Old photograph of factory workers in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. The 1800s marked a period of industrialisation for Alyth, though its textile mills came and went in much the same way as its brewery had done. Textiles were at their height following the arrival of the railway in 1861. For a while the town was the location of a 100 loom steam mill producing linen, and by 1870 the industry employed 350 people in Alyth's two mills.
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