View from SW showing part of SSE front of main block

Description View from SW showing part of SSE front of main block

Date 8/7/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 682130

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cartside Mill, Kilbarchan Road, Johnstone, Renfrewshire This mill was built in about 1790, probably to spin cotton using the recently developed spinning mule, which could produce finer yarn than Arkwright's water frame. Architecturally it was the finest of the first generation of Renfrewshire cotton-spinning mills. This shows the building from the south-west. The bays contained the stairs, so that the mill flats were unobstructed. The water tower was added in the early 20th century, when the mill was converted to a paper-coating factory, as were the buildings in the foreground. This mill became a paper-coating works in about 1870, and was still in use as such in 1967, with the mill flats being used for festoon drying of the paper after coating. The owners, Smith & McLaurin, were taken over by an American company in 1984, and this building was demolished in about 1990. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/67/4/11

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/682130

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap