View from SE showing from left part of School, Institute, New Buildings and terraced houses

Description View from SE showing from left part of School, Institute, New Buildings and terraced houses

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646155

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This village was founded in 1784 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright, with, ultimately, four water-powered cotton mills plus associated housing and community facilities. In 1799 a partnership headed by Robert Owen took over the mills, and Owen considerably rationalised the whole village. This shows the village from the south-east, with Owen's New Institution for the Formation of Character in the centre, and his school on the left, with the mills beyond. On the right is Caithness Row, and beyond it New Buildings, with its belfry, originally on No 1 Mill. In 1965 the mills were still working, and the unimproved housing was still occupied, as can be seen by the coal smoke drifting from the chimneys in this view. The mills closed in 1968, and after a period of neglect the village has been restored by the New Lanark Conservation Trust and Housing Association. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/13/28

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/646155

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