This tower, a B-listed building, designed in the style of a doocot, was built in 1922 as the pump house for the Stirling Avenue District heating system, which served around 400 homes. The water for it came from the covered reservoir on Byron Street (directly opposite the Pillbox on the Law). The reservoir, built in 1874, originally distributed water to Lochee and western Dundee. The boiler house and chimney was in Wishart Street, with the chimney being demolished in the mid 1970s.
The architect was David William Baxter (1874 – 1957) a great great grandson of George Baxter, one of the Baxter Brothers, linen manufacturers, (or “Jute Barons,” being the local term given to mill owners) who owned the Dens Works.
David Baxter completed his school education at the newly opened Morgan Academy, right opposite Baxter Park, which his relatives Sir David Baxter, and his sisters, donated £50,000 for its construction in 1859.
This cache is a letterbox hybrid. It contains a stamper. It is not a swap so please leave it in the cache. Letterboxes are geocaches that hold a rubber stamp and sometimes an ink pad.
Letterboxers carry their own personal stamp, journal/logbook and inkpad. Upon finding a letterbox, they stamp the letterbox’s stamp into their personal journal.
They then stamp their image into the letterbox’s journal using their personal stamp, and make an entry. The stamper in this cache is a pen/stamper with green duct tape round it. Please leave it in the cache.