Pictured from the opposite side of the River Clyde at Blantyre Works, the camera in 1903 looks across to the very end of the Blantyre Mills. The large 5 storey brick built building is the former Powerloom Factory. You can just make out the whitewashed parts of the building that once was entirely covered […]
Another new photo for your today. Pictured here in 1903, is the condemned and derelict Powerloom Factory on the far right. The power-loom factory was described in 1859 as, “A large building employing about 380 hands, principally femalis, in weaving cotton yarn into cloth by Power-looms. The bottom flat of this is used in connexion […]