Glasgow, 6 Cotton Street, Clyde Spinning Mill View from NW showing Dalmarnock Weaving Factory with Clyde Spinning Mill in background

Description Glasgow, 6 Cotton Street, Clyde Spinning Mill View from NW showing Dalmarnock Weaving Factory with Clyde Spinning Mill in background

Date 1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 586909

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clyde Spinning Mill, Cotton Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow (City of Glasgow council area) This was a large brick cotton-spinning mill built by the Clyde Spinning Co, and designed by Clarke and Bell, architects. It was the first large spinning mill built in Glasgow since the 1840s, and one of the last to be built in the city. This view shows the mill from the north west, with the river Clyde in the foreground. The single-storey weaving sheds in front of the four-storey spinning mill were part of the Dalmarnock Weaving Mill, built between 1870 and 1907. Cotton spinning, which had flourished in Glasgow in the first half of the 19th century, did not develop in the second half, partly because of competition from Lancashire, and overseas, but also because more lucrative investment opportunities existed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H66/8/2A

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