Dundee sights and friends at The Hill Bar

Captain Scott left Dundee in 1901 for his trip to Antartica. The ship has been refurbished and is one of Dundee’s highlights.  Hence the penguins that frequent the city

It’s birthed next to the new V&A, a building that in it self is a sculpture

I like these CR Mackintosh inspired benches and his Oak room

 

Tony Morrow created the Dundee Dragon

DC Thomson’s comic book hero Desperate Dan was “born” in Dundee.  Striding along with Dawg and harassed by Minnie the Minx.  The next day I was chatting with a couple of police officers and pointed out to them that overnight some tosser had taken the liberty to use a white marker to defuse the statue.

 

 

The McManus Gallery in the heart of Dundee is always worth a visit.

Another comic hero is another Thomson creation Oor Wullie.  There are approximately 200 statues of this lad around Scotland

 

Let’s go inside. “A Highland Parting” by Gourlay Steell, 1885

Thomas Graham from Kirkwell painted “Hunting Party at Stobhall (Perthshire) 1877

From Campbeltown, where he would have been familiar with the weather, William McTaggart produced “Through Wind & Rain” in 1875

Peter Graham’s “Moorland and Mist” 1893

I think John Macdonald’s Lochaber No More- Prince Charlie Saving Scotland is a bit romanticized.

The First Wounded, London Hospital August 1914

Staircase windows.

William Bruce Ellis Rankin, 1918, Pipe Practice

Himself again.

Whilst wandering about Dundee I saw this mural

Heading back down into the city I found myself at my “local” The Hill pub.  I call it that as on an earlier trip it was the closest to the B&B I was staying at on Constitution St.  it have been close to 2 years so I was pleasantly surprised as that the bartender asked if I had been in before.  I said yes and asked for Craig Montgomery and heard “I’m here Bill” from the corner where we had last part company. As one pint lead to another more and more folks came infall saying hello with one even showing a photo of us last visit!

The next day I spotted what’s left of The Unicorn, the oldest warship in the world, which is now a museum.  I didn’t have time to visit as I was meeting my friends Craig Harper & Karen Stenhouse for lunch.  So this trip to Dundee was more to see people than things

These plaques are close-ups of shields on a couple of fountains

Mre penguins and the city shield.