View from S of SW side of former Post Office
E 32573 CN
Description View from S of SW side of former Post Office
Date 12/6/2002
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number E 32573 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 755029
Scope and Content Bakery (Post Office), Nursery Buildings, New Lanark Road, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south This shows the single-storeyed bakery which was built c.1850 and later converted into a post office which closed in 1990. The five-bayed building has two entrance doors and a central bipartite window. The building has a slated roof and ashlar margins around the doors, windows and quoins (corner stones). Part of the Nursery Buildings are to the left. Robert Owen felt that mill workers would have cheaper, more nutritious food if there was a bakery in the village. Originally he wanted the bakery to be in the school but it is unknown if this ever happened. This purpose-built bakery was added after Owen's time; it was badly damaged by fire in 1881. 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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