Cromarty, Marine Terrace, Hempworks Looking W, view of N range. (Now the Byre Restaurant)
SC 435118
Description Cromarty, Marine Terrace, Hempworks Looking W, view of N range. (Now the Byre Restaurant)
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 435118
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Hemp and linen works, Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty This unique complex was established by local landowner George Ross to increase the rent from his burgh of Cromarty. It consisted of a quadrangle of two-storey sandstone rubble buildings, with a fifth block dividing the courtyard into two. This view shows the site of the front range in the foreground, with the cut-back remains of the north range on the left, and part of the ropewalk on the right. The north range was probably a handloom weaving shop. The complex was designed to make hemp ropes and linen sailcloth by hand methods. The maritime trade of the area, before significant road improvement, was important. Ross did his best to secure prosperity for Cromarty, but it was short-lived. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/123/3
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