View looking NW along lade with Mill Number 1 in background and part of Mill Number 2 and Mill Number 3 on left

Description View looking NW along lade with Mill Number 1 in background and part of Mill Number 2 and Mill Number 3 on left

Date 13/11/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 696737

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Mills No 1, 2 & 3, 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 the lade constructed in 1784-5 to supply water to power the mills. Mill No 1 is in the distance, and Mill No 3 on the left. The flat-roofed projection is part of Mill No 2, which was widened in the 1880s to replace Mill No 4, destroyed by fire in 1883. The four mills were built in 1784-95 by David Dale, initially in partnership with Richard Arkwright. Mill no 1 was damaged by fire in 1785, rebuilt by 1787, and cut down c.1946. Mill No 3 burned down in 1819, and was rebuilt in the 1820s. The mills were closed in 1968 by the Gourock Ropework Co. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/36/0

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/696737

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