General view from SSE
SC 648777
Description General view from SSE
Date 16/4/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 648777
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 the approach to the works from the south. On the left is what was probably the central building of the original bleach works, and to the right an early 20th-century block, probably built as a store. 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 H35/65/8/16
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