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Interior. View from NW in recently restored upper-floor school room
SC 754895
Description Interior. View from NW in recently restored upper-floor school room
Date 12/6/2002
Catalogue Number SC 754895
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 32438 CN
Scope and Content Restored upper-floor schoolroom, The School, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This shows a restored schoolroom on the upper floor of the School, which was built in 1817. The room is wood-lined to dado (shoulder) height and has an ornate ceiling rose in the centre which is flanked by plain ones. Modern school equipment surrounds the traditional-style desks and benches. 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: E32438/CN
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