View from S, with David Dales's House also visible (left)

Description View from S, with David Dales's House also visible (left)

Date 12/6/2002

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number E 32526 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 754981

Scope and Content Robert Owen's House, No 3 Rosedale Street, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south This shows Robert Owen's House which was built in the late 18th century with David Dale's House in the background. The two-storeyed, basement and attic house has two canted dormers and a forestair leading to the entrance door. The door and window surrounds/margins and the quoins (corner stones) are of dressed freestone. Robert Owen probably lived in this house between 1799 and 1808 with his wife Caroline Dale, their seven children, and from 1806 by her four sisters. The family moved to Braxfield House in 1808 and by 1903 this house was divided into two flats and was called Village House. The New Lanark Association acquired the house in 1978 and have converted it back into a single property. Displays relating to Robert Owen are on the basement and ground floor. 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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