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NEW LANARK: Engineers' Shop
SC 754955
Description NEW LANARK: Engineers' Shop
Date 6/2002
Catalogue Number SC 754955
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 32500 CN
Scope and Content Engineers' Shop, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south This shows the two-storeyed and basement Engineers' Shop which was built in the early 19th century. The 17-bayed building has projecting end bays and three central bays which are surmounted by a pediment with a central chimney-stack. There are ashlar margins around the windows, doors and quoins (corner stones). The architectural style of this building is similar to the School and the Institute. The main duties of the tradesmen who worked in the Engineers' Shop was to repair and build the machinery that was used in the mills. However, machinery that was used in other mills was also constructed in this building. Most mill complexes and factories had facilities to repair machinery but this engineering shop is a rare survivor from the early industrial era. 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: E32500/CN
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