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Dundee, Princes Street, Lower Dens Mills, Interior View of flax store showing compound trussed beam
SC 543412
Description Dundee, Princes Street, Lower Dens Mills, Interior View of flax store showing compound trussed beam
Date 17/5/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 543412
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lower Dens Mill, Dundee, Angus This flax-spinning mill was built by Baxter Brothers, and became part of one of the largest linen complexes in the world, supplying yarn to be woven and finished in the Upper Dens Factory, immediately to the north. This view shows an unusual compound-trussed beam in the detached flax store for Lower Dens Mill. The cast iron beam with its wrought-iron straining rods supports not only the wall above, but also the floor. The Dens complex, by that time in the ownership of Low and Bonar, was closed in 1978. Subsequently the 1850 Upper Dens Factory was converted into housing, and the Lower Dens Mill housed a range of small businesses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/110/11
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