Note

Date 4 August 2010

Event ID 608711

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/608711

Blanefield Print works is named and depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 25-inch map (Stirlingshire, 1862, sheet XXVII .5) and covered an area of some 19346 square metres (23137 square yards). By 1898 (Ordnance Survey 2rd edition 25-inch map, Stirlingshire 1898, sheet XXVII .5), the buildings depicted at NS55089 796459, NS55096 79681, NS55100 79627, NS55111 79657 and NS55117 679631 have been demolished with some reconfiguration of buildings to the NE of the site. The ranges along Station Road appear to have been rebuilt by 1898. By 1918 (Ordnance Survey 3rd edition 25-inch map, Stirlingshire, 1918, sheet XXVII .5) the site had been cleared and only the buildings known as 'Burnside Row' survive along Station Road. The former print works site is now occupied by housing.

Information from RCAHMS (MMD) 4 August 2010

The print works was set up at Netherton, Blanefield in 1797 in a former tape mill (textile) and was closed in 1898.

Information from A Dryden, 2004, Strathblane Heritage Society webpage http://www.strathblanefield.org.uk/history/printworks.html (retrieved 4 August 2010).