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Spinningdale Cotton Mill View from NW

SC 435285

Description Spinningdale Cotton Mill View from NW

Date 1974

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

Catalogue Number SC 435285

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Spinningdale Mill, Sutherland This mill was built for the Balnoe Company to provide employment locally. It was a cotton-spinning mill, half the size of a typical lowland mill, designed to produce yarn for weaving into cloth on hand-looms. The mill was gutted by fire in 1806. This view shows the mill from the north west. The semicircular tower on the gable is a heating tower, which had a stove in the base with an iron flue passing through a chamber on each floor, thus heating that floor. This is the only heating tower surviving in a Scottish mill, and possibly the only one anywhere. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H74/132/3

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/435285

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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