Inverbervie, High Street, Craigview Works
No Class (Event)
Site Name Inverbervie, High Street, Craigview Works
Classification No Class (Event)
Alternative Name(s) Inverbervie, Carmelite Friary
Canmore ID 126674
Site Number NO87SW 80
NGR NO 8324 7265
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/126674
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Bervie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO87SW 80 832 726
A watching brief was carried out by SUAT in 1994 on 4 trenches dug by machine on the site of Craigview Works in the reported vicinity of the 15th century Carmelite Friary (NO87SW 13.00). A pre-1400 date for pot indicates the backlands on this part of the High Street developed prior to the priory.
Sponsor: GRM Kennedy and Partners
NMRS MS/991/79.
Publication Account (2013)
The first flax spinning mill in Scotland, using Kendrew and Porthouse’ patent, started here in 1787. There are several small water-powered mills and their warehouses dot the haugh, the valley below the town New Bervie, off Cowoff Cowgate, NO 8323 7283, NO87SW 68 1887; Pitcarry, by 1820, Upper, 1826 (NO 82368 73418, NO87SW 50), and Lint Mill 1832 (below Jubilee bridge), followed by three small steam powered mills up in the town: Laurel Mill (Church Street, 1877), Spring Works / Klondike Mill (warehouses off High Street, 1885, now a bus garage), Craigview Mill (High Street, 1907; closed 1992, replaced by a housing development.
There were three steam powered flax mills in nearby towns: Johnshaven, (1896, M13), Selbie in Gourdon (1908, closed 1997, demolished) and Invercarron, Stonehaven (1914, demolished). Selbie Works was the second last flax/ jute mill in Scotland, and its ability to switch from one material to another made it regarded as a barometer of the industry. These mills were able to operate as part of the Dundee industry thanks to the rail connection. Also see M12.
Inverbervie Old Bridge (NO 83143 7290) was built in 1797-9 by James Burn, 102ft (31.1m) span and 80ft (24.4m) high with vaulted embankments, chambers in the abutments reputedly a prison. It was bypassed by the curved new reinforced concrete 7-span Jubilee Bridge in 1935-6. At one end is a scale replica of the Cutty Sark figurehead. Hercules Linton, her designer, was born here.
M Watson, 2013
