General view from NW of W side of both blocks of Caithess Row

Description General view from NW of W side of both blocks of Caithess Row

Date 12/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 755051

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32602 CN

Scope and Content The Counting House & Nos 1-8 Caithness Row, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from north-west This shows part of Nos 1-8 Caithness Row, built around 1792, with Nos 9-16, built in the late 18th century, in the background. The buildings are entered by small forestairs and have an irregular arrangement of windows and doors at basement level. The green for drying washing in the foreground has cast-iron clothes poles with pineapple-shaped tops. Caithness Row is named after the Scottish county which was the origin of some of the Highlanders who worked in the village. By 1903 these buildings were split into five two-apartment houses and 22 single-apartment houses which would have been occupied by mill workers and their families. 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: E32602/CN

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