Interior. View of the wheel house at Deanston Cotton Mills. Copy of 35 mm black and white negative.

Description Interior. View of the wheel house at Deanston Cotton Mills. Copy of 35 mm black and white negative.

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

Catalogue Number SC 866092

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Waterwheel house, Deanston Mills, 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 a weir on the river Teith. Shown is part of the waterwheel house built in the 1820s. The curved wrought-iron trough was installed to supply water to the four wheels which were never installed. In 1926 two Gordon turbines were installed to generate electricity for the mills and village, one of which can be seen in the centre. Direct waterwheel drive to the Deanston mills ended in 1947, when a new hydro-electric power installation was built in replacement. This is in the concrete casing to the right in this view. Cotton manufacture ended in the early 1960s, and a malt whisky distillery built in the 1820s mill, retaining this installation. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference 72/97/31

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