New Lanark, Mill Number 2 with Accessible Green Roof, World Heritage Site, Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Built to exploit the water power offered by the Falls of Clyde, the mills were in operation from 1786 to 1968. The mill village is made up of industrial, residential and community buildings, dating predominantly from between 1786 and the 1820s. It was founded by David Dale, a Glasgow merchant, in conjunction with Richard Arkwright, a trailblazing inventor of the cotton spinning industry whose patents enabled operation on a considerable scale. Dale's humane philosophy, realised from the start in the buildings of New Lanark, was expanded by Robert Owen, who took over management of the mill village in partnership from 1799. Owen created an environment where child labour and corporal punishment were abolished, and provided workers with good homes, education and free health care as well as affordable food
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Location: Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Lennystan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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