Selkirk, Station Road, Robert's Mill, Engine House General View
SC 591431
Description Selkirk, Station Road, Robert's Mill, Engine House General View
Date 28/3/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 591431
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Philiphaugh Mill, Selkirk, Scottish Borders This was a spinning mill founded by George Roberts in 1874 to complement their older Forrest Mill in the town of Selkirk. It was unusual in housing its carding machines and spinning mules in single-storeyed north-lit sheds. This shows the engine and boiler houses and chimney, at one end of the site. The engine house, on the left, housed a steam engine of 1912, and the boiler house, in the centre, contained a hand-fired Lancashire boiler. The engine was taken out of service in 1972, and was removed in 1974 to New Lanark, where it has been re-erected in an existing engine house. It served as a standby to two water turbines installed in 1922 to replace a waterwheel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/178/2B
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