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Elevated view from E of the E gable end and N side of Long Row with part of numbers 1-8 Double Row on the left

SC 755019

Description Elevated view from E of the E gable end and N side of Long Row with part of numbers 1-8 Double Row on the left

Date 12/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 755019

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32563 CN

Scope and Content Nos 1-26 Long Row, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from east This shows Nos 1-26 Long Row, which was built in the late 18th century, with part of Nos 1-8 Double Row visible on the far left. Nos 1-26 Long Row are divided into three-bayed tenements which have entrance doors on the north front (right) and the south front. There is also a road on the south side which runs parallel to the road on the right. Mill workers and their families mainly lived in single-roomed flats in these tenements although larger families may have been allowed more space. Living conditions were good for the time but poor by modern day standards. The only source of water was from public wells or the River Clyde and sewage was stored in public dung heaps. Since 1977 each of these tenements have been restored into single houses and ten of them are privately owned with four let by the New Lanark Association. 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: E32563/CN

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/755019

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