View from SE along Rosedale Street, showing the S side of Long Row
SC 755025
Description View from SE along Rosedale Street, showing the S side of Long Row
Date 12/6/2002
Catalogue Number SC 755025
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 32569 CN
Scope and Content Nos 1-26 Long Row, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south-east This shows part of Nos 1-26 Long Row, which was built in the late 18th century. The 42-bayed building is split into 14 tenements, which have ashlar margins around the doors and windows. By 1903 the ground floor had been converted from living accommodation into cellars and wash-houses. 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: E32569/CN
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