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Teacher's Guide Verdant Works floor plan 20. Women & Work 22. Jute Barons A film show looks at the reversal of traditional male Learn about the families who owned the mills. and female roles in Dundee. Learn about the mill girls, Discover the gifts the Jute Barons gave to the city. The Suffragettes and the unions. Watch the film carefully Jute Barons lived on the outskirts of the city and many for information about family life. In today’s society it is of their houses are still standing today. Why did they normal for the wife and mother to work. Due to choose to live on the outskirts, far from their factories CAR PARKINGA AREA AATT REAR OF BUILDING BALCONY cheap labour, Dundee had a huge female workforce. and mills? Did you know that Broughty Ferry was SECOND FLOOR 18 BALCONY 21 The women in Dundee, many of whom were the main once known as ‘Millionaire’s Mile’? Would better LIFT & 20 STAIRS 17 19 22 FIRST FLOOR wage earners, were very militant. Dundee had a very housing have been more appropriate than the gifts of 23 STAIIRS TO GROUND FLOOR strong Suffragette and Union background. public buildings and parks? There were some LIFT & STAIRS examples of housing built by the mill owners but this 6 5 21. Children & Leisure was not common. 14 13 7 8 9 10 Visit the Victorian Half-Time School and also see how 15 the workers spent their precious leisure time. Many 12 11 MILN STREET 16 GROUND FLOOR 4 Victorian children had to work part-time, crawling LIFT & STAIRS TO about under noisy, dangerous machines and then go to STAIRS FIRST FLOOR 1 THE COURTYYARDARD school. What is a half-time school? What would you do if you only had to go to school in the morning? In Victorian schools the 3 R’s were considered to be the RECEPTION, 3 TICKETS, SHOP & CAFÉ 2 most important lessons - what were they? How did Victorians spend their leisure time? What games did children play? Victorian children were very inventive, MAIN ENTRANCE WEST HENDERSON’S WYND creating games with very little resources; e.g Blind M Man’s Buff and Hopscotch. FACILITIES GROUND FLOOR FIRST & SECOND FLOOR Tickets 1 CCourtyarourtyard 9 R & D / PolypropyleneFilm 17 First Floor Balcony AAVV Display & Viewing Platform Shop 2 Lodge Keeper 10 Theatre - 13 minutes 18 Second Floor Balcony Café 3 TheThe Works Office 11 Special Exhibition Gallery Viewing Platform TToilets oilets 4 From Harvest to Home 12 History Hub 19 Health & Housing Disabled TToiletsoilets 5 From Fibre to Fabric - Machine Hall 13 Red Box - Activity Pod 20 Women & Work Baby Changing 6 Dundee TTextilesextiles 14 Open Collections 21 Children & Leisure Lifts & Stairs 7 Dundee and the Indian Subcontinent 15 Boulton & Watt Steam Engine 22 Jute Barons Parking 8 Rope 16 Mechanics Workshop 23 Special Exhibition Gallery West Henderson’s Wynd, Dundee DD1 5BT www.verdantworks.com Book now To book your visit, or for additional information, contact our learning team: t: 01382 309078 e: [email protected] T EACHER ’ S G UIDE Get in touch We’d love to hear how you’ve used Verdant Works back in the classroom. e: [email protected] Twitter: @verdantworks Facebook: ScotlandsJuteMuseum Start workshops, talks and audio-visual presentations in this There is also a focus on Scottish engineers James Questions for discussion are included in the text, which can be used to engage 5. From Fibre to Fabric 8. Rope space - or it can provide a perfect spot for your Carmichael and James Watt. pupils before, during or after a visit to Verdant Works. Some questions are packed lunches! See the jute process come to life with our collection Rope making was an important part of Dundee's open-ended, to get pupils thinking imaginatively; the answers to others may be The Boulton & Watt beam engine is on kind loan from of working textile machines. Listen in to the sad and economy because of the vast amount of rope required 14 - 18. The High Mill Dundee City Council via a partnership with Leisure & found in the museum or from a guide. humorous tales of the spinners and weavers. Look at by the shipping industry. Culture Dundee who care for the engine on their behalf. the machines and note the names of the processes. The atmospheric 1833 High Mill is the oldest part of Listen out for words in the Dundee dialect to talk 9. R&D/Polypropylene Verdant Works and would have housed lots of textile Loan boxes and classroom resources 1 & 2. The Courtyard office today. Note that the ledger entries are in about later. The noise from the machines led to machinery. pounds, shillings and pence. What do we call the communication by hand. Where would the workers The decline of the jute industry, research and Please refer to the Verdant Works website for useful Soak up the atmosphere of the cobbled courtyard and currency which is in use today? eat their ‘piece’? What would they eat? Discuss diet development work and the rise of the high-tech There are two viewing platforms where you can information and activities. We have several loan boxes look out for the lodge-keeper. There is a weighing and working conditions. polypropylene industry feature in this bright, colourful appreciate the stunning mill architecture. When which you can borrow to help continue your learning machine set in the ground at the gates of the factory. The office is set to around 1900 which was at the end area. Watch the film show and explore the interactive looking around the old buildings of Dundee there are back in the classroom: Old Dundee, Victorian Life, Look how big it is. It had to be large enough for a of the Victorian era. Clothing for work was very 6. Dundee Textiles stations. Small groups are a definite advantage in this certain features, added either for aesthetic or practical Materials/Weaving and Mill Architecture. horse and cart to be weighed. What units of measure formal. Children dressed as adults. Note the Edison area to allow children as much hands-on experience reasons, which instantly identify the jute mills of this would have been used? The horse and cart would light bulbs - possible discussion on electricity. Discover the many uses of jute and linen, from the as possible. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages area. Often mills were built on iron frames instead of You can also access free resources at have been weighed full on entry to the factory and covered wagons of the Wild West to the sandbags of of polypropylene compared to jute. Think about load bearing walls, with stone floors and brick arches https://dundeehtlearning.wordpress.com/ including then weighed again on leaving. Why was this? Can you They mention Dundee High School; are there any the First World War trenches. Stress that Dundee jute sustainability and recycling. (limiting the amount of wood) to guard against fire. information to help you get the most from your visit spot the second weighing machine? other schools in Dundee from those times which still was used in practically every corner of the globe. Do Why was guarding against fire so important when to Verdant Works. exist today? you think you have any jute products in your house 10. Film theatre designing a mill in Dundee? Raw jute is highly Can you spot ‘The Bummer’ high on the factory roof? today? Where would these products come from? flammable and can spontaneously combust if left for What other product has taken the place of jute? Sit in comfort and watch ‘Juteopolis’ - a dramatic 13 This sounded the start and end of the working day and 4. From Harvest to Home long periods, especially when damp. NOW GO UPSTAIRS lunch time, like the school bell. minute film of the effect of the jute industry on the Watch and listen as you learn how jute was harvested 7. Dundee and the Indian Sub- city of Dundee and its people. Windows, both in the roofs and along the exterior Look down at the well in the courtyard. The ‘Scourin’ in India. Travel in the hold of a Dundee clipper ship. continent walls, were also common. Why would this have been The Social History Gallery Burn’ runs under the factory. Why was this a common Explore the interactives and discover why Dundee 11 & 23. Exhibition Galleries the case? To allow in as much light as possible to feature of factories of this period? How would the came to be the major centre of the world jute trade. Explore the trading links between Dundee and the improve working conditions and so fibres could be 19. Health & Housing machines have been powered? Indian sub-continent. Watch and listen to memories of A changing programme of historical or checked for quality. Why was Dundee so well prepared to work with jute? colonial life. People worked incredibly long hours in art exhibitions. See a typical Dundee ‘plettie’, learn about tenement Visit the lodge. Why was clocking in and clocking out Dundee had a long history of whaling and whale oil comparison to today. What do children think is the The real gem of the High Mill is the Boulton & Watt life and the health of the mill workers. Interactive essential for the workers? What happened if you were was used to soften the raw jute. Dundee also had a average length of a working week today? What 12 & 13. Glazed Alley & Red Box beam engine from 1801. Pupils can identify where displays enable you to weigh and measure yourself and late? The workers lost a quarter of an hours wage workforce experienced in spinning flax and making problems did the workers who travelled to India face? belts and pulleys would have run off a central line shaft look for the foods people ate.
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