New Lanark, 1-10 Braxfield Row General view from NNW snowing NW and NE fronts

Description New Lanark, 1-10 Braxfield Row General view from NNW snowing NW and NE fronts

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 618107

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Nos 1-10 Braxfield 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 the road into the village, with Braxfield Row on the right. Like the other rows in the village, this was tenemented. Under the auspices of the New Lanark Conservation Trust this was the first of the village housing to be sold to private owners, as restored shells for outfitting to owners' tastes. Most of the housing in the village has been revivified, with the notable exception of Double Row, one tenement of which has been kept unaltered as a museum stair. There is a mixture of privately owned and housing association tenanted houses, and Wee Row is now a youth hostel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H69/546/1D

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/618107

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