North Shed. Detail of roof ventilator. Digital image of AN 4341

Description North Shed. Detail of roof ventilator. Digital image of AN 4341

Date 22/4/1980

Catalogue Number SC 787438

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AN 4341

Scope and Content Roof ventilator at Upper Dens Works, Princes Street, Dundee This is a roof ventilator on a weaving shed which was part of the Upper Dens Works, belonging to the Baxter Brothers. Ventilators were sometimes used to extract steam, because fibres which had been coated with adhesive to strengthen them prior to weaving were dried on steam dressing cylinders. Although Dundee was famous for its textile production during the 19th and 20th centuries, other industries also provided employment for the inhabitants. For example, the Keiller Company, which began by making marmalade, was established in the late 18th century, and in the 1920s, D C Thomson began printing comics in Dundee. The founder of the Baxters company, William Baxter (1766-1854), opened his first mill for spinning flax in 1822 in Lower Dens, Dundee. During the 19th century the company added other buildings to the complex, becoming the biggest manufacturers of linen in the world around 1840. They maintained this position for another 50 years. Due to the demise of the textile trade in Dundee many of the buildings were demolished in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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