View from E showing E front

Description View from E showing E front

Date 13/11/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 696733

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Mill No 1, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This village was founded in 1784 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright to spin cotton. Between 1799 and the late 1820s it was run by Robert Owen and partners, and then by the Walker Brothers until 1881, when it was bought by Birkmyre & Somerville, and later by the Gourock Ropework Co. This shows Mill No 1 from the south-east. This mill was completed in 1787, replacing an earlier mill damaged by fire in 1786. Here it is seen as cut down from five to three storeys in about 1946, as it was showing signs of collapse. This mill originally had wooden beams supporting the floors, but these were later replaced by brick arches on cast-iron beams and columns, probably in the 1880s, after a disastrous fire which destroyed Mill No 4. Mill No 1 was restored to its full height in the 1990s, as a training hotel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/35/36

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/696733

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap