View from E showing SE front of altered woollen mill with house on right and brick extension in background
SC 733228
Description View from E showing SE front of altered woollen mill with house on right and brick extension in background
Date 1/6/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733228
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Waterside Creamery (Woollen Mill), No 16 Main Road, Waterside, East Ayrshire This building was constructed in the early 19th century as a water-powered woollen mill, probably spinning yarn for weaving or knitting by local hand-workers. At that time there was a sizeable woollen industry in north Ayrshire. It may have started as a carding mill, as a wool-carder was in the parish in 1825. This shows the mill from the south east, with later additions on the left and right. The original mill is the three-storey block with small windows. The stream which provided power for the mill runs behind the mill, but so many alterations had taken place that the location of the waterwheel was not clear. The mill was converted into part of a creamery, probably in the early 1900s, as the Waterside Creamery, but this had closed by 1970. Subsequently some of the larger buildings were demolished, giving the old mill more prominence. In 2001 the building was an antiques shop. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/20/41
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