View from SE showing ENE front and part of SSE front of old building with stone shed and house in background

Description View from SE showing ENE front and part of SSE front of old building with stone shed and house in background

Date 16/4/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 648771

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Burnfoot Bleachfield, Burnfoot Road, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire This works was established in the late 18th century, probably for bleaching cotton cloth. Initially it would have used croft bleaching, where, after treatment with acid and alkali, the cloth was spread on fields for the sun to finish the bleaching process. This shows what was probably the central building of the original bleach works. The road seen here runs through the centre of the works. The house on the far right was probably built for the manager of the works. The advent of chemical bleaching made small bleachfields like this one less economic, as it was possible to centralise the process in large mechanised factories. This one became a silk-printing works and was still hand-block printing in the 1950s. It then served as a barrel store. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/8/10

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