James Collie – Plans of Dundee 1851

The Burgh of Dundee, before the Ordnance Survey started their large scale surveys, contracted a private surveyor, James Collie, to draw up plans of the town showing contours and principal drains. They are not on a north/south grid, as OS plans are, but on a skew, possibly to fit as much as possible into the minimum number of sheets. The sheets have been heavily used by engineers and architects, with the result that they are worn, have annotations, and, unfortunately in the case of the town centre, a large ink stain.

This temporary location grid has been drawn onto a later 1874 street plan, and so details on the grid guide, such as Baxter Park on sheet 64NE, have still to be built in 1851.

(These pages are work in progress)
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