Perth, Mill Street, Pullar's Dyeworks General View
SC 553286
Description Perth, Mill Street, Pullar's Dyeworks General View
Date 17/7/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 553286
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pullars' Dyeworks, Kinnoull Street, Perth, Perthshire Pullars of Perth were the most celebrated and largest dyers in Scotland for much of the 19th and early 20th century. The Kinnoull Street works was built up from 1865, and covered a large area of central Perth. This view shows the Kinnoull Street frontage of the complex, dominated by the boiler-house chimney. Until the 1960s the works generated its own electricity from steam-driven plant, hence the size of the chimney. The works gradually ran down from the 1960s, as the dyeing of clothes and furnishing fabrics fell out of fashion, as did mechanical carpet-beating, and centralised dry cleaning. The works closed in the 1980s and are being redeveloped. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/212/10
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