View looking ESE showing part of Long Row on left and Double Row on right

Description View looking ESE showing part of Long Row on left and Double Row on right

Date 11/7/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685638

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Nos 1-26 Long Row & Nos 9-24 Double Row, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This village was founded in 1784 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright, taken over in 1799 by the first of a series of partnerships headed by Robert Owen, purchased by the Walker Brothers in about 1826, sold to Birkmyre & Somerville in 1881, and to the Gourock Ropework Co Ltd in the early 1900s. This shows the larger part of the housing built by David Dale for the workers in the mills, along what is now called Rosedale Street, looking south-east. On the left is Long Row, of two storeys and basement, and on the right Double Row, three storeys and basement. This view was taken immediately after the mills had been closed by the Gourock Ropework Co, when many of these houses were still occupied. Long Row has since been converted internally into individual houses, but Double Row awaits conversion. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/6/37

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685638

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