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Interior. View of first floor room (after restoration)
E 32412 CN
Description Interior. View of first floor room (after restoration)
Date 13/6/2002
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number E 32412 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 754869
Scope and Content First-floor room, The Institute, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This shows a restored room on the first floor of the New Institution for the Formation of Character which was built between 1809 and 1816. The room is lined with wood to dado (shoulder) height and has a wooden gallery supported by columns on three sides. The perforated iron floor plates were hot air vents, the air having travelled through hollow iron pillars on the floor below. The Institution cost £3,000 to build and was extremely important in allowing Robert Owen to develop his ideas on creating a harmonious society at New Lanark. He hoped that he could improve the morals of his adult workforce and make them aspire to a better standard of living. Originally the building was used as a school but it became the centre of the village as it was used as a religious meeting place, canteen, dance and concert hall. New Lanark was founded c.1785 by David Dale (1739-1806), a Glasgow merchant, and Richard Arkwright (1732-92), inventor of a water-frame for cotton spinning. Powered by water flowing from the Falls of Clyde the first cotton mill opened in 1786 and by 1799 the complex was the largest of its kind in Scotland. Robert Owen (1771-1858), who was married to David Dale's daughter, was one of a group who bought the mills in 1800. He transformed them into a model industrial community with good working conditions, houses, a non-profit store, a school and an institute for workers. Owen's partners bought the mills in 1828 and operated them until 1881 when another partnership took over. The Gourock Ropework Company ran the site until 1968 which is now mainly under the care of the New Lanark Conservation Trust (founded 1974-5). New Lanark was designated a World Heritage Site in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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