Dundee in General

Dundee...Shopping Dundee is one of Scotlands largest cities. It also has it's fair share of shops. Which range from small independant retailers to large chain stores. The shopping areas in Dundee are spread over different areas. You have 2 shopping malls. The Wellgate Centre and The Overgate Centre. The Wellgate Centre It has had a couple of revamps over the past 30 years but could maybe do with a bit of a spring clean. It has BHS which is probably the biggest shop in the centre along with TGHughs. I would say about 60% of the centre is occupied by shop outlets. Shops are spread over 3 levels. It also has its oven car park linked to ...  Read the complete review

Dundee is a Scottish city situated on the east coast, a few miles inland, on the north bank of the river Tay. The Tay separates it from Fife (although road and rail bridges now connect the city to the Kingdom) and approaching over the bridge gives perhaps the best view of the fantastic situation of the city. It certainly looks good from a distance, though the skyline is still marred by some dreadful tower blocks. Although surrounded by the farming counties of Angus and Perthshire, Dundee is not an overgrown market town like Perth up the river: the original mercantile burgh whose prominence was built on the sea trade with the Low Countries and the Baltic ...  Read the complete review

It has been the case for a long time that Dundee's wealth and prosperity was built on the three J's. Jute,which was imported into the city from India and Pakistan, was spun and then woven in the manufacture of bags used in packaging. Jam which was produced at the world famous Keiller's factory. Journalism was significant, not least for the huge plant of D C Thomson, perhaps still best known as the producers of The Beano. Dundee remains a large city boasting like Edinburgh and Glasgow two premier league football teams. This winter will also see the opening of a new ice rink to replace the one closed 5 years ago. Dundee has many nice hotels. At the ...  Read the complete review

Im going to give you my guide of thing to do in Dundee!! SHOPPING- There is two main shopping centres both within a few streets of each other with shops in-between in two. The first is the Wellgate, which inclueds Virgin music store,McDonalds,Mark One,T K Maxx,Logo for less,Clairs ect.theWellgate is 3 floors full of great stores which are full of great things inclueding on the 4th floor the main childrens libary for Dundee. The other centre is the Overgate which inclueds Gap,Next,Oasis,H&M,Superdrug, and other top store. Again is a great place to shop. Both are in the centre of the city. NATURE- For the best place to get "fresh air" is ...  Read the complete review

I have listed a variety of points about my home town, hopefully there's something relivant to everyone. Dundee was the home port of the Antarctic exploration ship RRS Discovery, the historic vessel which took Captain Robert Scott to Antarctica. Hence Dundee's slogan - "City of Discovery" The Mills Observatory on Dundee's Balgay Hill is Britain's only full-time public observatory. (I've not visited for a while but have fond memories of a neat electronic model of the solar system) The "Law" (the hill around which Dundee is built) is a dormant volcanoe. It provides a great view of Dundee, the River Tay ...  Read the complete review