Dunfermline, Pilmuir Street, Pilmuir Works View of S face and S half of Pilmuir Street frontage, from SE

Description Dunfermline, Pilmuir Street, Pilmuir Works View of S face and S half of Pilmuir Street frontage, from SE

Date 1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 618481

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Pilmuir Works, Pilmuir Street, Dunfermline, Fife This was one of a number of factories in Dunfermline built from the 1840s for the power-loom weaving of linen damask tableware. Like the earlier St Leonard's Works of Erskine Beveridge & Co this one had a grand front warehouse and office block with weaving sheds behind. This shows the north end of the office and warehouse range, from the south-east. The two-storeyed range is probably part of the St Margaret's Linen Works, founded in 1870. The manufacture of linen damask tableware declined after World War I, and this works was acquired in the 1920s by The Dunlop Tyre Co to make tyre cord for the manufacture of pneumatic tyres. With more modern equipment it was still in this business in the late 1990s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H68/496/1C

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