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Plans for two projects that will create 121 new homes in Lochee and Douglas in Dundee have been approved by Dundee City Council.

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 generation. When the jute trade was busy, Lochee prospered. Irish counties In its heyday the city was t...