OS1/34/43/15
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| AVON PRINT WORKS Continued | It is worKed both by Steam and Water power - there are two water wheels, one, 16 feet by 4 and the other 12 feet in diameter by 4 in breadth, the engine being one of nine horse power - the greater portion of the buildings are in but middling repair. It is at present in the hands of Mr. Jas. [James] Stewart, Glasgow, but who has a dwelling house at the WorKs, a neat stone built, slated dwelling two Storeys high and of modern erection. The property of Coll. [Colonel] Hamilton, Cathlaw, near Torphichen. It is told of Burns, the Scottish Poet, that he ordered a dress and Shawl of a peculiar pattern to be Manufactured at this Print Works as a present to his "Bonnie Jean". This told in the locality and also at the Works by the Manager And Others. |
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[Page] 15Ph [Parish] of Linlithgow -- Sheet 5. No. 2. Trace 2.
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