View from NNE of N side of 'Tenement Stair'

Description View from NNE of N side of 'Tenement Stair'

Date 12/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 754949

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32492 CN

Scope and Content No 11 Double Row, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from north-north-east This shows No 11 Double Row, which was built between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The three-bayed tenement has a central doorway with ashlar margins and a glazed fanlight. The 12-paned astragal windows also have ashlar surrounds but the chimneypots have been removed from the chimney-stack, suggesting that the fireplaces are no longer used for coal fires. Mill workers and their families mainly lived in single-roomed flats in this tenement although larger families may have been allowed more space. The building has now been converted into a museum which shows their living conditions and many original features have been retained: the partitions between rooms, built-in box-beds and the small beds on wheels (hurley beds) which were stored underneath. 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: E32492/CN

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