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Oblique view from SE along SW side of Mill No. 2, with Cotton Preparation buildings (converted to cottages known as 'Water Houses') to left

SC 754815

Description Oblique view from SE along SW side of Mill No. 2, with Cotton Preparation buildings (converted to cottages known as 'Water Houses') to left

Date 11/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 754815

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32358 CN

Scope and Content Mill No 2, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south-east This shows the south-west front of Mill No 2 which was built in 1788 and extended in 1884. The two-bayed brick-built extension on the right links the mill with Mill No 3. The buildings to the left of the road were water-houses built between 1809 and 1810 and converted to residential use between 1996 and 1997. Originally these buildings were used as stores for raw and waste cotton, and as picking houses where cotton was beaten. Mill No 2 originally had three waterwheels in its basement which powered the cotton spinning machinery. A vertical drive shaft led from the wheel through the whole building and was linked by bevel gears to horizontal line-shafting on each floor. The spinning machines were connected to this shafting by rope or belt drives. This form of power transfer was very dangerous and mill workers were often injured. 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.

External Reference Original: E32358/CN

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/754815

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