Dundee’s Lost Coastline: The Story of Will’s Braes

The opening of the Dundee to Perth railway in 1847 brought great economic benefits. However, in Dundee it initiated unprecedented environmental devastation, severing the connection between the land and the Tay. The coastal ‘paradise’ between Invergowrie and Magdalen Green, much treasured by the town’s inhabitants, was destroyed with loss of botanical, geological and recreational amenity, together with the creation of pollutant-filled lagoons. This talk explores the changes that have taken place along this once natural ‘Riverside’ to the present day.

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