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Dundee's Exchange Coffee Room, with
its distinctive Doric column facade, still stands in
Shore Terrace in the heart of the city - its upper storey
Reading Room here overlooking a scene of bustling European
trade.
But the once thriving harbour and the
closes and tenements of the city's medieval Greenmarket
are its companions no more. By the C20 changes in the
economic enviroment had conspired to allow the city
to turn inwards upon itself, and to forget its confident,
cosmopolitan past. Today the Exchange Coffee Room is
hidden away - stranded on a shoreline of reclaimed land
at the foot of the Tay Road Bridge, and boxed in by
the shadow of modern tower block. The Caird Hall (itself
an imposter on the old Greenmarket lands) is its nearest
cultural companion, and seeming guardian angel.
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