Old Photograph Mills Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Mills in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish town’s industrial development was primarily based on the products of its fertile agricultural hinterland. The weekly corn market held in the town supplied two corn mills and two barley mills, as well as flour mills and breweries, all reflecting the grain growing capacity of the area. The mills used water power from the River Eden, to the south of the town. Another important industry which also used the water power of the Eden for its mills, was flax spinning. The weaving of the flax into linen, however, was based on a home industry numbering 600 weavers in 1845.



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