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Event ID 697550

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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This former jute spinning complex is now used predominantly as warehousing. Formerly a works operated by J & D Wilkie Ltd of Kirriemuir, it was closed and sold in 1987. The mill was previously owned by Richards of Aberdeen (in the 19th century).

By 1987 it was one of 6 jute spinning mills in the UK. and was the last vretivcally integrated comanies (including weaving and calendering).

the cursher (probably ULRO, Dundee) and the dust shaker (1907, FLCB) are the oldest machines. The rest was post 1945, but impressive. There were many 20th century corrugated-iron warehouses. The water system, weir and lades could potentially date to the c.1770 bleachfield. There were extensive areas of jute drying frames in the fields for the drying of wet jute from Dundee. The mill, formerly owned by Richards of Aberdeen (34 h.p. steam engine, 150 hands in 1864) appears to have been rebuilt as a single storey unit in 1909, subsequently added to and altered.

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO) 8 March 1996 and information (verbal) from M Watson, Historic Scotland, 28 October 1987.

The works have probably been mostly rebuilt as a single-storeyed, mostly rubble-built unit in 1909, and most of the jute warehouses, many of which are corrugated sheet metal structures, originate from after that date

Information from Mark Watson, Historic Scotland, March 1996.