View from NNW showing W front of office block and part of main block of Cheapside Flour Mill with Houldsworth's Cotton Mill in background

Description View from NNW showing W front of office block and part of main block of Cheapside Flour Mill with Houldsworth's Cotton Mill in background

Date 27/6/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646220

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Houldsworth's Cotton Mill, No 93 Cheapside Street, Glasgow This mill was built in two stages. The first part was constructed between about 1804 and 1806 for Henry Houldsworth, and was powered by a Boulton & Watt engine. It was doubled in length between 1854 and 1864. It was a bonded store from 1878 to 1964, when part of the 1804-06 building collapsed. This shows the Cheapside Street frontage of the works from the north-west, with part of the Cheapside Flour Mills on the left. Above the small office is the section of the work which collapsed in 1964. The firewall projecting above the roofline marks the boundary between the earlier and later sections of the work. The 1804-6 building was the first fully iron-framed mill in Scotland. It used the hollow vertical columns to heat the flats, which, as the mill spun fine cotton yarns, had to be kept hot. The later section had wooden beams on cast-iron columns. Both mills were demolished in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/15/31

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/646220

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