Spinningdale Cotton Mill drone 3d model
Sir John Sinclair ((1754-1835), a Scots landowner, through that textile manufacturing would give Highlanders the ‘opportunity of tasting the sweets and advantages of labour’. The cotton-spinning community called Spinningdale was established in the early 1790s on the 18,000-acre Skibo estate on the Dornoch which was purchased in 1786 by George Dempster (1732-1818), who once spoke of ‘converting Sutherlandshire into Lancashire’. A partnership that included David Dale, built a stone mill which employed about a hundred people, and 20 cottages, but the managers found it difficult to impose work discipline on Highlanders, and the building was sold before it was destroyed by fire in 1806 leaving ruins which remain, including two characteristic features of Arkwright-period spinning mills, a latrine turret and a Venetian window. The site is dangerous, should not be entered and is on private land. By Drone Media Scotland contact@dronemediascotland.com www.dronemediascotland.com
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