New Lanark, New Buildings View from SSE showing SW front of New Buildings and SW front of numbers 215-223

Description New Lanark, New Buildings View from SSE showing SW front of New Buildings and SW front of numbers 215-223

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 618063

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content New Building, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire New Lanark was founded as a cotton mill village in 1784 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright to use the latter's package of processes to spin cotton yarn (twist) by water power. The village was managed from 1799 to the mid-1820s by Robert Owen, and continued to spin cotton until 1968. This shows the large block of tenements in the centre of the village, known as New Buildings. The lower part was built by Dale in about 1798, and the upper part was added in about 1810 by one of Owen's partnerships. The building was empty in 1971, and decaying. This building was refurbished in the 1980s by the New Lanark Conservation Trust, and now contains rented housing, and a recreated mill-worker's flat. In 2001 the village was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/543/2B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/618063

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