This included creating an area upstream which was used for boating during the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition.
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The surviving parts of the former Garscube Mill on the River Kelvin on the outskirts of Glasgow. The mill was part of the former Garscube estate and was probably built in the early 1800s when the estate was first developed. The mill building itself once stood in the foreground alongside the river, but it burned down in 1895.
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The mill was first built to grind barley in the 1760s and finally closed in the 1940s. The site was saved by Glasgow Corporation in the 1970s as an example of an early industrial site in the city.
It's nice to see the site of the North Woodside Flint Mill on the River Kelvin in Glasgow has been cleared, making it easier to see its layout. The mill building stretched across lade in the foreground and the water flowing through it powered an undershot wheel that hung down into it. In the background on the right is an old lime kiln, with other buildings off to the left.
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At this point, the dam was no longer needed and fell into disrepair. However, a good deal of its original structure remains.
However, the head of water was barely enough to power it and water-powered cotton mills were soon replaced by steam-powered ones. At this point, the South Woodside cotton mill was replaced by a power-loom weaving factory.
Both the power-loom factory and the paper mill were demolished in the 1890s when the Caledonian Railway Line was built across the site and the two older bridges across the Kelvin were replaced by the current one.
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The remains of a stone dam under the Great Western Road Bridge at Kelvinbridge in Glasgow. This fed the South Woodside Paper mill, and may have been established as early as 1690. Later, the site also became home to the first water-powered cotton-spinning mill in Glasgow.
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The name of the mill came not from the fact it used to grind flour for making bread, but from an pub which used to stand near it on Old Dumbarton Road known as the Bun and Yill [an old Scots word for ale] House (or the Bunhouse for short).
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Once under Partick Bridge, it reached the site of the mill itself, approximately where the Bunhouse Car Park for the Kelvin Hall is now sited, and which sits directly over where the lade once flowed (bottom photo).
These structures date back to at least the 1850s, and are probably a great deal older as there was a mill on this site as far back as the medieval period.
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The remains of structures associated with the former Bunhouse Mill on the banks of the Kelvin in the West End of Glasgow. Its weir (top picture) is still visible across the river between the university and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery.
This provided a head of water, some of which was diverted into the lade, a manmade channel which flowed alongside the river (middle photo), to power the mill.
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