Old Photograph Cotton Mill Stanley Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Cotton Mill in Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the 18th century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill. Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton spinning machinery was persuaded by, George Dempster, when Dempster was visiting Cromford in Derbyshire, England, to come to Scotland to set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills, opened in 1787 and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The nearby village was built to house the workers of the mill.



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