View looking SSW showing curved NE front of weaving sheds.

Description View looking SSW showing curved NE front of weaving sheds.

Date 15/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733678

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, looking south from Bridge Street along the Brothock Burn. On the right is part of the gable of a three-storeyed and attic building, probably a spinning mill, and the single-storeyed buildings are weaving sheds. 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 H35/70/34/16

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733678

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap