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View from SW entrance to ice house, with Church of Scotland also visible in background

SC 755085

Description View from SW entrance to ice house, with Church of Scotland also visible in background

Date 12/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 755085

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32630

Scope and Content Ice house, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from south-west This shows the entrance to the ice house which was probably built in the late 18th or early 19th century. The entrance has dressed freestone margins and is surmounted by an arch formed out of wedge-shaped blocks (voussoirs). The church in the background was built in 1898. Ice houses were underground or semi-subterranean masonry structures which were filled with ice and sealed during the winter. The ice was removed as needed during the summer and used for preserving food, cooling drinks and for medicinal purposes. The ice houses would be emptied and cleaned during the autumn. 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: E32630

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/755085

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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