View from NE showing NNW front and part of ENE front of main block.

Description View from NE showing NNW front and part of ENE front of main block.

Date 15/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733675

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Alma Works (Sail Canvas), Millgate, Arbroath, Angus Arbroath was second only to Dundee as the principal industrial centre in Angus. Its principal industry was for many years the making of sailcloth and flax canvas, but it also had a notable engineering industry, as well as its renowned fishing and boatbuilding trades. This shows part of a mid-19th-century sailcloth factory. This three-storeyed block, with its engine house on the right-hand end, was probably a spinning mill. It is seen here from the north-east, looking along Bridge Street. In 1970 the works was still in operation, in the ownership of David Corsar & Sons, and making sailcloth from synthetic fibres, which are more durable than flax. The cloth made here was by that time used for yacht sails. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/34/14

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap