View from SE showing SE and NE fronts of main block of mill with part of distillery in foreground

Description View from SE showing SE and NE fronts of main block of mill with part of distillery in foreground

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646203

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Deanston Mills (now Deanston Distillery), Stirling This village was founded in 1785 by the Buchanan family to spin cotton by water power, using Richard Arkwright's package of processes. The mills were eventually taken over in 1808 by James Finlay & Co, who continued cotton manufacture there until 1965. This shows the new mill built in about 1828, when the complex was enlarged and the water-works completely revised to deliver much more power. This mill was designed with a view to possible extension to the left, and the weir and lade could have delivered enough power for the extension. After the end of cotton manufacture in 1965 the semi-basement and first floor of this mill were converted into a malt whisky distillery, as Deanston Distillery, This has passed through various hands, and is still operating. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/15/16

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/646203

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