Tweedside mill
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tweedside-mill-170-10034455
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Tweedside mill
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Tweedside Mill in Peebles was originally a corn mill, rebuilt as Peebles' first modern woollen manufacturing mill in 1856 by Thomas Dickson. It was situated on the River Tweed to the west of the Tweed Bridge and below the parish church on Castle Hill. In 1858 the mill was bought by Laing & Irvine who, in 1860, installed mechanical looms powered by a 15 ft diameter water wheel, at a cost of four thousand pounds. Laing & Irvine failed to run the mill economically and in 1875 it had been bought ove
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2017-09-05T18:40:04Z
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2024-08-31T23:09:21Z
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