David Dale Avenue
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David Dale Avenue
Image: © James Allan Taken: 25 Dec 2009
Looking east along David Dale Avenue, Stewarton, a street named after David Dale. He was born here in 1739, the son of a local grocer, trained as a weaver in Paisley and in the 1780s, along with Richard Arkwright built the mills in New Lanark Image Here he was soon employing over 2,000 workers, many of them children from workhouses in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Dale's venture was not only a considerable commercial success, it also proved that industry did not necessarily have to be inhuman, that factory labour could go hand in hand with dignity and enlightenment.
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Image Location
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55.676703
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-4.525183