General view from SE of SE gable end and along SW side of Double Row

Description General view from SE of SE gable end and along SW side of Double Row

Date 12/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 754932

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32475 CN

Scope and Content Nos 9-24 Double Row, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south east This shows Nos 9-24 Double Row, which was built between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the River Clyde on the left. The south front (left) is four-and five-storeyed, but, because the building is built on a slope, the north front is only three-storeyed. Mill workers and their families mainly lived in single-roomed flats in these tenements although larger families may have been allowed more space. The tenements had no running water or toilets and often people would sleep on beds on wheels (hurley beds) that were kept under the built in box-beds. Although cramped by modern standards these buildings were forward thinking for their time and Robert Owen ensured that sewage was removed from the dung heaps outside and that there was a fresh water supply from a well. The New Lanark Association who, in partnership with the New Lanark Conservation Trust, is restoring the housing in the village, currently owns the building. 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: E32475/CN

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