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Jute loom model

Creator: NationalMuseumsScotland on 8 Apr 2011, 1 p.m.

Model loom, probably made by apprentice textile engineers in a foundry, Dundee.

On loan from Dundee Heritage Trust, Verdant Works

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Dundee

Clip part of larger film about industry in Dundee. The film was premiered at a meeting of the British Association in Dundee, September 1939, the screening was abandoned midway owing to the declaration of war. Film immediately rendered obsolete.

Film Courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archives, NLS.

Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 26 Jan 2011, 11:33 a.m.

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Margo

Remembers seeing films at school in the 1940s and 1950s about Dundee.

Collapse of the Tay Bridge (as shown in larger clip of film) influenced the design of the Forth Road Bridge. Margo's grandfather was supposed to be on the train that was going across the river Tay when the bridge collapsed as he was late, if he had made the train Margo would never have been here to tell her tale.

Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 24 Oct 2011, 3:53 p.m.

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Reg

Reg's wife was born in 1947 in Dundee so the film offered some interesting insights for him.

Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 24 Oct 2011, 3:59 p.m.

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