New Lanark Mills - David Dale's house
Introduction
The photograph on this page of New Lanark Mills - David Dale's house by Rob Farrow as part of the Geograph project.
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New Lanark Mills - David Dale's house
Image: © Rob Farrow Taken: 26 Aug 2019
Although New Lanark is most closely associated with the Utopian Socialist Robert Owen, he had actually bought the mills from his father-in-law David Dale who had founded the site in 1786 in partnership with the inventor and pioneer of industrial cotton spinning, Richard Arkwright. After a while the partnership was dissolved and Dale took sole control. He too was philanthropic but not as committed to his workers' welfare as Owen - for example in Dale's time the working day was 15 hours - Owen cut this immediately to 10 hours and later to eight - which led to the eight-hour working day that is still widely used in industry. The house seen here is the one in which David Dale lived - it is now used by the NLT for business purposes and is not open to the public.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.663952
Longitude
-3.782154