Crosshill, 22-30 King Street, Cottages View from NW showing WSW front of numbers 30-22
SC 595734
Description Crosshill, 22-30 King Street, Cottages View from NW showing WSW front of numbers 30-22
Date 4/8/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 595734
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Weavers' cottages, Nos 22-30 King Street, Crosshill, South Ayrshire Crosshill village was established in about 1808 to house hand-loom weavers working for Glasgow manufacturers. Many of the weavers who settled there were immigrants from Ulster. The cloths they made were plain cotton calicos for printing. This shows a range of single-storeyed weavers' cottages, typical in scale of most of the houses in the village, but less altered than some. The roofs are lower in pitch than most 18th-century weavers' cottages, suggesting that these were built with slate roofs. Hand-loom weaving of plain calicos became obsolete in the 1820s and 1830s, but the village survived, largely as an agricultural one, providing services for the dairying industry of the surrounding area. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/326/1A
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