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Following the dissolution of her second marriage, Della Griffin, married unsuccessfully one last time (Jimmy Walker whose name she refused to take feeling that it was not worth the time) and resumed her career, which lasted into the 21st century.
After opening at Harlem’s Blue Book club in 1973, Della Griffin performed there for the next 14 years, until 1987 when she was seriously injured after being hit by a car in Mt. Vernon, NY. In addition, starting in the 1980s, Della resumed working with Etta Jones and joined with Irene Reid.

Their efforts led to two albums – “I’ll Get By” and “Travlin’ Light,” both produced by Houston Person (b.1934) and Muse Records. When Muse Records folded, Della Griffin “followed many of” its performers “to [the] newly-formed HighNote-Savant” label where Person produced “The Very Thought of You” which came out in 1998. Shortly afterwards, due to her high level of achievement, Della “Griffin was invited to Finland to appear at one of that country’s major jazz festivals.”[1]
Following her recovery, Della Griffin along with Frances Kelly and Shirley “Bunny” Foy appeared on “Dan Romanello’s Rhythm & Blues Group Harmony Review” on Fordham University’s WFUV-FM show in New York in 1994 after being “rediscovered by group harmony enthusiast Louie Silvani.

“[2] After taking inquiries about the Enchanters and Dell-Tones, Della Griffin put another “Dell-Tones” group together, consisting of Frances Kelly, Annette St. John and Gwen Michael, the latter two new members. They then made numerous appearances including at “The Heroines of R&B” concert in October 1995, which also included the famed Chantels, The Jewels and Vikki Burgess, who just missed being selected to replace Sherry Gary of the Dell-Tones forty years earlier, among others.
In addition to her performances for the new Dell-Tones and recording acts for Muse Records and HighNote-Savant, Della Griffin took part in many solo acts in clubs across the tri-state region during the 1990s.

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Della Griffin and “her All-Stars” in Croton Falls and Yonkers, NY in May and June 1992, respectively; a solo performance at Blue Note Jazz Club and Restaurant at 131 West 3rd Street in New York City in April 1991, solo New Year’s Eve performances at DeFemio’s Restaurant in Yonkers, NY in December 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1997, a December 1994 performance “A Very Merry Holiday Jazz Party” with Etta Jones and Houston Person at the Schoolhouse in Croton Falls, a show titled “Standards & Blues by Della Griffin” in Scarsdale, NY in June 1998, and a performance at the White Plains Public Library in White Plains, NY in March 1999, among others.

She was also a frequent performer at Scottie’s club in Yonkers, NY, a member of the Jimmy Hill Quartet (with jazz musicians Jimmy Hill (1928-2004), Joe Puma (1927-2000), and Etta Jones) that “frequented jazz haunts through the [New York metro] region,”[3] a member of Fred Smith’s “Harlem Renaissance Swing Band (performing at Hartford, CT’s Bushnell Park in July 1999), and a drummer for The Melba Joyce Group in a 1998 Nicki Mathis “The Many Colors of a Woman”[4] concert also in Hartford, CT, as well as a participant in benefit concerts for musicians in need.

She also performed in Hartford CT’s Bushnell Park in July 1995 and 1996 as “one of the most valuable showstoppers…” singing “‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business” and “All of Me,”[5] and at Rich Forum in Stamford, CT in February 1998. During the July 1995 concert, it was written, “Singer Della Griffin, decked out in shades, a hot pink sweat suit and matching hat, almost stole the show when she scurried to the front of the stage and began singing ‘All of Me’ in a wonderfully grainy, lived-in kind of voice…”[6]
Della Griffin continued her music career into the 21st century making appearances in New York City, Westchester County, and Newark, NJ, one of which included a 3 hour-long performance at the Renaissance Jazz Caf้ on 195 Mulberry Street in May 2003, among others.

Even though Della Griffin never had children of her own and had a demanding career, she found time to be a philanthropist. Despite her fame and 50+-year career, she took in more than 40 foster children, raising many from infancy. As a result she was known as “Aunt Della” and described as having a voice ‘gorgeous enough to evoke Billie Holiday, (a jazz legend and close friend) and [a] heart big enough to take in more than a dozen foster children.”[7]
When her Mt. Vernon, NY house suffered severe fire damage from a pre-Christmas 2004 fire that had been started by a 6-year-older foster child who accidentally knocked over a candle, a benefit concert featuring Irene Reid and Houston Person, among others, was held by the Jazz Foundation to cover the $15,000 rebuilding costs.

Della and some of her foster children ultimately returned to the rebuilt house just before the summer of 2005.
During her remarkable pioneering career, Della Griffin has performed in venues all around the world, including some of the most famous jazz clubs. She had also created two female groups – the Enchanters and the Dell-Tones, sang for William “Count” Basie’s band as well as the Modells, and shared the stage with many legends – “a who’s who of jazz and blues singers, including Etta Jones”[8] and Gloria Coleman, a Soul singer, among others.

Having been a “singer you can count on for moving performances…” with a “voice [that] fills the songs she sings, weaving their way into your heart…”[9] in the class of Billie Holiday (for a while Holiday’s husband stopped by every week after Billie’s passing to hear Griffin’s rendition of “Some Other Spring” because she reminded him of his deceased wife) and Etta Jones, Della Griffin is a jazz legend in her own right, mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Jazz for having taken “a daring step forward [when the Enchanters and Dell-Tones], pioneering female ensembles of vocal group music… decided to compete on a circuit usually reserved for men.

” When others chose to marry and tend to families and despite the adversities and setbacks she faced, Della Griffin’s heart remained with music. In her words, “Music brings me great joy. It always makes me smile.”[10]
Aside from music, Della Griffin also had other passions. She loved sewing and crochet since she was a child and she enjoyed dining at Sizzler’s restaurant (now defunct) at Cross County Center in Yonkers, NY and supermarket shopping, especially for different kinds of foods, soda, and candy.

At the same time her favorite colors are purple and black, the latter, which she adopted during her later years.
At the same time, despite her success and fame, as well as the difficult trials she faced, Della Griffin’s faith has remained strong. As a result she serves as an inspirational Christian role-model – clothing, feeding, sheltering, and caring for children in need, demonstrated through the years by all the foster children she cared for and loved as if they were her own blood. Accordingly because of Della’s love for God, one of her favorite pastimes when she was able and fit to, was taking her foster children on frequent visits to Lourdes of America at St.

Lucy’s Church in the Bronx, NY to enrich the family’s spirituality and receive blessings from the grotto’s holy water “which is said to have miraculous healing powers.”[11]
A tribute to honor Della Griffin and her contributions to R&B and jazz was recently held by the Eleanor Scott Center at the Creole club in New York City on June 21, 2006 in recognition of the lasting and indelible imprint she has left on the jazz world. This came five years after a “Summer Breeze” concert on the steps of Mt.

Vernon, NY City Hall in which Della Griffin was awarded a plaque by the City’s mayor, Ernest Davis in “recognition and gratitude” of her 30+ years of contributions to music and Mt. Vernon. Afterwards she (with a big smile) and Etta Jones performed a duet, singing “East of the sun and west of the moon, we’re going to build a dream house of love” followed by “a standing ovation, even from their fellow musicians.”[12] Ironically it was one of Etta Jones’ last performances before she succumbed to cancer less than three months later.

Furthermore in recognition of Della Griffin’s achievements, the Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger wrote when discussing an upcoming jazz concert in Ivy Hill, NJ, in which Dave Braham and his jazz group, the Latin Jazz Quartet was the key attraction – “Actually, Braham is a master organist, having backed singers like Irene Reid, Arthur Prysock (b. 1929) and Della Griffin.” [13] At the same time, the Fairfield (CT) Citizen News wrote when talking about Antoinette Montague, a local singer who sang jazz and R&B for a while and who was celebrating the life of jazz great Louis Armstrong in a play – “She has been focusing on pursuing her craft, aiming for excellence, by meeting long-time performers such as Etta Jones and Della Griffin… and making contacts with musicians.

“[14] In addition, the Hartford (CT) Courant when writing about Fred Smith, a traveling “workaholic” jazz trumpeter stated, “Aside from Smith’s swing savvy, his band’s key assets are saxophonist David ‘Bubba’ Smith, a fat-toned tenor saxophonist, and Della Griffin, a vocalist… Petite and grandmotherly looking, Griffin is graced with an evocative, soul-wrenching voice that can all but channel the long departed spirit of Billie Holiday. Her grainy, lived-in sound is delightful. Especially when she plunges into a Holiday signature song like ‘Fine and Mellow,’ with its wry, melancholic lyrics…”[15] and “The guitarist also has played on other forthcoming albums led by McDuff, Hampton, Della Griffin and Larry O’Neill”[16] when discussing Randy Johnston, a jazz and blues artist.

Today Della Griffin resides in New Rochelle, NY. She is still loved as much as ever and visited daily by one foster child or another. Most importantly her voice still sings lifting and enriching lives.
Discography:
งToday is Your Birthday/How Could You. January 1952. The Enchanters. Jubilee Records. (5072)

งI’ve Lost/Housewife Blues. April 1952. The Enchanters. Jubilee Records. (5080)

งYours Alone/My Heart’s On Fire. July 1953. The Dell-Tones. Brunswick Records. (84015)

, <a href="http://www.

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งBaby Say You Love Me/Don’t Be Too Long. July 1955. The Dell-Tones. Baton Records. (212)

งMy Special Love/Believe It. March 1956. The Dell-Tones. Baton Records. (223)

งVoices Of Love/I’m So Lonely. June 1957. The Kings And Queens (combined Dell-Tones and Orioles). Everlast Records. (5003)

งDuke Ellington Collection, 1927-1988, #301

งSubseries 3F: Other Music Company Records, 1938-1965 (boxes 106-111) Box 107.

Expense Records. The Enchanters 1956-1958.

งDella Griffin Sings. (Vinyl LP featuring I’ll Be Seeing You, Lover Man, Don’t Explain, Standing There, But Beautiful, You’ve Changed, Travelin’ Light, and Gloomy Sunday) Della Griffin. Dobre Records. (1009)

งTravelin’ Light. (CD featuring Smile, Travelin’ Light, Out of Nowhere, Some Other Spring, The Second Time Around, Easy Living, Trouble In Mind, Trust In Me, Blue Gardenia). June 1992. Della Griffin. Muse Records. (5496)

งI’ll Get By.

(CD featuring If You Were The Only Boy In The World, But Beautiful, I’m Getting’ Sentimental Over You, Fools Rush In, You and Me Against The World, I’ll Get By (As Long As I Have You), Two Different Worlds, and East of the Sun). July 1996. Della Griffin. Muse Records (B000008REL).

งThe Very Thought of You. (CD featuring My Melancholy Baby, The Very Thought of You, All of Me, Misty, This Bitter Earth, Yesterdays, It Could Happen To You, You Go To My Head, and Sunday). September 1998.

Della Griffin. Savant Records. (1180011)

Unreleased:

งYou Know I’m Not In Love With You. Recorded November 1951. The Enchanters. Jubilee Records.

งBoogie Woogie Daddy. The Enchanters. Jubilee Records.

งWhy Make A Fool Out Of Me. The Dell-Tones. Brunswick Records.

งAfter All I’ve Been To You. The Dell-Tones. Brunswick Records.

Also Appears On:

งDarling Please Save Your Love For Me. March 1994. Dakota Staton. Muse Records. (5462). Featured on tracks 2 and 7 – “You’ve Changed,” and “East of the Sun.

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งJazz Ballads With a Blue Feeling. February 2003. HighNote. (B00008AY5I). Featured on track 7 – “This Bitter Earth.”

งJazz for a Christmas Present. July 2003. Savoy Jazz. (B0000AGWKQ). Featured on Vol. 2 track 2 – “Jingle Bells.”

งJazz in an R&B Groove. March 2004. HighNote. (B0001I2C7A). Featured on track 6 – “This Bitter Earth.”

งJazz That’s Soulfully Blue. February 2005. HighNote. (B0007N19J6). Featured on track 9 – “Sunday.”

งJazz for the Wee Small Hours.

April 2006. HighNote. (B000F1HGAG). Featured on track 6 – “You Go To My Head.”
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[1] Della Griffin. Musicmatchฎ, Inc. 2004. 3 August 2006. http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/artist.cgi?ARTISTID=886881&TMPL=LONG
[2] John Clemente. Girl Groups. (Krause Publications. Iola, WI., USA. 2000) 89.
[3] Joseph Ax. Jimmy Hill dies at 76; was well-known jazz musician. The Journal News. Gannett Co., Inc. 15 June 2004. 3B.
[4] Owen McNally. Local Jazz Artist Keeps Celebrating Many Talents of Women.

The Hartford Courant. 3 September 1998. 8.
[5] Owen McNally. Harlem Legends Put Life In Park. The Hartford Courant. 23 July 1996. A4.
[6] Owen McNally. Veterans Revive Harlem Jazz And Blues. The Hartford Courant. 11 July 1995. A4.
[7] A Benefit for Della Griffin. all about Jazz.com. 14 January 2005. 3 August 2006. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news_print.php?id=5026
[8] A Benefit for Della Griffin. all about Jazz.com. 14 January 2005. 3 August 2006. http://www.allaboutjazz.

com/php/news_print.php?id=5026
[9] Ismael Rangel. Della Griffin. 3 August 2006. http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1980/Griffith.html
[10] A Benefit for Della Griffin. all about Jazz.com. 14 January 2005. 3 August 2006. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news_print.php?id=5026
[11] Historic Attractions: Lourdes of America. i love the bronx.com. 14 August 2006. http://www.ilovethebronx.com/thingstodo.cfm?prmCategoryIDs=17
[12] Greg Clary. Jazz lovers enjoy the Summer Breeze.

The Journal News. Gannett Co., Inc. 24 July 2001. 3K.
[13] Barbara Kukla. Feast of music and food comes to Ivy Hill – Jazz musician is star attraction. Star-Ledger, The (Newark, NJ). 5 August 1999. 1.
[14] Local Singer Celebrates the Life of Louis Armstrong in Musical Play. Fairfield Citizen News. 17 June 2005. Living section.
[15] Owen McNally. Traveling Trumpeter Brings Harlem Jazz to Bushnell Park. The Hartford Courant. 14 July 2000. D3.
[16] Owen McNally. Randy Johnston brings jazz-blues mix to 880 with DePalma trio.

The Hartford Courant. 28 May 1992. 5.
Additional Sources:
Newark This Week: Coming Events. Star-Ledger, The (Newark, NJ). 15 May 2003. 2.
Della Griffin – Lead singer of the Dell-Tones 1955-56. liveDaily. 3 August 2006. http://www.livedaily.com/artists/bio/195412.html
Tribute for Della Griffin. all about Jazz.com. 2006. 3 August 2006. http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=37&day=2006-6-21&c=1
W5: This Week – Who What When Where Why. The Hartford Courant. 4 July 1999.

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The mortgage industry has faced up to some pretty demanding challenges over the last few years and only now does it appear to be settling down to something like normality.

So as the market moves onwards and upwards,I think there is a lot the lending industry can gain by taking a look at marketing techniques which have been adopted by other industries.

Take another financial market, credit cards, as an example. It shares many similar characteristics with the mortgage market: it’s a financial service, highly competitive, and a saturated market in which the challenge is to win market share from competitors because there is little room for genuine growth.

Sound familiar?

The credit card market has employed some very sophisticated and aggressive marketing tactics to win new business – you may well have been on the receiving end of them. They have analysed and segmented their customer base in great detail; they know precisely, pioneer audio receiver, the profile of people they would like to own their credit cards. The marketing tactics being used by the card companies are equally as sophisticated.

Interest-free balance transfers and 0 per cent interest for six months is an enticing proposition, as are loyalty points for frequent users and long-lasting customers.

Could these techniques be used in the mortgage industry – quite possibly? Churning has been, and continues to be, a problem for lenders and attracting and retaining customers is a key issue the industry has to face up to. Perhaps rewarding loyalty is one issue we need to address with more vigour than we have done previously?

One market where customer loyalty is taken very seriously is the grocery sector – supermarkets such as Tesco have pioneered many of the marketing techniques which are now taken for granted.

The whole concept of customer loyalty cards and the payment of bonus points was first introduced by Tesco and supermarkets are now analysing customer transaction data to look at how they can tailor marketing campaigns for the future.

It stands to reason that if a customer is buying nappies, Rice Crispies and cherry-flavoured lemonade on a regular basis, they are probably proud parents of a young family. Sending them special offers on children’s clothes and promoting computers for schools is highly likely to reach a receptive audience.

Lenders know precisely what sort of houses their borrowers live in, how much they earn and what their payment record is like, all of which is valuable marketing information. But how effectively do we use this data to help target future marketing campaigns? Have we identified the first-time buyers of five years ago as the potential family house buyers of tomorrow? I’m sure there are isolated examples of this happening but most marketing is reasonably unsophisticated product promotion on TV, in the press and at point of sale.

Interestingly, the big supermarkets such as Tesco are now entering the mortgage market. It will be interesting to keep a watchful eye on them and to note the marketing techniques they deploy in order to build market share. With the power of a brand such as Tesco to play with, it must be good fun being the head of mortgage marketing and plotting a few new campaigns.

Low excitement levels
One of the problems all mortgage marketers face is that, for the average person, purchasing a mortgage is not as exciting as say buying a new car.

It’s a necessity and an intangible one to boot. How do you win over the hearts and minds of a target market which would rather clean the car than go and talk to someone about getting a mortgage?

Perhaps we should look to the world of politics for a few clues? Historically, most people have displayed a similar lack of interest in politics as they do in mortgages and politicians know only too well that they need to engage their audience as they enter an election period. Well, we’ve just seen the mother of all elections in America, where Bush and Kerry managed to generate the highest turnout of voters in American history.

They may have split the country down the middle, but they also managed to make many millions of people sit up and contemplate issues which were hitherto deemed to be boring and irrelevant.

I’m not suggesting that we all start holding glitzy showpiece rallies but we do need to consider how we can get borrowers to take financial matters more seriously and consider them as a priority which should rank above playing the lottery. I don’t have the magic solution but I do think there are lessons to be learnt by looking at the ways in which others have successfully addressed ‘dry’ subjects.

There is a great danger in thinking that all the answers to the marketing challenges facing the mortgage market will come from within the market itself. I have no doubt that those who are willing to study the successes of other market sectors will reap rich rewards.
Anthony Harrison owns http://www.capitalmortgagesolutions.co.uk, a specialist mortgage broker which provides mortgages and mortgage advice to clients suffering from credit problems.

The BMW Malaysia Sdn Bhd is confident of having another good year, selling more cars than it did in 2006. “We have started well in 2007 with sales growing 37 percent quarter on quarter to hit 535 units in the first quarter,” said the managing director Wolfgang Schlimme. “We have been growing for the last four years. Overall sales growth since 2003, when we sold 2,176 vehicles, was about 60 percent,” added Schlimme.

Year 2006 was the group’s best year ever. The company sold a total of 3,472 vehicles.

“We are going in the right direction and setting our priorities in terms of model line-up, availability and pricing. These are the reasons we are different from others. This has led us to continue growing in the past few years against the trend in the auto industry,” noted Schlimme.

This year, BMW has launched a bunch of new models – the 325i Sports, 3 Series Coupe, Z4 M Coupe, X3 and the new MINI. Schlimme said that the pace would continue as the group strongly believed customers should have access to the very latest and best of BMW models as soon as right-hand drive versions became available.

He also noted that the new X5 will be launched soon.

The BMW 3 Series is an entry-level luxury car which has started production since May 1975. It was the successor to the 2002 coupe, retaining much of that car’s styling while adding a more powerful 2.0 L 110 horsepower engine and other performance enhancements. The model, equipped with cream-of-the-crop BMW auto parts, is the, pioneer audio receiver, automaker’s best selling automobile and it is the one accounting for about 40 percent of all automobiles sold in 2005.

Schlimme pointed out that BMW was also a pioneer in new technology, having launched an in-built global positioning system and night vision system for its cars. “A key decisive factor for our success here is our dealer network. At the end of the day, it is not our team in Cyberjaya but our service advisers, sales representatives and management of BMW dealers that provide first impressions and create long-lasting customer relationships for us. The biggest sales success for BMW is contributed by our dealers,” he said.

At present, the automaker has 13 dealerships in the country, with another outlet to be opened by year-end in Damansara in the Klang Valley. “Our dealer network is one of our priorities in the day-to-day business. Our dealers are consistently upgrading their existing facilities, capacities and competence for customer convenience,” Schlimme said.

To support its dealers, the German automaker is providing architectural consulting, workshop equipment consulting, communications and marketing as well as the availability of demo cars.

“We are in the background, supporting and making the dealers’ sales and after sales capabilities as strong, competent and credible as possible. This is how it should be,” Schlimme stressed.

Over the years, the German automaker along with its partners had invested over RM250mil in the country. The aftermath of the said partnership is the three most essential regional facilities in the country. These facilities play an essential role in realizing the company’s goals for the region.

“We are enlarging our training offerings at the centre, which services 14 markets.

Our group data centre provides information technology structure support to BMW organizations globally. It also serves the group’s worldwide network for specific competences, for example, in the global plant logistics system,” Schlimme said.

The BMW group will also start providing its customers a one-stop sales and financing resource, with the completion of its purchase of SimeLease (M) Sdn Bhd and its subsidiary, SimeCredit (M) Sdn Bhd. The two companies, which will be called BMW Lease (M) Sdn Bhd and BMW Credit (M) Sdn Bhd, will allow the company to promote innovative finance solutions to customers via the BMW global network.

As you approach the Tay Road Bridge whether by car or by train through the Tay Rail Bridge you begin to understand why they call the river “Silvery Tay”. The city is situated on the east coast of Scotland on the north bank of the firth of Tay.

Dundee is Scotland’s fourth largest city and one of the most beautiful! Driving across the bridge you can clearly see the Law Hill. The city is built around this extinct volcano. You can drive right up to the top of the hill and from this vantage point you can see the whole of Dundee!

Dundee is Scotland’s sunniest city (it faces south) with over 1400 hours of sunshine every year.

Its title “City of Discovery” comes from the HM Frigate Unicorn, the oldest surviving ship in the UK.

Dundee is known for its “3 Js” – Jute, Jam & Journalism. Although the Jute & Jam industry is no longer predominant in Dundee, you can still see the towers associated with the industry. Verdant Works is ideal for tourists wishing to learn about Dundee’s Jute Industry.

Keillers of Dundee pioneered the manufacture of marmalade here. They bought a shipload of oranges which they were unable to sell.

Janet Keiller specialized in selling jam and using her knowledge invented marmalade.

Although Jute and Jam are no longer made in Dundee, the journalism sector still thrives. The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business. In 1884, David Couper Thomson took over the publishing business, and established it as DC Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and now produces more than 200 million comics, books and magazines every year.

Dundee is also a university town with a student population averaging about 32,000.

Due to the high numbers of students, Dundee has a lively pub and club scene. The 2 most popular night clubs are Fat Sams & London Night Club.

A recent quality of life survey ranked Dundee near the top due to its clean air, low pollution levels, riverside location and high sunshine hours.

Shopping in Dundee has now taken off with 2 major shopping centres (Overgate & Wellgate) under pinning the west and east of the city centre. The number of out of town shopping centres in Dundee means that the city attracts shoppers from all the small towns nearby.

The town is a fantastic holiday location with Broughty Ferry having one of the cleanest beaches in the UK.

The city is an ideal starting point for touring the best of Scotland with almost all major attractions less then 100 miles away. Kenmore, Loch Earn, Loch Ness and Ben Nevis are beautiful destinations in their own right. The three other major cities, Edinburgh, Aberdeen & Glasgow are all approximately an hours drive.

St Andrews (the home of golf) & Carnoustie both have championship golf courses and are only 20 minutes drive from the city.

Dundee has three country parks all within 3 miles of the city. Camperdown Park, Monikie Park & Crombie Park are all beautiful and unique in their own ways.

Dundee is renowned for its Dundee Repertory Theatre (the rep) and Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre (DCA).

The main Hotels in Dundee are the Hilton Hotel, Apex City Quay, Swallow Hotel & Queens. There are many other smaller hotels and recently many travel lodges/inns have opened to provide room only rates for families on a small budget.

Glamis Castle – known to be haunted due to an ancient curse is a fairy tale castle which will exceed all your expectations.

The town of Glamis also houses the Angus Folk Museum. Visit one of Scotland’s finest museums and learn about Scotland’s history.

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The British Golf Museum is in St Andrews, the home of golf! Find out about the history of the game and indulge in some interactive highly visual displays.

The best hotel in St Andrews is the MacDonald Russacks Hotel. It was voted one of the Top Golfing Hotels in the world.

St Andrews Castle consists of the ruins of the castle built around the 13th century. Here you can explore the secret dungeons and admire the views.

St Andrews Cathedral & St Rule’s Tower are the remains of the largest cathedral in Scotland.