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Pitcairnfield Bleachworks View from NW showing NE front of main block
SC 502509
Description Pitcairnfield Bleachworks View from NW showing NE front of main block
Date 14/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 502509
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 store for bleached cloth, built in 1894. This was linked to the nearby Huntingtower Bleachworks by a private, electrically-operated railway, the track of which can be seen to the left. It closed in 1962. Bleaching continued in the Almond valley until the 1990s, 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 H76/205/3
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