View from SE showing ENE and SSE fronts of 'new' engine house with 'old' engine house and chimney in background

Description View from SE showing ENE and SSE fronts of 'new' engine house with 'old' engine house and chimney in background

Date 7/5/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 699500

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 two engine houses at the mill, and the boiler-house chimney. The nearer engine house contained the main driving engine, made by Douglas and Grant of Kirkcaldy, who also made the generating engine in the farther engine house, in which it drove two dynamos. 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. The third engine had been used to drive machinery directly, but was disused. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/28/27

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/699500

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap