View from NW showing the SW side of the School, and the foundations of Mill No.4 (foreground left)

Description View from NW showing the SW side of the School, and the foundations of Mill No.4 (foreground left)

Date 12/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 754878

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32421 CN

Scope and Content The School, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from north-west This shows the School, which was built in 1817, with the foundations of Mill No 4 on the left. The two-storeyed and basement building has a piended roof and ashlar dressings around the windows and quoins (corner stones). The School was heated by warm air flowing up through a pair of brick flues and into the rooms through small rectangular vents. After being run since 1875 by the Lanark School Board the School closed in 1884 because a new primary school was opened above the village. The building was subsequently used as a net factory before being converted back into an education centre for the visitor centre in 2000. The School helped Robert Owen develop his ideas of a harmonious society at New Lanark. He educated children from the ages of one to ten in reading, writing and arithmetic, and also in singing and dancing. 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: E32421/CN

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