View from ENE showing part of ESE front of Scotstoun Mills with part of Regent Mills on left and part of Bishop Mills in background

Description View from ENE showing part of ESE front of Scotstoun Mills with part of Regent Mills on left and part of Bishop Mills in background

Date 6/5/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 718246

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Regent Flour Mills, Bunhouse Road, Scotstoun Mills, Scotstoun Mill Road, and Bishop Mills, No 206 Old Dumbarton Road, Glasgow The river Kelvin was a vital source of water power for Glasgow before the steam engine was invented, and in the mile or so before it reached the Clyde it powered about half a dozen grain mills. Industrial inertia resulted in three of these sites continuing in use into the second half of the 20th century. This shows parts of all three, with the edge of Regent Flour Mills on the left (!887-90), Bishop Mills (1839, c1853) in the middle, and part of Scotstoun Mills (this part 1898) on the right. The bridge carried the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway over the waterfall which supplied power to Bishop Mills. All the buildings in this view have now been demolished, apart from the taller block of Bishop Mills, which has been converted into flats. Scotstoun Mills is now Glasgow's only flour mill, and the site of Regent Mills is now the car park for the Kelvin Hall. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/15/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718246

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