Originally Posted by
cptdodger
I quite agree, it is interesting to found out how we, (Caithness and Sutherland) got to this point. Clearly, the Clearances played a part in that. In my case, I love Dundee's history as I was brought up in Broughty Ferry. When I was growing up we had the three J's, Jute Jam (Keillers) and Journalism (DC Thomson), we only have the Journalism left. Dundee had to reinvent itself when we lost the Jute industry and in 2014 Dundee was recognised by the United Nations as the UK's first UNESCO City of Design for its diverse contributions to fields including medical research, comics and video games. Probably Grand Theft Auto being the most famous game to come out of Dundee ! As of today, the waterfront has been decimated and is being rebuilt to contain the first Victoria and Albert Museum outside London.
Dundee and Broughty Ferry have both had their tragedies, Dundee, The Tay Bridge Disaster, where a train was going over the bridge when it collapsed at the cost of between 60 - 75 lives. And we lost our Lifeboat "The Mona" with all hands, eight brave men including a father and son. That was just before I was born on the 8th of December 1959. At that time Broughty Ferry was still a small village like place where everybody knew everybody else. I know every single family that was involved.
Although that is probably only interesting to me ! The point I am trying to make is, history (I believe) shapes who we are. Moving from a City to here, it does concern me what the children growing up here now, are going to do career wise. Once Dounreay goes, and it will, what opportunities will they be left with? The sheer amount of people that Dounreay employs keeps Thurso going, once that goes, once again, people will be forced to move South to find opportunities there.