Netherplace Bleachworks, Electricity Generating Station; Interior View of wooden bleaching machine

Description Netherplace Bleachworks, Electricity Generating Station; Interior View of wooden bleaching machine

Date 4/3/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 606382

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Netherplace Bleachworks, Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire This was the last of the many rural textile finishing works established in east Renfrewshire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1968 it belonged to Wallace & Co (Netherplace) Ltd, and was engaged in 'customer' finishing of fabrics from a wide range of sources. This shows a washing machine, part of the bleaching equipment. What look like tapes inside the machine are in fact cloth in 'rope' form, being washed by passing through hot water in the lower part of the machine. The parts of the machine in contact with cloth are wooden, to avoid staining the cloth, as would happen with metal parts. This works was still using 'traditional' bleaching methods in 1968, with some 19th-century equipment. The works no longer bleaches, but is the Scottish base for Coats Viyella. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H68/429/2A

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