View from ENE showing chimney and ENE front of main block

Description View from ENE showing chimney and ENE front of main block

Date 30/9/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 682204

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Atlantic & Pacific Mills, Paisley, Renfrewshire These mills were founded in 1812 by J & J Clark to make sewing thread, which was a Paisley speciality. They, however, used cotton, rather than the traditional linen. The trade expanded enormously with the mass production of sewing machines from the 1860s, and with it the Anchor Mills. This shows the east end of the main range of mills, comprising the Atlantic and Pacific Mills. The Atlantic Mill was built in 1873 for cotton spinning, and the Pacific Mill was added in 1878 for doubling, the process of making thread from yarn, and linked in 1886. The chimney served their boiler house. J & J Clark amalgamated in 1890 with J & P Coats of the Ferguslie Mills at the other end of Paisley. Both had extensive mills overseas. In the 1970s the combine began to run down both Paisley mills, demolishing the Atlantic and Pacific Mills in 1972-3. The mills closed in the early 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/67/7/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/682204

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap