Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 967366

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/967366

Hilltown was the manufacturing suburb to medieval Dundee, known for its blue bonnets, firearms and buckles. Hand loom weaving took place

domestically and in factories, and some of these expanded to adopt power looms. Surviving buildings... Rashiewell Works, Dens Road...built in 1855 as a power loom weaving factory but after the merger into Jute Industries was

reassigned to winding. Now Dens Road Market, the rather hotch-potch buildings allow one to see a factory interior. Its tall circular- section chimney is one of few left.

M Watson, 2013