New Lanark Cotton Mill. Built 1785.
The power of the River Clyde at New Lanark that drove the water wheel to supply the power to the mill.
On wednesday I visited the World Heritage Site, New Lanark Cotton Mill,
" New Lanark is a remarkable place. The village was built from 1785 in a previously inaccessible gorge of the River Clyde a mile south west of Lanark. Here it could take advantage of the tremendous power of the fast flowing river. The village's cotton mills, for much of their life the largest in Scotland, continued to operate for nearly two hundred years until their closure in 1968. Since 1974 the New Lanark Conservation Trust has been working to restore the village to what you see today: an achievement culminating in the inclusion of New Lanark in UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites on 14 December 2001"
Taken from, http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lanark/newlanark/
where there is much more information and pictures
28/06/07 @ 22:51