Gatehouse of Fleet, Birtwhistle Mills View showing replacement lade
SC 634741
Description Gatehouse of Fleet, Birtwhistle Mills View showing replacement lade
Date 31/10/1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 634741
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Birtwhistle Mills, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries & Galloway The mills on this site were founded in about 1785 by Birtwhistle & Co, a Yorkshire firm, to use Arkwright's patents for cotton spinning. The firm built two mills on the banks of the Water of Fleet, and a third was added later by a Mr McWilliam. This shows the remains of the upper of the two original Birtwhistle mills. The complex was powered by water brought from a loch above Gatehouse of Fleet through a lade cut partly in tunnel. The steel launder seen here still carried the lade in 1964 to the site of the wheel that powered the upper mill. These mills were out of production by 1850, when they were reconstructed as a bobbin mill by William & Thomas Helme of Dalbeattie. The bobbins were used in textile mills for a variety of purposes. The Gatehouse of Fleet mill was ruinous by 1964. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/64/2/18
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