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View from ENE showing NE front of engine house
SC 669138
Description View from ENE showing NE front of engine house
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 669138
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The Institute, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire New Lanark was founded in 1784 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright to spin cotton using Arkwright's package of processes in mills powered by water from the River Clyde. It was taken over by Robert Owen and partners in 1799, and was later owned by the Walker Brothers and by Birkmyre & Somerville. This shows the steam engine house added to the end of Robert Owen's New Institution for the Formation of Character by Birkmyre & Somerville in 1881-2 to house an engine to power new machinery in Mills No 3 and 4. The engine was removed from this house in about 1955, and it became a workshop. Under the auspices of the New Lanark Conservation Trust an engine from Philiphaugh Mill, Selkirk, made by the makers of the New Lanark engine, has been installed in the building. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/4/43
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