View from ESE showing SSE and ENE fronts

Description View from ESE showing SSE and ENE fronts

Date 11/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 772724

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The School, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This shows the School for Children built by Owen as part of his remodelling of the complex. It was completed in about 1816, and had two classrooms on each of the upper floors, and a public kitchen in the basement. Note the partial collapse of the roof, which occurred in January 1971. This building was used as a school until the 1880s. It was then used mainly as a store. The mills closed in 1968, and the site was then acquired by Metal Extractions Ltd, who recycled scrap metal. The school was later restored by the Department of the Environment, and has recently become an education centre. This complex was founded in 1785 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright to use the latter's package of processes to spin cotton yarn by water power. Dale built four mills, and housing for about 2,000 workers. Robert Owen, with a succession of partners, remodelled the village, and rebuilt one of the mills after a fire. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/1/9

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/772724

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap