Pitlochry, Ferry Road, The Atholl District Laundry General view from NE showing chimney and laundry
SC 509233
Description Pitlochry, Ferry Road, The Atholl District Laundry General view from NE showing chimney and laundry
Date 5/10/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 509233
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Atholl District Laundry, Pitlochry, Perthshire This was a good example of the mechanised laundries that became popular from the 1880s, when laundry machines were developed. This one served the holiday resort of Pitlochry with its many hotels and boarding houses. This view shows the laundry from the south east. There were three parallel ranges of workshops, the two to the rear being timber-clad. The middle one had prominent timber-clad roof-ridge ventilators. The advertising on the chimney was unusual. Laundries like this were badly hit by the ready availability of domestic washing machines, as a large part of their trade was with private households. This one had closed by 1976, and has now been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/268/1
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