24 Hours in New Lanark World Heritage Site
We spent the weekend at New Lanark World Heritage Site on our way back home from the Isle of Skye and I wanted to share what we got up to in the visitor centre experience and exploring the village and Falls of Clyde.
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New Lanark is a former 18th-century cotton spinning mill village on the banks of the Falls of Clyde.
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New Lanark Visitor Centre | New Lanark World Heritage Site, Scotland
Discover more about visiting New Lanark at newlanark.org
The award-winning New Lanark Visitor Centre tells the fascinating story of the cotton mill village of New Lanark which was founded in the 18th century. Now one of Scotland's UNESCO World Heritage Sites, New Lanark is the perfect location for a day out all year long.
Visitors can explore the many attractions and exhibition areas of New Lanark Visitor Centre with a passport ticket. Highlights include:
• Annie McLeod Experience' ride which takes you back in time
• Roof Garden
• Robert Owen's School for Children
• Millworkers' House in 1820s and 1930s
• Robert Owen's House
• Village Store
• Working Textile Machinery / People & Cotton
Want to find out more? Visit newlanark.org
New Lanark - UNESCO World Heritage Site
A tour of the UNESCO World Heritage site at New Lanark, in Scotland UK. New Lanark was a model village and planned community to house workers of the nearby textile mills. The founder provided free education and healthcare to his workers' children, good clean housing and reasonably priced goods in the shop. Many of the current labour conditions we take for granted can be traced back to New Lanark!
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Tour of New Lanark World Heritage Site, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
New Lanark is beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village nestled in the spectacular south Lanarkshire valley in southern Scotland, close to the Falls of Clyde and less than an hour from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The village first rose to fame when Robert Owen was mill manager from 1800-1825. Owen transformed life in New Lanark with ideas and opportunities which were at least a hundred years ahead of their time. Child labour and corporal punishment were abolished, and villagers were provided with decent homes, schools and evening classes, free health care, and affordable food.
New Lanark is still a living community, and the village is in the care of an independent charity. Profits from the hotel and visitor attraction help the Trust continue to restore and maintain the historic village.
0:04 -- Inside the Steam Engine House and a look at a well-preserved steam engine.
0:50 -- A jumper and different wool made by the wool-spinning machine.
1:04 -- The wool-spinning machine.
1:45 -- A very old manual operated wool-spinning machine.
2:03 -- Panoramic view of New Lanark and the surrounding scenery -- includes the Falls of Clyde -- from the Roof Garden.
3:16 -- Inside a replica 1820's house -- ignore the 1930's typing error. Includes the lounge/dining room (3:16), bedroom (3:42), toilet (4:09), bedroom (4:23) and information on how the houses were built (4:40).
4:52 -- Inside Robert Owen's House. Includes his study (4:55), lounge (5:19), recreation room (5:56), kitchen (6:13) and the servant's living quarter (6:57).
7:20 -- Outside the newly renovated Visitor Centre.
7:35 -- Panorama of the terraces at New Lanark from the Visitor Centre.
8:09 -- Entrance to the New Lanark Hotel.
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New Lanark World Heritage Site Virtual Tour
Take a virtual tour of the New Lanark World Heritage site and discover the fascinating history of the impressive cotton mill village of New Lanark and the life and times of mill manager and social pioneer Robert Owen in the award-winning New Lanark Visitor Centre.
New Lanark World Heritage Site, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
A little short of the many things to see and do at New Lanark World Heritage Site, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.
The award-winning New Lanark Visitor Centre tells the fascinating story of the cotton mill village of New Lanark which was founded in the 18th century.
New Lanark quickly became known under the enlightened management of social pioneer, Robert Owen. He provided decent homes, fair wages, free health care, a new education system for villagers and the first workplace nursery school in the world! Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, New Lanark has been beautifully restored as a living community, which welcomes visitors from all over the world. Travel back in time on the Annie Mcleod Experience dark ride which features mill girl Annie who magically appears and reveals the amazing story of her life and times in New Lanark in 1820.
Christmas in the New Lanark Mill Shop | New Lanark World Heritage Site, Scotland
Visit us in the New Lanark Mill Shop and pick up a fantastic range of gifts for the whole family. Open 7 days a week!
New Lanark World Heritage Site.
Villages were provided with decent homes, schools and evening classes, free health care and affordable food.
New Lanark lets you imagine how people lived and worked in Owen's time.
New Lanark is still a living community and the village is in the care of an independent charity. Profits from the hotel and visitor attraction help the New Lanark Trust continue to restore and maintain the historic village.
New Lanark - Exploring A World Heritage Site
New Lanark is a village and cotton mill on the River Clyde, approximately 1.4 miles from Lanark, in Lanarkshire, and some 25 miles southeast of Glasgow.
It was founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers.
Under the ownership of a partnership that included Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, a Welsh philanthropist and social reformer, New Lanark became a successful business and an early example and a milestone in the historical development of urban planning.
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New Lanark Mill Hotel
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Unlike any other in Scotland, the New Lanark Mill Hotel was originally an 18th century cotton mill. After years of painstaking restoration work by New Lanark Trust, the hotel opened for business and pleasure in May 1998, and has quickly developed into a popular choice for a short break destination. Located in the heart of New Lanark World Heritage Site this restored 18th century cotton mill village is nestled in the spectacular south Lanarkshire valley in southern Scotland, close to the Falls of Clyde and less than an hour from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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New Lanark
The award-winning New Lanark Visitor Centre tells the fascinating story of the cotton mill village of New Lanark which was founded in the 18th century.
New Lanark quickly became known under the enlightened management of social pioneer, Robert Owen. He provided decent homes, fair wages, free health care, a new education system for villagers and the first workplace nursery school in the world! Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, New Lanark has been beautifully restored as a living community, which welcomes visitors from all over the world. Travel back in time on the Annie Mcleod Experience dark ride which features mill girl Annie who magically appears and reveals the amazing story of her life and times in New Lanark in 1820.
.Robert Owen was one of the most influential thinkers and social reformers of his time. The Robert Owen Museum in Newtown, Montgomeryshire houses a collection of objects, pictures and written material relating to the life of Robert Owen. The Museum tells Owen’s story and is in the centre of Newtown just a few feet from where Owen was born.
Robert Owen was born in 1771. At 10, he was sent to London to be apprenticed as a draper and by his early twenties he was a successful manager in the mills of Manchester. The working conditions there appalled him. He believed character was formed by experience and that the dreadful environment of child workers would inevitably lead to damaged and dehumanised adults.
So when, in his late twenties, Owen became a partner and manager of a large cotton mill at New Lanark on the River Clyde, he decided to create a model environment. He improved the factory and village, built a school and provided a shop where quality goods could be bought at a fair price. The school curriculum included music, dancing and nature study. Visitors came from all over the world – even the Tsar of Russia.
Owen campaigned and lectured throughout his life. In 1812-13 he wrote “A New View of Society” which explained his vision. He tried to repeat the success of New Lanark when in 1824 he created a model community in New Harmony, Indiana. The ideal was a village based on co-operation and profit sharing. New Harmony and similar experiments by his followers did not succeed as he had hoped. But his ideas continued to have influence and one group of followers in Rochdale set up the famous Co-operative shop in 1844 and pioneered the world wide co-operative movement.
Owen returned to Newtown at the end of his life and died there in 1858. Factory reform and universal education were achieved in the 19th century, and Owen’s vision for fairness and social progress remains a source of inspiration today.
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh - UNESCO World Heritage Site
A tour of the gorgeous UNESCO World Heritage site of the Old and New Towns in Edinburgh, Scotland. So much happening here, from the medieval Old Town with its ancient buildings and fortified castles, to the incredible New Town where Scottish thinkers and scientists astonished the world. Such a great vibe in the city too - lots of street art and performers!
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New Lanark
New Lanark, the cotton mill village of New Lanark which was founded in the 18th century.
New Lanark quickly became known under the enlightened management of social pioneer, Robert Owen. He provided decent homes, fair wages, free health care, a new education system for villagers and the first workplace nursery school in the world!
Scenic Drive: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK to New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Take this very pleasant and scenic drive from Edinburgh to New Lanark, which is situated half way between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The journey takes about 1 hour, but goes through some very pleasant rural and rugged scenery.
So sit back and enjoy!
0:10 -- GPS information -- 39.1 miles to go and 58 mins to go from A720 Edinburgh Bypass to New Lanark.
0:32 -- Approaching Hermiston Junction.
0:37 -- Merging onto the M8.
0:42 -- Unidentified 737-800 taken off from Edinburgh Airport.
0:48 -- GPS information -- 30.0 miles to go and 49 mins to go from the M8 to New Lanark.
1:03 -- GPS information -- 20.0 miles to go and 40 mins to go from the M8 to New Lanark.
1:27 -- Entering the town of Longridge.
1:37 -- Abandoned and dilapidated hotel.
1:44 -- The winding, rugged roads of the Scottish countryside.
2:11 -- Rural farmland.
2:19 -- Rugged scenery.
2:28 -- Entering the county of South Lanarkshire.
2:35 - GPS information -- 10.0 miles to go and 22 mins to go from the A706 Main Street to New Lanark.
2:36 -- Entering the town of Forth.
3:10 -- Entering Carstairs Village.
3:20 -- GPS information -- 5.0 miles to go and 10 mins to go from the A70 Lanark Road to New Lanark.
3:22 -- GPS information -- 4.0 miles to go and 9.05 mins to go from the A70 Ripley Place to New Lanark.
3:37 -- Entering the Royal Burgh of Lanark.
3:39 -- GPS information -- 1.5 miles to go and 5.30 mins to go from the A73 Hyndford Road ML11 to New Lanark.
3:51 -- Turning down Braxfield Road.
4:28 -- Entering New Lanark World Heritage Site.
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New Lanark, Scotland
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Robert Owen, the founder
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Saltaire Victorian village Travel
Saltaire Victorian village Travel - Saltaire is a Victorian model village within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. UNESCO has designated the village as a World Heritage Site, and it is a so-called Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
History
Saltaire was founded in 1853 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry. The name of the village is a combination of the founders surname with the name of the river. Salt moved his entire business (five separate mills) from Bradford to this site near Shipley partly to provide better arrangements for his workers than could be had in Bradford and partly to site his large textile mill by a canal and a railway. Salt employed the Bradford firm of Lockwood and Mawson as his architects.[1]
A similar project had been started a few years earlier by Edward Akroyd at Copley, also in West Yorkshire. The cotton milling village of New Lanark, which is also a World Heritage site, was founded by David Dale in 1786.
Salt built neat stone houses for his workers (much better than the slums of Bradford), wash-houses with running water, bath-houses, a hospital, as well as an Institute for recreation and education, with a library, a reading room, a concert hall, billiard room, science laboratory and gymnasium. The village also provided a school for the children of the workers, almshouses, allotments, a park and a boathouse.[2]
Sir Titus died in 1876 and was interred in the mausoleum adjacent to the Congregational Church. When Sir Titus Salts son, likewise Sir Titus Salt, died, Saltaire was taken over by a partnership which included Sir James Roberts from Haworth who had worked at the mill since the age of twelve, and who would travel to Russia each year, speaking Russian fluently. James Roberts came to own Saltaire, but chose to invest his money heavily in Russia, losing some of his fortune at the Russian Revolution. He endowed a Chair of Russian at Leeds University and bought the Brontës Haworth Parsonage for the nation. He is mentioned in T.S. Eliots The Waste Land. Roberts is buried at Fairlight.
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List of World Heritage Sites in the British Isles HD
Sites designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as World Heritage Sites in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland.
List of World Heritage Sites in the British Isles :
1 Roman & Georgian Bath (Bath, England)
2 Blaenavon Industrial Site (Torfaen, Wales)
3 Blenheim Palace (Woodstock, England)
4 Brú na Bóinne Neolithic Site (County Meath, Ireland)
5 Caernarfon & Welsh Castles (Caernarfon, Wales)
6 Canterbury Cathedral (Canterbury, England)
7 Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (South West England)
8 Derwent Valley Mills (Derbyshire, England)
9 Dorset and East Devon Coast (Dorset, England)
10 Durham Castle & Cathedral (Durham, England)
11 Forth Bridge (Firth Of Forth, Scotland)
12 Giant's Causeway (County Antrim, Northern Ireland)
13 Hadrian's Wall (Northern England)
14 Ironbridge Gorge (Shropshire, England)
15 Maritime Mercantile City (Liverpool, England)
16 Maritime Greenwich (Greenwich, England)
17 Neolithic Orkney (Orkney Islands, Scotland)
18 New Lanark Factory Community (Lanark, Scotland)
19 New Town & Old Town Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)
20 Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (Llangollen Canal, Wales)
21 Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, England)
22 Saltaire Model Village (West Yorkshire, England)
23 Skellig Michael (County Kerry, Ireland)
24 St Kilda Neolithic Sites (St Kilda, Scotland)
25 Stonehenge & Avebury sites (Wiltshire, England)
26 Studley Royal Park & Fountains Abbey
27 Tower Of London (London, England)
28 Westminster Palace & Abbey (London, England)
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Sitios designados por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO) como Patrimonio de la Humanidad en Inglaterra, Escocia, Gales, Irlanda del Norte e Irlanda.
Lista de los sitios del patrimonio mundial en las islas británicas:
1 Baño romano y georgiano (baño, Inglaterra)
2 Blaenavon Industrial Site (Torfaen, Gales)
3 Palacio de Blenheim (Woodstock, Inglaterra)
4 Sitio Neolítico Brú na Bóinne (Condado de Meath, Irlanda)
5 Caernarfon & Welsh Castles (Caernarfon, Gales)
6 Catedral de Canterbury (Canterbury, Inglaterra)
7 Paisaje minero de Cornualles y West Devon (Suroeste de Inglaterra)
8 Derwent Valley Mills (Derbyshire, Inglaterra)
9 Dorset y East Devon Coast (Dorset, Inglaterra)
10 Durham Castle & Cathedral (Durham, Inglaterra)
11 Puente de Forth (Firth Of Forth, Escocia)
12 Giant's Causeway (Condado de Antrim, Irlanda del Norte)
13 Muralla de Adriano (Norte de Inglaterra)
14 Ironbridge Gorge (Shropshire, Inglaterra)
15 Maritime Mercantile City (Liverpool, Inglaterra)
16 Maritime Greenwich (Greenwich, Inglaterra)
17 Orcadas Neolíticas (Islas Orcadas, Escocia)
18 Nueva Comunidad Lanark Factory (Lanark, Escocia)
19 Ciudad Nueva y Ciudad Vieja Edimburgo (Edimburgo, Escocia)
20 Acueducto de Pontcysyllte (Canal de Llangollen, Gales)
21 Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, Inglaterra)
22 Saltaire Model Village (West Yorkshire, Inglaterra)
23 Skellig Michael (Condado de Kerry, Irlanda)
24 Sitios Neolíticos de St Kilda (St Kilda, Escocia)
25 sitios de Stonehenge y Avebury (Wiltshire, Inglaterra)
26 Studley Royal Park & Fountains Abbey
27 Tower Of London (Londres, Inglaterra)
28 Westminster Palace & Abbey (Londres, Inglaterra)
Historic Environment Scotland | Scottish Ten: St Kilda
The Scottish Ten Project is an ambitious five year initiative to use cutting edge technology to digitally record Scotland's five UNESCO World Heritage sites and five international sites in order to better conserve and manage them. scottishten.org
The team have travelled to St. Kilda to begin scanning this most remote corner of the British Isles. The island will be recorded in minute detail, with new technology helping to build on our understanding of this fascinating site and the people who lived and worked there.
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People's Historian: Robert Owen and New Lanark
In a short film for STV, People's Historian Daniel Gray tells the story of utopian socialist Robert Owen. Daniel visits New Lanark, where Owen's principles were put into practice with great success.
Filmed and edited by Marco Federici of STV.
Scotland, New Lanark, The Lake Districit & onto Leicester
Description- In this video we travel from Balloch in Scotland around Glasgow to New Lanark which is a is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism. The village was founded in 1785, and the cotton mills, powered by water-wheels, were operational from 1786 to 1968. At the turn of the 19th century the mill buildings formed one of the largest industrial groups in the world.
After spending 4 hours exploring New Lanark we then drove down and into the Lake District.
We were quite surprised at our accommodation in Ireby which was a beautiful Georgian Mansion we had booked with Airbnb, while there one evening I was able to get some good video & photos of a red Squirrel. With only one full day and a half we explored as much as we could of the magnificent Lake District.
On our drive from Ireby to Leicester we took a detour to visit the lovely village of Cartmel. It was then back to Dee's brothers home at Markfield in Leicester for a great family reunion.
This is the last video of our fabulous time spent in England & Scotland in May & June 2017