I have a little addition/tangent to @billybragg's Essex essay on radio 3. I've been working on a project with V&A Dundee on dundonian history. One afternoon we walked around Lochee (where I grew up). 1/3

We discussed the old jute mills, that are now shops and flats, and the fact that lochee was the home to the Irish migrant workers. This interestingly lead to a still existing pocket of sectarianism in Dundee which is odd for the east coast of Scotland. 2/3

I even remember from my time in primary 7 (2014/15) going with my mates on Friday afternoons down lochee highstreet for our lunch and the insults that would be hurled between the kids of st Mary's primary which was less than a km from mine were quite shocking. 3/3

Definitely recommend listening to the essay here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6pr

this tangent came about from the section on the jute mill and the Irish/dundonian workers

Lochee is also one of those places that has fallen victim to the death of the highstreet and houses where there's no longer work.