View from NNW showing NNW front of S block and WSW front of engine house

Description View from NNW showing NNW front of S block and WSW front of engine house

Date 1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 770519

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Crofthead Mill, Lochlibo Road, Neilston, East Renfrewshire This shows the smaller of the two mills surviving in 1970, with the larger one on the left. In the foreground is the site of an earlier building, there in 1964. The mills, as rebuilt, were of fireproof construction, with cast-iron columns and beams and brick-arched floors. The English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd was part of J & P Coats, the world leaders in cotton thread manufacture, and made thread under the brand name 'Sylko'. The mills closed in the 1980s. They are now owned by a metal recovery firm. The mill in this view has been demolished. This complex was founded as a water-powered cotton spinning mill in 1792. It was taken over as a cotton thread mill, possibly in the 1870s, by R F & J Alexander, and largely rebuilt in about 1881. R F & J Alexander became part of the English Sewing Cotton Co Ltd, who owned the mill in 1970. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/61/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770519

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap