View from E of E side (front) of Mill No.1, after its restoration and conversion to a hotel

Description View from E of E side (front) of Mill No.1, after its restoration and conversion to a hotel

Date 13/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 754831

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32374 CN

Scope and Content Mill No 1, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from east This shows Mill No 1 which was built in 1785 and rebuilt in 1789 after a fire the previous year. The building opened as a hotel in 1998 after a £7 million restoration. The five-storeyed and attic building has a projecting central block which is topped by a Diocletian window with Venetian windows at either side on each storey. The upper two storeys of this building were removed in 1945 and the mill was badly damaged by fire in 1970. Part of Mill No 2 can be seen on the left. This restoration has won several awards as it has retained and replaced many architectural features but also because it has encouraged economic growth in the area with around 55 people employed in the hotel and surrounding buildings. Originally the building had a bellcote which in the mid-19th century was moved to the New Buildings where it has become an accepted feature. 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: E32374/CN

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