Glasgow, 335 St Vincent Street, Merino Spinning Mill General View

Description Glasgow, 335 St Vincent Street, Merino Spinning Mill General View

Date 1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 610077

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Merino-spinning Mill, No 335 St Vincent Street, Glasgow This mill was built in about 1835 for C S Cochran & Co, worsted and woollen spinners. It was designed to spin wool from merino sheep, which have long and silky fleeces, and which were reared in Australia. The wool was imported through Glasgow harbour. This shows the mill from the south, after demolition of surrounding buildings, and removal of the stair-tower behind the left-hand column. The columns are being formed in reinforced concrete to support a realigned St Vincent Street above the M8 motorway. This mill may well have been built to supply the Paisley shawl weavers with the fine worsted yarns from which they wove many of their shawls. It remained an isolated example of its type, as, once railways developed, worsted yarns could be brought up from Yorkshire or the Borders. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H68/458/1D

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