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The black-and-red-hulled Banglar Urmi docked at Dundee in October 1998, which signalled the death of the city's jute empire.

Cox’s Stack has remained a constant in Lochee while all around it has changed. It is now a relic of Dundee's once-buoyant jute industry.

Camperdown Works closure in 1981 marked the end of an era for Dundee jute empire © B. McLellan Camperdown Works where the jute mill closed for the final time in 1981. The closure of Camperdown Works 40 years was the death knell for Dundee’s ‘Juteopolis’ empire. For 130 years the Camperdown complex, at one time sprawling over more than 25 acres, was the industrial giant of the suburb. Countless thousands of Lochee folk spun there, sons and daughters following parents, generation after gen...