View from E of Dundaff Linn (seen from observation point in former Gas Works)

Description View from E of Dundaff Linn (seen from observation point in former Gas Works)

Date 12/6/2002

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

Catalogue Number E 32541 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 754996

Scope and Content Weir on River Clyde near Bonnington Power Station, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This image is of an artificial weir near Bonnington Power Station, just upstream from New Lanark. Permission was granted in 1926 to build a hydro-electricity generating station at Bonnington. 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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