Netherplace Bleachworks, Electricity Generating Station; Interior View of No.3 Kier
SC 606384
Description Netherplace Bleachworks, Electricity Generating Station; Interior View of No.3 Kier
Date 4/3/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 606384
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 kier, part of the bleaching equipment. In this vessel, lengths of cloth, sewn together to form a continuous 'rope', are boiled with solutions of chemicals to remove materials, naturally occurring in the textile fibres, which discolour it, or would affect the even-ness of dyeing. 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 H68/429/1C
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