Furness Postcard Collection - Spinningdale Mill
Date Added: 24 April 2008
Year Range: 1960 - 1999
Institution Name: dnhhl
Cat No: ◀ | 2008_020_119 | ▶
Picture No: 3826
Colour postcard from the Furness Collection showing Spinningdale mill, surrounded by trees, on the banks of the Dornoch Firth
Dimensions: jpeg file
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This was not actually a spinning mill, but a mill producing wooden pirns made from oak, for the spinning mills in Lanark. Spinningdale existed long before the mill and the name is believed to be Norse. It is thought the mill burnt down when sawdust caught fire and it was never rebuilt.
Comment left on 05 April 2014 at 16:33 by Gordon McKay Lyon
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