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