- Logie, Dundee
"logan" or "lagan", meaning a hollow.
Logie Housing Estate
The main feature of the area is the Logie housing estate, built between 1919 and 1920 and designed by James Thompson. The estate was the first
public housing estate built in Scotland after theFirst World War . scheme, supplied by a boilerhouse that also provided a public wash-house for the surrounding area. Poor insulation of the supply pipes meant that the snow on the pavements melted.The housing consists mostly of three-room (living room and two bedrooms, plus kitchen and bathroom) and two-room (living room and one bedroom, kitchen and bathroom) in blocks of four flats, two upper and two lower, each with its own front door of the type described in England as a "
maisonette ". As well as communal drying greens, the houses each have a smallallotment . The district heating scheme was closed in the late 1970s and individualcentral heating installed in each house.The estate is divided by a wide tree-lined dual carriageway, Logie Avenue, which was equipped with a view-point at its upper end next to Victoria Park.
Logie School and Logie Poorhouse
Adjacent to the housing estate, on the corner of Blackness Road and Glenagnes Road, stood Logie
secondary school , laterHarris Academy Annexe, designed by C.G. Soutar and opened in 1928. This stood on the site of the Logiepoorhouse of Liff & Benvie Parish, which was itself opened in April 1864. The school was destroyed by fire in 2001.Political representation
The Dundee city councillor for Logie was the SNP's James Barrie until the wards were re-drawn in 2007.
With the new Single Transferable Vote system in place, Jim Barrie (SNP), Donald Hay (Conservative), Richard McCready (Labour), and Fraser McPherson (Liberal Democrat) all represent the Logie area as part of the new West End ward.
References
Dundee, An Illustrated Architectural Guide, A McKean & D. Walker,
RIAS 1993 ISBN 1-873190-09-3
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
