New Lanark, 1-26 Long Row, Terraced Houses View from SSW showing SSW front of numbers 15-16

Description New Lanark, 1-26 Long Row, Terraced Houses View from SSW showing SSW front of numbers 15-16

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 618093

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Nos 15-16 Long Row, 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 one of the tenements in Long Row. The bottom floor is a 'sunken' storey, with no windows to the rear, the entrance at the back being one floor up. The rooms in the sunken storey were unoccupied latterly, but were used as houses when the row was first built. Most of the housing at the north-west end of the village, including Long Row, was reconditioned in the 1970s and 1980s, partly by Community Programme workers. Most of it is now privately owned, but some of the Long Row houses are rented, and Wee Row is now a youth hostel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/545/1C

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/618093

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