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Pitcairnfield Bleachworks View looking ESE showing inset track for railway with works chapel to left
SC 502506
Description Pitcairnfield Bleachworks View looking ESE showing inset track for railway with works chapel to left
Date 14/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 502506
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Part of Pitcairnfield Bleachworks The clean soft water of the river Almond was used by a number of large linen-bleaching fields from the 18th century. Pitcairnfield was one of these, originally a croft bleaching works, where cloth was spread on fields to be bleached by the sun. This view shows the former works chapel on the left, and the track of the works railway leading to a single-storey brick warehouse for finished cloth, seen in the distance. The railway was electrically operated from 1911 until closure in 1962. Bleaching continued in the Almond valley until the 1980s, latterly of cotton cloth. The last works on the Almond was Huntingtower, closed in 1982. This area was the largest centre for linen bleaching in Scotland in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/204/16
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/502506
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