A few random bits from a quick visit to Dundee the other week, starting at the harbour:
(You wouldn't have guessed.) This is the Victoria Dock. It's all very different from the semi-abandoned state that I remember as a bairn, but thankfully they've been keeping and re-using some original leftovers from its industrial days, these being some transit sheds that they could easily have just demolished instead of converting into shops and offices:
And an old warehousey thing, the place with the clock in the last photo, now flats complete with nice wee modern balconies:
And a selectively quotable hoarding too - what more could you wish for:
Elsewhere, just behind Commercial Street, what turns out to be the massively altered remains of a flour mill/boot factory/tea warehouse (in that order, and partly very old indeed):
And lets hear it for old business signs in doorways (this being on Commercial Street just below the Seagate):
Unrelated, and way along the esplanade along the Tay, a nice wee gesture from persons unknown:
Finally, there's a lot of change at the waterfront (and not before time). In the middle of the background is what was Mathers Temperance Hotel, in later years the Tay Hotel, then even more latterly a homeless hostel, followed by a several years-long period of being empty, boarded up and rather threatened-looking. Its fortunes have turned round, as it's recently become a very swish-looking Malmaison. In the foreground, where the above ground buildings of the railway station* used to be:
*Dundee Station, as the railway authorities would have it, but to me it'll always be Tay Bridge Station. I'm off out now to buy some Opal Fruits and a Marathon.