Riverside, Wormit
Riverside is the first house on Bay Road on the right. This lovely view dates from 1892, three years after the house was built in 1889. The house was built for William Cowley, owner of a jute business in Dundee. The house was occupied by the Cowley family until the 1960s. The only other property to be seen here is the watertank/reservoir building on the hill, built in 1879 to receive the new water supply from Dundee via the first rail bridge. Just two years after this painting was executed, the OS map of 1894 shows the hillside here covered with houses. Until Wormit station opened in 1889 there had been very little development in Wormit, but the coming of the railway changed that completely.
Note the salmon net stakes on the shore below the house, and the ribs of a wrecked boat in the water. Also prominent is the flagpole, the base of which was still in position in 2022.
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