Galashiels, Hudderfield Street, Abbotsford Mill View from WSW showing part of NW front of main block with N (central) block in background

Description Galashiels, Hudderfield Street, Abbotsford Mill View from WSW showing part of NW front of main block with N (central) block in background

Date 13/6/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 613050

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Nether Mill (Abbotsford Mill), Huddersfield Street, Galashiels, Scottish Borders This works was founded in 1805, and extended in 1866, at a time when the Borders woollen industry was re-equipping with self-acting mules for spinning, and power-looms for weaving. The original mill was water-powered, the additions, steam-powered. This shows the courtyard of the mill, with part of the 1805 block on the right. The railing protects the lade where it enters the basement of the mill, where a water turbine had replaced the original waterwheel. Beyond the mill are a steam engine house and its associated boiler house. This mill was still in use in 1968, and the water turbine was still supplying power for the machinery. It remained an integrated spinning and weaving mill, making high-quality tweeds and other worsted cloths. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/513/2D

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/613050

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap