General view of driveway to entrance front

Description General view of driveway to entrance front

Date 1890

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 700559

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 10142

Scope and Content Gardens, Kilnside House, Seedhill Road, Paisley, Renfrewshire (now demolished) Kilnside House, a large mansion standing within extensive grounds to the south-east of Paisley, was built c.1836 by Joseph Whitehead, and altered and extended in the 1880s by its then owner, Stewart Clark. The photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the gardens in 1890. This view of the gardens shows part of the large Victorian conservatory wing at one side of the house (left), and the single-storeyed extension at the rear (centre). The carriage drive is illuminated by a cast iron lamp standard (centre), adapted for use with gas. Stewart Clark was a partner in Clark & Company, the Paisley thread manufacturers whose mill at Seedhill employed thousands of local workers. In the 1860s the company opened a mill in the United States of America, where George Clark developed the first thread suitable for use on a sewing machine. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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