Curious corners
in Dundee.

Comic bronzes and Balgay Hill's dome.

Dundee wears its sense of humour in bronze. The city printed the Dandy and the Beano, and on the High Street a giant cowboy strides along with his dog while a tomboy takes aim with her catapult. Outside the art gallery, a spiky-haired boy sits on a wall with his pea shooter trained on Robert Burns, his upturned bucket beside him for a photograph. On the Nethergate, five bronze penguins line a church wall, dressed up for graduations and Christmas. Up on Balgay Hill, a white dome opened in 1935 as Britain's first purpose-built public observatory. Save the observatory for a clear evening in the dark months.