New Lanark, New Buildings View from NE showing cupola and roof repairs with mill number 3 and mill number 2 in background

Description New Lanark, New Buildings View from NE showing cupola and roof repairs with mill number 3 and mill number 2 in background

Date 1981

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 573603

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content New Lanark, Lanark, Lanarkshire (South Lanarkshire council area) The village of New Lanark, with its cotton mills, was built by David Dale from 1784, and was enlarged by his son-in-law Robert Owen and Owen's partners from 1800. The mills eventually came into the hands of the Gourock Ropework Co Ltd and closed in 1968. This view shows the belfry on New Buildings was originally on number one spinning mill. The bell was originally cast for a church in Maryland. Until the mills closed in 1968 it was rung daily to announce the start of the lunch hour. New Buildings is the block of flats which forms the centrepiece of the village square at New Lanark. The lower storeys appear to have been built in the late 1790s, and completed c1809 by Owen and his partners. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H81/17/3

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/573603

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap