New Lanark House History Project needs you!

New Lanark Trust is placing a call out for people with family connections to anyone who used to live and/or work at New Lanark. They are specifically looking for anyone who used to live in the Double Row or Water Row tenement blocks.

The information gathered will be used to form a permanent record of the families who used to live in, or were connected to New Lanark. These details will be collated into a cohesive family portfolio within New Lanark’s Search Room Archive and will also be available to the public as a publication.

The research from the ‘House History’ project will also form the historical basis for the interpretation activities linked to New Lanark’s Double Row Restoration Project. This is a major Townscape Heritage / CARS Project at New Lanark to restore Double Row, the last block of former millworkers’ housing to be restored at the historic site. Building works started on Double Row in late February 2016, and are expected to continue until the end of the year.  The £4m project is being funded by a number of organisations, with the two main funders being the Heritage Lottery Fund (through its Townscape Heritage (TH) programme) and Historic Environment Scotland (through its Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS).

Anyone with information, photographs or artifacts they would like to share should contact Ruth Beattie at New Lanark Trust:

Email: ruth.beattie@newlanark.org

Phone: 01555 661345

Mail: House History Project, New Lanark Trust, New Lanark Mills, Lanark, ML11 9DB