View from NNE showing N entrance to lade tunnel with part of lade in foreground
SC 717929
Description View from NNE showing N entrance to lade tunnel with part of lade in foreground
Date 10/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717929
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lade, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This village was founded in 1784 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright to exploit the latter's package of processes for spinning cotton by water power. The site was chosen because of a natural waterfall on the River Clyde, known as Dundaff Linn, which eventually provided power for four mills. This shows the north west end of the tunnel through which water drawn from a weir above the waterfall, feeds a lade which supplied water to a total of ten waterwheels, and more recently to a turbo-alternator. The New Lanark Mills closed in 1968, so that water was not being drawn from this weir, and hence the lade is not running. In the 1980s the New Lanark Conservation Trust, by then owners of the mills, had the turbine reconditioned and a new alternator fitted. The current produced is fed into the National Grid. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/6/29
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/717929
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
Licence Type: Permission to Reproduce
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]