View from S showing SW and SE fronts of NE block

Description View from S showing SW and SE fronts of NE block

Date 12/8/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 659128

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content West Arthurlie Bleach Works, Kelburn Street, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire This works was founded in 1773 for the bleaching of linen woven in the vicinity. It was situated on the Levern Water, whose water was soft and well suited to bleaching. It had central buildings for chemical treatment, and the cloth was then spread out on neighbouring fields to be bleached by the sun. This shows the works from the east, with one of the smaller and possibly older buildings in the foreground. In 1965 the works were being used as a skinworks by Scottish Fellmongers Ltd. In the background to the right is the top of Cross Arthurlie power-loom weaving factory. Fellmongers took in the skins of slaughtered sheep and removed the wool for subsequent spinning. The wool-free hides were then sold to tanners, though some fellmongers were also tanners. The wool from this works was probably spun into yarn for carpet weaving. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/20/17

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/659128

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