Dundee, Princes Street, Upper Dens Mills, Interior View showing measuring machine
SC 543307
Description Dundee, Princes Street, Upper Dens Mills, Interior View showing measuring machine
Date 17/5/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 543307
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Upper Dens Factory, Dundee, Angus This linen-weaving factory was founded by Baxter Brothers, and became part of one of the largest linen complexes in the world, with yarn spun in the Lower Dens Mill, and woven and finished in the Upper Dens Factory. This view shows a calender, a machine which subjected linen cloth to high pressure by passing it through a series of rolers, closing up its texture and making it smoother. The levers at the top of the machine were used to vary the pressure on the rollers. The Dens complex, by that time in the ownership of Low and Bonar, was closed in 1978. Subsequently the 1850 factory was converted into flats, and most of the rest of the Upper Dens Factory was demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/107/10
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