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Huntingtowerfield, Bleach and Dye Works View from S showing gears and barrels of hand crane
SC 573983
Description Huntingtowerfield, Bleach and Dye Works View from S showing gears and barrels of hand crane
Date 25/8/1982
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573983
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Huntingtowerfield Bleach and Dyeworks, Almondbank, Perthshire (Perth and Kinross council area) This works was founded in about 1775 to bleach linen, using the pure water of the river Almond, and became one of the largest bleachworks in Scotland. It continued in use until 1981 in the ownership of Burt, Lumsden and Co Ltd. This view shows the mechanism of a hand-operated Scotch Derrick crane, made by D Cameron and Co of Glasgow and fastened to the side of the Liquor House. Note the wooden framing, a rare survival. The Scotch Derrick crane was devised in about 1850 by David Henderson of Fox, Henderson and Co, and initially manufactured in that company's Renfrew works. The patent was later acquired by Duncan Cameron, whose firm made this one. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H82/2/11
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