Dundee Monopoly street Traditional Cache
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South Tay Street: Quality Street from days gone by. With Tay Square, a lovely place at the heart of Dundee's cultural quarter.
In the latter part of the 18th century, Dundee’s fortunes were beginning to improve and town centre streets such as Reform Street and Union Street had been created. The town was spreading outwards and this terrace of good quality houses at South Tay Street was built at the start of the next century.
It is in the neo-classical Georgian style and so there are typical features such as the decorative rectangular or arched fanlights and the Ionic columns or pilasters flanking the entrance doorways.
The houses had three main floors and a basement and some houses also had attic rooms. There was no space for gardens, only a yard at the rear with various outbuildings.
Some of the houses were designed by an architect named David Neave and he lived there for some years. The other houses were occupied by surgeons, lawyers, a ship captain, vintners, accountants, dentists, bankers and there was an English Seminary for Young Ladies.
Today, the area contains the university, the Repertory Theatre the Contemporary Art centre and a multitude of cafes, and restaurants and the houses in the terrace have been divided into flats and offices. There are still architects, lawyers and accountants but there are now graphic designers, letting agents and restaurants and even a language school offering tuition in numerous modern languages. (thx to Bill W. for the description!)
The street now knows worldwide fame thanks to its inclusion on the Dundee Monopoly board!
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