Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, of a dreich Spring road trip drive through the city of Dundee, to visit Invergowrie, Perthshire. Dreich is a Scots word for dull and cloudy weather. Invergowrie village is located on the north west bank of the Firth of Tay to the west of Dundee. The village was formerly part of the estate of Mylnefield. The quarry at Invergowrie supplied important sites around the UK, stone being included in the base of Nelson's column and St Katherine's Docks in London, England. The quarry workers hit a spring at the beginning of the 20th century and the quarry filled with water. Said to have been a royal point of embarkation, at which King Alexander I planned to build a palace, Invergowrie was gifted to the monks of Scone in the Middle Ages. Its church, now known as Dargie Church, was allegedly founded by St. Bonifacius in the 8th Century and in the ancient churchyard are two large stones known as the Yowes of Gowrie. Invergowrie toll house stands nearby on the south side of the former Perth to Dundee turnpike road.
The Eden Project wants the site of a former Dundee gasworks to be the location for its first attraction in Scotland. It said the attraction would include walled gardens and draw on the history of Dundee's Nine Incorporated Trades.
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