| Dundee flourished between 1700 and 1900 | | | | Although Dundee was famous for its jams |
| primarily because of the jute industry. | | | | the number of people employed in the |
| At one time it was said that there were | | | | industry was small compared to jute and |
| more millionaires per head of population | | | | journalism. As competition grew in the |
| in Dundee then anywhere else in the | | | | late 1900s the factory struggled to make |
| world! | | | | any profits. The Keillor factory was |
| At one point, jute employed more people | | | | bought by the Okhai family in the 1980s |
| in Dundee then all the other industries | | | | but they were unable to make the |
| combined. Then due to competition from | | | | business profitable and it eventually |
| Asia the jute industry slowly died a | | | | closed down. |
| death. Now there are only a few people | | | | Journalism still thrives in Dundee |
| employed in the jute industry in Dundee. | | | | today. The business owned by the DC |
| Verdant Works is a restored working | | | | Thomson family created many famous |
| museum where jute is still produced | | | | characters including Dennis the Menace, |
| today. You can see for yourself how jute | | | | Desperate Dan, Billy Whiz and the Bash |
| was manufactured and learn more about | | | | Street Kids. They publish The Courier |
| the rise and decline of the jute | | | | newspaper, Sunday Post, Scots Magazine, |
| industry. At its peak over 500 people | | | | Weekly News as well as the Beano, Dandy. |
| were employed at Verdant Works. | | | | According to their own figures they |
| Conditions must have been tough for the | | | | publish over 200 million newspapers and |
| workers because the factory is not that | | | | magazines each year. |
| large! | | | | Dundee at its peak had over two hundred |
| It has been said that marmalade was | | | | thousand people living and working in |
| invented by Janet Keillor. They had | | | | the city. As the industry has slowly |
| ordered Oranges from Seville which | | | | died younger people and especially |
| arrived late sometime around 1700 and | | | | graduates are leaving to work in the |
| were very bitter. Janet Keillor managed | | | | larger cities. Now it has a population |
| to make the original recipe for | | | | of around a hundred and forty thousand. |
| marmalade. Her son then developed the | | | | Dundee is a beautiful place to live |
| recipe further and made Keillor's jams | | | | sitting on "the Banks of the Bonny Bay." |
| and marmalades famous throughout the | | | | The Law is at the centre of Dundee and |
| world. | | | | was at on point an active volcano. Now |
| This story is probably not one hundred | | | | you can drive up to the top and from |
| percent true as some types of marmalade | | | | this vantage point see all the four |
| were probably being eaten in Spain and | | | | corners of Dundee. |
| Portugal before this late shipment of | | | | Dundee is a great place to visit if you |
| bitter oranges arrived in Dundee. | | | | want to see Scotland. Aberdeen, |
| Marmalade is a sweet sticky condiment | | | | Edinburgh and Glasgow are all within an |
| that tastes great on toast at breakfast | | | | hours reach. Perth and St Andrews (the |
| time. It is not to everybody's liking | | | | home of golf) are both within twenty |
| though with many people and especially | | | | minutes drive. |
| children who find it unpalatable. | | | | |