View from SSE showing SSE front of 'old' engine house with part of 'new' engine house on left and base of chimney and part of cooling pond on right

Description View from SSE showing SSE front of 'old' engine house with part of 'new' engine house on left and base of chimney and part of cooling pond on right

Date 7/5/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 699494

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Garie Works (Mill), Kirriemuir, Angus This mill was founded in 1868 by the Wilkie family to weave jute fabric for sacking and bagging, presumably using yarn spun in Dundee, which was the centre of the jute trade. The mill was originally steam-powered, and there were still three steam engines in it in 1969. This shows the generating station for the works in the centre, with part of the engine-house for the main driving engine on the left, and the retaining wall of the cooling pond for the condenser water of the large engine. The main Douglas and Grant driving engine was kept as a standby in 1969, and was still in good condition, It was scrapped in about 1970. Of the other two engines one, in this house, drove a generator, and the other had driven machinery directly. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/28/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/699494

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