Aerial view of site for Douglasfield Works, Douglas housing estate and Milton of Craigie farm.

Health and Housing

Country v Town

Prospect of the Town of Dundee

The Prospect of the Town of Dundee

Phograph of the Mars

High Street, Dundee

Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Works; plan showing [proposed] extensions and new buildings. Attached freehand plan of the area.

Samnuggur Jute Factory Co. Works; plan showing new buildings and land for possible purchase.

Copy of D/48. Lily Bank plan A6469 marked, "This building plan was not sent from Lilybank, N.R. Lindsay". [Blueprint]

Elevation of factory building.

Elevation of part of factory building.

Plan of pier on mill side [draft shaft support between old and new houses, Samnuggur]. Hick, Hargreaves' original plan and Lilybank plan A6469 for building.

Copy of speech regarding the issues that have been addressed in the past 18 months, i.e. Old age pensions and the housing scheme

D.J. MacDonald to Mr. Marsh, 'Housing Scheme'. Talks about whether the additional rent incurred from new housing should be paid by the tenant or by local and imperial taxation.

Hand-written page titled 'Housing'. n.d.

D.J. MacDonald to Dr. Burgess. States that no family living in the slum areas has benefited from the new housing schemes and that all slums in Dundee need to be cleared

Bundle of letters regarding housing in Dundee

C.C. Foster, The Scottish Office, Whitehall, S.W.1, to E. Marsh. Talks about the 1919 Housing Act and that it allowed Dundee Town Council to provide 140 two room houses with bathrooms.

Bundle of papers dealing with various issues and with different peoples opinions on them (for example, Churchill, Ramsey MacDonald, Asquith and the Dundee Advertiser. Topics are unemployment, taxation, housing, coalition, Irish question, economy, trade...