These photos show the final days of the main mill buildings on the bank of the River Clyde. The plasterwork and whitewashed has broken away and become faded, a shadow of its former whitewashed glory, the stone exposed. In later photos, the timbers in the rafters and on the roof coverings were stripped away, presumably for use in other buildings, as was rumoured to be the case in some Blantyre buildings.
I have to wonder what happened to all this stone and masonry. Without demolition equipment, it would have been taken down systematically and it makes me think that it may have been carted away for use in the construction of new buildings, for Blantyre was certainly going through a construction boom in that era.
(c) Blantyre Project
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Archie Peat We could have one should have had a better product than New Lanark ( and more accessible ) had we not given up a large part to the David Livingstone Memorial and let the rest go to rack and ruin !!!