Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 960063

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/960063

This 3-storey, red sandstone flax mill of 1834 is narrower than usual. Its fireproof floors formed from tiles rather than brick. Two other mills formed a courtyard, demolished for new housing as part of the conversion of this one in 1986. Made one million sandbags per week in WWI.

M Watson, 2013.