Camperdown Works

Camperdown Works was a jute manufacturing complex in Dundee, Scotland, which covered around 30 acres and employing at its peak almost 6,000 workers. Developed from 1849 as a purpose-built and highly integrated industrial complex, it brought together spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing processes on a single site served by its own railway branch. For a period in the later nineteenth century it was the world's largest jute works in the world and was owned by Cox Brothers. The works formed part of Dundee’s emergence as the principal centre of mechanised jute manufacture within the British Empire, processing raw fibre imported largely from Bengal and exporting finished goods to international markets.