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Sculpture commemorating Mary Slessor
the bush with its myriad voices calls to you
(a fascimile of Mary Slessor's own handwriting)
Plaque to Janet Keiller
Janet Keiller
Mrs Marmalade
1737-1813
This is no. 24 in the Dundee Women's Trail.
Plaque at Waverley Station War Memorial for Railway Men and Women in WWII
IN MEMORY OF ALL
RAILWAY MEN AND WOMEN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE 1939-45 CONFLICT
"LEST WE FORGET"
THIS MEMORIAL WAS PLACED HERE
BY RAILTRACK AND THE RAILWAY MISSION
Symers Street, Dundee
Helen Halyburton Symers
Helen Symers was born into a noted Dundee family. She was a member of St Paul’s United Free Church. Although a quiet woman, she took a full part in Dundee's charitable institutions, being at various times president of Dundee Ladies’ Union, treasurer of the Female Society for Visiting & Relieving Aged Females in Distress and a member of both the Industrial Schools Society and the Home for Reformation of Females.
She donated £10,000 to start the Fund for Indigent Females and also made donations to the Convalescent Home, Royal Victoria Hospital and the Salvation Army Rescue Home.
Kirsty Semple Way
Kirsty Semple
Born in Edinburgh in 1924, Kirsty Semple graduated in medicine. She ran a G.P. practice in Dundee from 1951-1981. She married Ian S. Gibson in 1958 and they had two sons. A visit to Canada inspired her to set up Tayside Breast Care and Mastectomy Group in 1978. She also helped set up Tayside Council on Addictions. She was an elder and acting beadle at the Steeple Church and ran a tea room for the homeless. Kirsty Semple died on 9 May 1995.
Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain
Victoria Jubilee
1837-1897