View of New Buildings, New Lanark.
LA 225
Description View of New Buildings, New Lanark.
Date 10/1961
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number LA 225
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 2214482
Scope and Content Annotated and stamped on the reverse of the mounted print: 'Scottish National Buildings Record. Shire: Lanarkshire, Place: New Lanark. Building: New Lanark Mills. Photographer: T. Scott. Date: Oct '61'. New Buildings workers' housing at New Lanark, Lanarkshire New Lanark was founded in 1785 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright. It passed to Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, in 1799. Owen developed the village into a model community, aiming to make it both profitable and humane. Each apartment in the block had one to four rooms including a kitchen. Decent housing for the workers was an important part of the Owen's humanitarian plan for his model industrial village. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference MW/BR/NEW/5
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