View from SW showing waterwheel
SC 699147
Description View from SW showing waterwheel
Date 28/3/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 699147
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Woollen Mill, Kilmahog, Stirling This mill was probably founded in the early 19th century as a carding mill to provide hand spinners with carded sliver, and then probably added spinning and power-loom weaving to meet the needs of local country people. As it is on the main road to the Trossachs it may have catered for an early tourist trade. This shows the mid-breast waterwheel, 4.27m in diameter, which powered the mill. In 1969 it was being used to power a demonstration power-loom. It was probably on its original location, though the building and machinery it was designed to serve had gone. By 1969 this mill was an established tourist attraction, selling woollens made elsewhere, in what appeared to be a former weaving shop. Since then it has become more of a shop, and is still very popular with visitors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/17/22
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