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View from SSE overlooking Dye Works, with River Clyde beyond
SC 755064
Description View from SSE overlooking Dye Works, with River Clyde beyond
Date 12/6/2002
Catalogue Number SC 755064
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 32609 CN
Scope and Content Dyeworks, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south-south-east This shows the roof of the dyeworks (foreground), which was built around 1806, with the River Clyde on the left. The building behind the piended (hipped) roof (right) is the School and the four-storeyed building (centre) is the New Institution for the Formation of Character. The stone arch (right) is one of a pair of stone arches which joins the dyeworks to the engineers' shop. One of the arches had a launder (water channel) which supplied water to the dyeworks' waterwheel. The dyeworks was originally the brass and iron foundry where all the machinery used in the mills would be made and repaired. The 7m-diameter overshot wheel which powered the building was removed in 1929. The dyeworks would have been used to dye the cotton produced in the mills and was converted in 1984 into a visitor centre for the Scottish Wildlife Trust, with craft units opened in 1986. 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: E32609/CN
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