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View from E of lade and sluices in front of Mill No. 2 (left) and Mill No. 1 (right)
SC 754975
Description View from E of lade and sluices in front of Mill No. 2 (left) and Mill No. 1 (right)
Date 13/6/2002
Catalogue Number SC 754975
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 32520 CN
Scope and Content Lade, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from east This shows sluices controlling the water flow to the waterwheels in Mill No 1 (right) and Mill No 2 (left). Each mill had three waterwheels: a large central one and two side wheels. When the sluice gates are closed, water flowing to the mills would be stopped. The power generated by these waterwheels would be used to operate power-spinning machines in the mills. Water which had been diverted from the River Clyde by a weir to the south of the village passed through a 300m-long tunnel to the lade. The water in the lade was used to power up to ten waterwheels on the site. The walls of the lade have been restored with blue engineering bricks for the lower part and stone for the upper part. 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: E32520/CN
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