Beside the Milton Burn
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Beside the Milton Burn
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 23 Mar 2018
Image is to the photographer's left, flowing just behind and parallel to the fence. Much of the area ahead is now laid out as playing fields: Image Of the buildings visible ahead, the one furthest to the left occupies what was, in 1860, the site of a corn mill. At the same time, the Milton Printworks were behind (to the north of) that house, the scatter of buildings extending about 220 metres N—S. Bleaching and calico printing was established in Milton at the end of the eighteenth century; the work was mechanised in the mid-nineteenth century. In the second half of that century, paper manufacturing was carried on here. In 1860, the ruins of a cotton mill on the course of the Milton Burn were visible at about Image, beside the northern end of the printworks.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.937199
Longitude
-4.519856