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Publication Account
Date 2013
Event ID 978478
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/978478
Flax spinning by water power started in 1799 in what was at first a flax scutching and corn mill. In 1801 the firm coined its own Brechin halfpenny with the round tower on one side and the two-storey East Mill depicted on the other. A three-storey fireproof spinning mill was added in 1837 with a bellcote over the stair tower. It is in the style of Umpherston &Kerr, Douglas Foundry, the only example left outside Dundee of the Dundee type of iron frame from this period, pre-1850. The wheelhouse has been removed. Other buildings carry various datestones, the continuation to the north is pre 1821, and one to south of the original range is of 1858. The bleach works to the east experienced a fire in 1898. Now it sorts potatoes.
M Watson, 2013
