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Dundee is a vibrant city on the banks of the Firth of Tay. It has been described as owing its fame to “jute, jam and journalism”. Jute, a coarse vegetable fibre was imported from Bengal and processed in Dundee’s mills into hessian and other materials. Keiller’s Marmalade and the D.C. Thomson publishing house (Beano and Dandy) completed the trio. Now the city is a major centre of the digital entertainment industry.
As befitting its location, Dundee was a shipbuilding centre, building over 200 ships each year in its heyday. It will remain notorious for the Tay Bridge Disaster, when the bridge collapsed under a train during a storm in December 1879 with the loss of 75 lives.
Just outside Dundee is Carnoustie, now famous for its golf links, and further along the coast is Arbroath, a fishing port whose method of smoking haddock led to the term ’Arbroath Smokies’. The whole county of Angus is rich in Pictish relics.
In the north of the county is Montrose, dominated by its 220 ft high steeple. The town is on the seaward side of Montrose Basin, a two square mile tidal lagoon, an internationally-regarded nature reserve particularly associated with the mute swan.
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Overlooking the Tay and its bridge, Dundee is a major coastal city, university town and historic and cultural centre. |
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The picturesque coastal town of Arbroath has two museums, an annual Sea Fest, and of course the smokehouses where Arbroath Smokies are produced. |
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The Royal Burgh of Montrose is located around a natural harbour, and has an important wildlife sanctuary and spectacular unspoilt sands. |
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