Alva, Glentana Mills

NS89NE 28 878 970.

(location cited as NS 878 972). Glentana Mills, late 19th to early 20th century. A group of single-storey buildings, mainly brick, with a tall circular-section brick chimney.

John Hume 1976.

Dating from the mid 1870s, this mill was originally three-storeys high, but was destroyed by fire in 1941 and rebuilt as a one-storeyed block. The power-loom shed at its W end is 15 bays long, has a double-ridged slate roof (hipped at its west end), and has a semi-basement which was originally used to accommodate horses. The owners until 1961 were Wilson Brothers, who had an international reputation for high-quality weaving. At the time of survey, the mill had been converted into a mill shop and tourist information centre, with an exhibition on the mills of the Hillfoots Area with working machinery. The more modern E half of the mill range also housed a coffee shop.

Information from RCAHMS

(MKO) 2001

Park, B A, (1979), 'The Woollen Mill Buildings in the Hillfoots Area', Forth Naturalist and Historian, University of Stirling, p.76-83