View from WNW looking down Rosedale Street with Long Row on the left and Double Row on the right

Description View from WNW looking down Rosedale Street with Long Row on the left and Double Row on the right

Date 11/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 772734

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content New Lanark, South Lanarkshire This shows some of Dale's housing, at the north-west end of the village. Long Row is on the left, and Double Row on the right, so-called because it is two rooms thick. At the far end of Double Row is Wee Row, similar, but shorter. In the distance is New Buildings, remodelled by one of Owen's partnerships. Long Row was converted to modern house units by the New Lanark Conservation Trust in the 1980s, and Wee Row is now a Youth Hostel. Double Row has had its shell restored, but awaits internal conversion. The north-western end has been retained as last used as a museum stair. 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 H35/71/2/2

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/772734

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