University of Dundee Archives

View over city looking east. From top of Tower building showing City churches, Overgate, town centre and bridges.

Part of University photographs: buildings, people and Tayside

University of Dundee

Susan Gregory Oral History Community Spirit in 1960s Housing

MS 372
Collection
2011

Oral history recordings, permission forms and transcripts created during Gregory's research for a history dissertation, during her 4th year as a student at Dundee University. The purpose of the research was to understand why perceived community spirit in the tenements altered in the new 1960s housing.

Susan Gregory

[DF 12] Plan of the lands at Stobcross, Angus, for Grainger & Millar.

MS 42/P/4
Item
1915

Part of Giddings & Lewis-Fraser Ltd

Marked to show proposed building line. [1837] Surveyor: [William Johnstone]. Scale approx. 1 in. to 100 ft. 29 x 31 cm. [1:1200] [Tracing]

Plan of St. Phillip's town and castle, with the fortifications on the island of Minorca, engraved for the Town and County Almanack.

MS 51/P9
Item
1782

Part of Charles Tennant Collection of Maps and Plans

Engraver: D. Lizars. Scale approx. 0.5 in. to 200 yds. [1:14400] 19 x 16 cm.

Photograph of derelict Ashton Works

MS 60/6/3/3
Item
c 1997

Part of Caird (Dundee) Ltd, Jute Manufacturers

Photograph showing what used to be the floor and some attached buildings of the now derelict Ashton Works, Hawkhill. The roof is missing.

Belmont Works (jute weaving and calendering) with the later University buildings of Mountpleasant and 5-7 Hawkhill Place.

MS 66/10/12/1/1
Part
1922

Part of Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

Belmont Works (jute weaving and calendering) with the later University buildings of Mountpleasant and 5-7 Hawkhill Place.

Aerial view of site for Douglasfield Works, Douglas housing estate and Milton of Craigie farm.

MS 66/10/12/2/107
Item
[1955]

Part of Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

Aerial view of site for Douglasfield Works, Douglas housing estate and Milton of Craigie farm.

Elevation of part of factory building.

MS 86/1/D/23
Item
n.d

Part of A & S Henry & Co Ltd

Scale: 1 ¼ in. to 10 ft. [1:96] 57 x 34 cm.

A & S Henry & Co Ltd

Elevation of factory building.

MS 86/1/D/24
Item
n.d

Part of A & S Henry & Co Ltd

Scale: 1 ¼ in. to 10 ft. [1:96] 167 x 36 cm.

A & S Henry & Co Ltd

Plan of pier on mill side [draft shaft support between old and new houses, Samnuggur]. Hick, Hargreaves' original plan and Lilybank plan A6469 for building.

MS 86/1/D/48
Item
1889-1890

Part of A & S Henry & Co Ltd

Scale: ½ in. to 1 ft. [1:24] 62 x 47 cm.

A & S Henry & Co Ltd

Plan of the ground floor of 'The Cottage', Lochee for J.C. Methven Esquire

MS 66/2/10/60
Item
1907

Part of Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

Plan of 'The Cottage', Lochee for J.C.Methven Esquire. Shows the ground floor of the building. Scale 1.5ins to 10 feet. 45 x 58cm

Plan of the first floor of 'The Cottage', Lochee for J.C. Methven Esquire

MS 66/2/10/61
Item
1907

Part of Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

Plan of 'The Cottage', Lochee for J.C.Methven Esquire. Shows the first floor of the building. (Deposited Seperately) Scale 1.5ins to 10 feet. 45 x 58cm

Camperdown Works [buildings identified by letters but no key included on plan]; Drawing no. A50.

MS 66/2/12/2/16
Item
n.d.

Part of Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

[Print and negative].

Sidlaw Industries Ltd

Health and Housing

MS 68/1/20
Item
c 1960

Part of Dr William Christie

H...Misc', miscellaneous newspaper cuttings mainly relating to health and housing. Includes index to unidentified source on housing.

Foundations for jute warehouses with Milton of Craigie farm and Douglas housing estate in background.

MS 66/10/12/2/3
Item
1955

Part of Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

Foundations for jute warehouses with Milton of Craigie farm and Douglas housing estate in background.

Aerial view of site for Douglasfield Works, Douglas Road, Douglas housing estate, Douglas Bleachfield and Greenfield and Greenfield House.

MS 66/10/12/2/99
Item
[1955]

Part of Sidlaw Industries, Dundee

Aerial view of site for Douglasfield Works, Douglas Road, Douglas housing estate, Douglas Bleachfield and Greenfield and Greenfield House.

Bundle of letters regarding housing in Dundee

MS 93/1/8/2/9/1/1
Item
May - July 1922

Part of D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee

C.C. Foster, The Scottish Office, Whitehall, S.W.1, to E. Marsh. Talks about the 1919 Housing Act and that it allowed Dundee Town Council to provide 140 two room houses with bathrooms.

MS 93/1/8/2/9/1/1/10
Part
8 Jun 1922

Part of D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee

D.J. MacDonald to Dr. Burgess. States that no family living in the slum areas has benefited from the new housing schemes and that all slums in Dundee need to be cleared

MS 93/1/8/2/9/1/1/2
Part
18 Aug 1922

Part of D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee

Letter from C.C. Foster, The Scottish office, Whitehall, S.W.1, to Mr. Marsh. Talks about a request from the Dundee Housing Committee for the Scottish Board of Health to build a large number of 2 room houses.

MS 93/1/8/2/9/1/1/9
Part
27 May 1922

Part of D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee

Copy of speech regarding insufficient housing, the depression of industry and trade and a Capital Levy

MS 93/1/8/2/9/8/17
Item
n.d.

Part of D J MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee

Petitions relating to the building of shops, dwelling houses and a garage.

Part of Baxter Brothers & Co Ltd, linen and jute spinners and manufacturers, Dundee

Workers' housing in Lyon Street, Dundee, built by Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd, [to house 80 families], 1866-1867

Part of Baxter Brothers & Co Ltd, linen and jute spinners and manufacturers, Dundee

Mounted photos of mills and buildings in Dundee

Part of Low & Bonar Ltd, Jute Spinners, Manufacturers and Merchants, Dundee

Awanting

Chapter 14: Fires and Chimneys. [pp.297-331]

MS 102/1/2/14
Part
1865-1866

Part of Peter Carmichael of Arthurstone (1809-1891)

A lazy watchman - Buildings fire-proof - Effect of alum solution - Experiments - Theory put into practice - Paper on factory chimneys - The three at the Dens - Effect of a gale - Importance of draught - Houses for workpeople - Spontaneous combustion - Danger of greasy waste and dust - Experiments on oils - Fires in 1865 - Simultaneous fires in 1866 - Charles Mackie's training of nephew James - Tour in manufacturing districts - Trouble from masons - The limited principle - Domestic troubles.

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