View from ESE showing waterwheel driving machine shop. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Description View from ESE showing waterwheel driving machine shop. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Date 27/5/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 866976

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Waterwheel, Inverurie Paper Mills, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire The waters of the river Don have been noted for paper-making since the 18th century. The Inverurie mills are the furthest upstream, and were founded in 1858. Until the 1970s they retained many features form the 19th and early 20th centuries, including a machine shop which could be driven by this waterwheel. This view shows the exterior of the grey-painted weather boarded machine shop, with the waterwheel, of the high-breast type, in front of it. The equipment in the shop, which was used for plant maintenance, dated mainly from the 1860s, which was probably the date of construction of the waterwheel. The modernisation of the works in the 1970s resulted in the dismantling of this workshop. The older machine tools went to Glasgow Museums, and are now at Summerlee Heritage in Coatbridge. The mills are still in operation, making high-class papers used, for instance, in the printing of banknotes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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