Dens Mill

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Lower Dens Mill

The Dens Mill is a former textile mill in the Scottish city ​​of Dundee in the council area of the same name . It is divided into the Lower Dens Mill and Upper Dens Works that separately as monuments of the highest category A in the Scottish monument lists were taken. After the operation was closed, apartments were set up in the buildings.

history

During the industrial revolution in the 19th century, Dundee developed into one of the most important locations for the textile industry in the United Kingdom . At the wedding in the late 19th century, around 60 textile mills were in operation there, employing more than 50,000 people. Around two thirds of the workers were women.

William Baxter leased a flax mill in Glamis in 1818 . With his eldest son Edward as a partner, he founded the company William Baxter & Son in 1822 , which built the first complex of the Dens Mill. Edward Baxter left the company three years later, whereupon two other sons joined as partners and the company was renamed Baxter Brothers & Co. In 1853 the engineer Peter Carmichael , who was already working in the company, was added as a partner. Three years later, William Ogilvie Dalgleish , who had married a granddaughter of the company's founder, joined the company. In 1892 the company took over the majority of Boase & Co. , owners of Claverhouse Bleachworks . In 1924 the company was taken over by Low & Bonar . In 1978 the company was closed.

The Dens Mill employed up to 4,500 people. To operate the 28  steam engines with a total installed output of 2850 hp , around 300 tons of coal were required every  week  . They drove machinery to operate the 1200  weaving machines in the weaving mill and 22,600 spindles in the spinning mill .

description

Lower Dens Mill occupies a square along Princes Street ( A929 ) east of the city center and near the docks. Its individual sections were created in the 1830s, 1860s and 1935. The original mill from the 1820s was demolished and rebuilt. The Bell Mill on the west side, planned by Peter Carmichael in 1866, is striking . The four-axis south gable of the five-story building is designed in the neo-Renaissance style with arched windows along the flanking elevator and stair towers. The left tower is continued with two arched openings on each side, crowned by a segmented arch gable . A cross rises from the final dome.

The Upper Dens Works, on the opposite side of Princes Street, was possibly the largest linen mill in the world at the time of construction . The planning engineering firm Umpherston & Kerr adopted concepts for the planning that had already been used in the Coffin Mill .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ The Scotsman: Dundee jute baron's fund to help create new jobs , September 4, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Information about the company's history

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Coordinates: 56 ° 27 '55.9 "  N , 2 ° 57' 46"  W.