Logie Works

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The Logie Works were a textile manufacturing company in the Scottish city ​​of Dundee in the council area of the same name . The main complex, known as the Coffin Mill , was included in the Scottish Monument Lists in the highest monument category A in 1985 . The associated Edward Street Mill has been classified as a Category A structure since 1987. Both complexes together form a monument ensemble. The former mill complexes have meanwhile been converted into residential 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.

A. & D. Edward & Co. had the Logie Works built in 1828. The textile mill is one of the older textile processing companies in Dundee. In the course of the 1830s the company was expanded several times. In 1857 the Logie Works employed 982 people. Substantial extensions were made until the 1860s. Up until the 1860s it was the largest textile mill in Dundee. There were jute and flax fiber processed. The company later went to J. & A. D. Grimond and then to Watson, Robertson & Co. over.

Edward Street Mill was built in 1851. It was designed as a weaving mill in which the threads produced in the coffin mill , which functions as a spinning mill , were processed. It was the only weaving mill in Dundee that produced linen and damask on steam-driven looms . When it was transferred to John Sharp in the late 19th century, it was also converted into a spinning mill.

The mills, which had been open since 1977 at the latest, were converted into apartments in the 1990s and 2000s.

description

The Coffin Mill occupies a square between Brewery Lane , Lower Pleasance and Brook Street, west of downtown Dundee. The roughly U-shaped buildings enclose an inner courtyard with a wall at the end. Since the floor plan of the inner courtyard is reminiscent of the shape of a coffin, the name Coffin Mill (" coffin mill ") established itself colloquially . The brickwork of the three- to four-story building consists of irregular stone blocks that were built into layered masonry. The south-facing main facade is 22 axes wide. The steep, slate hip roofs are covered with slate. The interior is fire-proof with cast iron beams and floors. Passages are as bricked arches with brick run.

Edward Street Mill is on Edward Street diagonally across from Coffin Mill. The north-facing main facade of the three-story complex is 19 axes wide. Your masonry consists of irregular stone blocks. The floors rest on cast iron pillars, some of which are made with Doric capitals . In the same way as the Coffin Mill, passages are designed with brick-lined arches.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ a b c Entry on Logie Works  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ The Scotsman: Dundee jute baron's fund to help create new jobs , September 4, 2013.

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Coordinates: 56 ° 27 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 2 ° 59 ′ 19.6 ″  W.