Old Photographs Douglastown Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and children in Douglastown located three miles South West of Forfar, Scotland. This Scottish village takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co., in which Mr Douglas was a partner, to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnabruks, named from the German town of Osnabruk, where it was originally made. The hamlet of Douglastown was built to house the workers. The mill closed in 1834. It used flax-spinning technology invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlington, patented in 1787.

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