View of 'New' Weir, Deanston, with salmon ladder on the left, from SE. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Description View of 'New' Weir, Deanston, with salmon ladder on the left, from SE. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Date c. 1972

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

Catalogue Number SC 866062

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Weir on the river Teith, Deanston, Perthshire The first water-powered cotton-spinning mill at Deanston was built in the mid-1780s to use Richard Arkwright's patents for mechanical spinning of cotton. In the 1820s a major expansion took place, for James Findlay and Co, with four of a projected eight large wheels, supplied with water from this weir on the Teith. The weir in 1972, from the south east. It is of the self-clearing type, floating debris being channelled to the far end, where it could be removed. The intake to the large lade is out of sight to the left. On the left is a fish ladder provided to allow salmon to ascend to their spawning grounds. Direct waterwheel drive to the Deanston mills ended in 1947, when a hydro-electric power station was built in replacement. Cotton manufacture ended in the early 1960s, and a malt whisky distillery was built in the 1820s mill. This still uses the hydro-electricity generated by water drawn from this weir. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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