Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 978374

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/978374

After successful trials of power loom weaving in the Old Secession Hall, Stewart and Ogilvie built their new factory in 1873. A jute weaving shed over a deep basement set into the hillside, giving a two storey front, engine houses of 1895 and 1915 (the tandem compound engine by Douglas & Grant was scrapped c1970). Later owned by J &D Wilkie, it closed c.2010. Power was transmitted from shafts below the floor. The north-lit roof is characterised by zinc octagonal ventilators and louvred clerestorey ventilators over the warping department. Dundee engineers Robertson & Orchar supplied the design, millwrightwork and looms. The town gasworks is on the other side of the public car park beside the factory and the burn.

M Watson, 2013