The Stack

This is the Dundee landmark, known as Cox's Stack or simply The Stack and it is the tallest surviving industrial chimney in Scotland, standing at 282 feet 10 inches. It also has to be one of the most decorative, with its Italianate-style brickwork design. It was erected in 1865-66 at a cost of £6,000 and was the chimney for the largest jute mill in Dundee.

Some of the old mill buildings have been restored and are now flats, but many others have been knocked down and the area redeveloped with modern housing. It was good to see that the builders had incorporated similar brickwork into the ends of the new houses to keep a link with the past.

Met up with a friend for lunch in Dundee today and we decided to have a look at this area while we were there, as I have discovered while researching my family tree, that several ancestors on my mother's side were weavers and spinners at a Dundee jute mill. I'm not sure which mill (there were lots of them!), but they lived close to this area so it could well have been Cox's Mill and they would have seen this chimney every day:-) Nice to have this link still standing.