenue in the Dunsinane Industrial Estate in Dundee.

The Alliance Trust

  • Corporate body
  • 1888-

The Alliance Trust was formed in 1888 by the merger of the Dundee Investment Company, the Dundee Mortgage and Trust, the Oregon and Washington Trust and the Oregon and Washington Savings Bank, Limited. The firm initially operated from office in Panmure Street, later moving to offices in Meadowside and then to Meadow House in Reform Street.
Many prominent figures in Dundee and Angus invested some of their money in the Alliance Trust and its predecessors, including land owners, merchants, ship owners, ship builders, textile manufacturers and businessman including the Earl of Airlie and Sir John Leng.
From 1918 the firm shared its premises and most of its operations with the Western & Hawaiian Investment Company which was eventually renamed the Second Alliance Trust. Although in practice this was effectively a merger, the two companies remained legally distinct entities until 2006 when a full merger took place.
For most of their early existence the two Alliance Trusts' main interests were focused on the mortgage and land business, which was centred on agricultural areas of the western United States (especially Oregon, Idaho and Texas) and Hawaii. The company also established a successful business leasing mineral rights of properties in Texas and Oklahoma to prospectors, as well as investing in a number of other ventures in the UK and further afield.

From 2008 until 2011 it was listed on the FTSE 100 index. In the 2000s the company left Reform Street and moved to new purpose built premises in West Marketgait, from which they removed in 2019

James Scott & Sons

  • Corporate body
  • 1797-1971

James Scott & Sons Ltd, merchants, spinners and jute manufacturers, Dundee originated in 1797 when David Scott bought a property in Mid Wynd. He passed the business to his son David in 1820. The younger David was a victim of the cholera outbreak in 1849 so the business passed to his sons, James and and William, who carried the the business under their names until William retired in 1871. This left James Scott as the only owner of the business until he brought in his three eldest sons as partners.

The company then became known as James Scott & Sons, as listed in the 1878/9 Dundee Directory, until in 1905 it became James Scott & Sons Ltd. James Scott was a manufacture in Dundee's textile trade. He laid the foundations at the Mid Bank Wynd where he conducted a warping mill. In his later year James Scott also bought the Dura Works, from P and J Walker, and Hillbank Linen Works, from A. Low, two other large textile establishments in Dundee. In addition to this, James Scott helped established a strong trade with New York and the River Plate. He also frequently journeyed around Europe and 'was observant of the eye and receptive of the mind' James Scott died on the 26th January 1908 at his residence in Hyndford.

National League of the Blind

  • Corporate body
  • 1899-2000
The National League of the Blind and Disabled (NLBD) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.The union was founded, as the National League of the Blind, in 1899, and it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in 1902. It was initially led by Ben Purse, a piano tuner, and the 1900s, its secretary was Thomas Summerbell. The League organised its first strike in 1912. In 1920, it organised marches to Trafalgar Square from Leeds, Manchester and Newport in support of what became the Blind Persons Act 1920. Purse left the union in 1921, forming the National Union of Industrial and Professional Blind, which later became the National Association of Blindworkers, and focused on providing benefits to its members. The National League organised a further march in 1936 which helped achieve a further Blind Persons Act in 1938 The union renamed itself as the "National League of the Blind and Disabled" in 1968 and by 1979 had a membership of just under 5,000. By 2000, it had 4,000 members, and it merged into the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. The Dundee Branch had been affiliated prior to 1935, and probably since the turn of the 20th century.
Source: Wikipedia

Angus Jute Co Ltd

  • Corporate body
  • 1913-1969
Angus Jute Co Ltd was incorporated in 1913 to carry out the business of a Calcutta jute mill. In 1917 the Angus Engineering Works were established as a repair shop to the Angus Jute works and for the supply of spare parts for machinery used in the jute mills. In 1918 the name The Angus Co Ltd was adopted. The Angus Engineering Works were extended in 1922 and commenced the manufacture of textile machinery and in 1961 they were leased to Braithwaite & Co (India) Ltd. Thomas Duff & Co Ltd were appointed as agents to the company in 1933. In 1969, with the formation of the Titaghur Group of companies, the Angus Company Ltd, with its shares already held by companies within the Group, became a subsidiary of the Titaghur Group.

British Association for the Advancement of Science: Tayside and Fife Branch

  • Corporate body
  • 1974-2019
The British Association for the Advancement of Science was founded in 1831. The Tayside Area Committee was set up in 1960 for the purpose of organising a lecture service for schools in the area. In 1974 following a general re-organisation of the Association and introduction of a new constitution, the Tayside and Fife branch was formed and the Area Committee reconstituted as a Branch Committee.
The objects of the Branch, under the terms of its constitution drawn up in 1974, are 'to provide on behalf of the council of the British Association within the Tayside and Fife Regions an inter-disciplinary forum for scientists and technologists; to promote a wider understanding of the problems and achievements of science and technology and their consequences for the nation; especially to encourage young people to take an interest in science by supporting BAYS [British Association Young Scientists]; and to develop the activity of the constituent organs of the British Association towards these ends'.
However, after a change in the constitution of the Association, the Branch could no longer function effectively and it wound up in 2019.

D J MacDonald Ltd

  • Corporate body
  • 1892-1984
The company was founded in 1892 by David J MacDonald (1857-1940) initially at works in Dens Road, moving after three years to South Saint Roque's Works. In 1901 the Company purchased the stock, goodwill and buildings in Ward Road of A C Scott (mill-furnisher). The mill-furnishing business was removed to South Saint Roque's Works and the Ward Road property transformed into a garage, which the Rossleigh Company tenanted for 5 years. On the removal of the Rossleigh Company to other premises, the property was remodelled again and automobile engineering was added to the Company's other activities.
In 1920 D J MacDonald's elder (and only surviving) son, W R MacDonald, took over the general management of Saint Roque's Works and Garage. Later the businesses were transformed into two private limited companies: Saint Roque's Automobile Co Ltd in 1921, and D J MacDonald Ltd in 1922, with himself and his son and daughter as the only shareholders and directors; his son being General Manager of both Companies.
D J MacDonald Ltd was voluntarily wound up in 1984, although part of the company was bought by Perth Foundry Ltd, and continued to trade under the name of MacDonald Engineering (Dundee) Ltd, at Hawkhill Court, Mid Wynd for the 'manufacture of sack sewing machinery, special purpose machining, general engineering, installation, maintenance and repair'.
Saint Roques Automobile Co Ltd was not affected. D J MacDonald manufactured an extremely wide range of machinery but tended to specialise in those concerned with the finishing processes of textiles; sewing machines, printing machines and proofing/impregnating machines.

Sunnyside Royal Hospital

  • Corporate body
  • 1781-2011
The Montrose Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary and Dispensary was founded in 1781 by Mrs. Susan Carnegie of Charleton for the treatment of private and pauper patients, and was the first mental hospital in Scotland. It was built on the Montrose Links on a site bounded by Barrack Road, Ferry Road and Garrison Road and was granted a Royal Charter in 1810.
A new improved Asylum with better facilities was completed in 1858, situated on lands of Sunnyside farm, in the village of Hillside, on the outskirts of Montrose. Carnegie House was built for private patients in 1899. In 1913 the Royal Charter was amended, after which it was renamed the Royal Asylum of Montrose and that part of the Institution which consisted of the Infirmary and Dispensary was disjoined and received its own Royal Charter.
However, overcrowding was a problem with patient numbers reaching 670 by 1900, precipitating the need for further accommodation. As a result, Howden Villa was completed in 1901 and Northesk Villa was completed in 1904. Westmount Cottages were built in 1905 to house the extra staff required to care of the additional patients. The lease of Sunnyside Farm expired in 1911 and over 52 acres were purchased for the sum of £4500. Angus House was built in 1939 to accommodate elderly patients suffering from dementia.
With the advent of the National Health Service in 1948, the Asylum was renamed the Royal Mental Hospital of Montrose and came under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Regional Hospital Board. It was again renamed in 1962, when it became Sunnyside Royal Hospital. When Sunnyside celebrated its bicentenary in 1981, the number of patients was approximately 400. The hospital closed in 2011. Many of its patients and functions were transferred to the newly opened Susan Carnegie Centre at Stracathro Hospital, Angus.

Club 66

  • Corporate body
  • 1966-
The Club is made up of members who were medical students and qualified in 1966 from Queen's College, Dundee. It was formed to organise student reunions

Stanley Mills

  • Corporate body
  • 1786-1989
Stanley Mills was established as a cotton mill by local merchants in 1786 with the support of English cotton baron Richard Arkwright. Initially business flourished and a secondary mill was established to meet the needs of the ever-expanding complex. However, following extensive fire damage and a period of industrial decline, triggered by war in France, the business was forced to close in 1799. It was bought by James Craig in 1801, with financial support from David Dale, the founder of the Lanark Mills, and reopened that same year. Despite a promising start the company's success soon fell away and the complex was again closed in 1813. After 10 years of closure, the mill was bought and reopened by Buchanan and Co. of Glasgow. The company developed the business by building a Mid Mill, enlarging the East Mill and developing the Stanley Village to include a Church and new housing complex. The company enjoyed considerable success for 30 years before Buchanan sold the business in 1852 to Samuel Howard. Following the cotton famine of the 1860s, the business was again closed. It was purchased by Frank Stewart Sandeman in 1880 who modernised production by replacing waterwheels with more efficient water turbines. In an effort to further improve the business's fortunes, Sandeman also diversified production and began producing cotton belts for use in industrial machines and selvedge cotton for use in the booming jute and linen industries. The business continued to operate until 1989 when it closed its doors for the last time.

Design in Action

  • Corporate body
  • 2012-2016
The Design in Action (DiA) project ran from June 2012 to December 2016 was a funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and Creative Scotland. The collaborative knowledge exchange was led by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and partnered with Abertay University, Glasgow School of Art, Gray's College of Art at Robert Gordon University, Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.

Stracathro Hospital

  • Corporate body
  • 1939-
Stracathro Hospital was established in 1939 as a wartime Emergency Hospital facility for casualties of World War II. It then became a District General Hospital and since 2005, Stracathro has been the site for the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre.

Electric Soup Press

  • Corporate body
  • fl 1991
Based in Glasgow and in collaboration with John Brown Publishing, London, Electric Soup published several issues of the Electric Soup comic
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