Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 967207

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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WARD MILLS / FRIARFIELD HOUSE

Don Brothers, Buist & Co offices, built in 1873, incorporated a works canteen and high level of renaissance architectural treatment, with curved

corner. Excavation has revealed the engine foundation and condenser of the 1820s Barrack Street Mill that preceded this building (NO33SW 163). Raw jute warehouses line the north side of South Ward Road (NO 39998 30297). The two spinning mills were demolished in 1964. Foundations of a large beam engine house (1885, one of the last built) show the bolts threaded through big ashlar blocks in its outer walls to Willison Street. The weaving factories were in Forfar (see M Watson, 2013, AN16-17), where

Don & Low PLC are still important in producing technical and non-woven textiles.

M Watson, 2013