After Clarks & Co merged with J & P Coats of Ferguslie Mills in 1896, the Mile End Mill was added in 1898, and here twisting processes were carried out.
Mile End Mill now houses a small textiles museum and the gates bear the famous Coats Thread Anchor logo which once appeared on the labels on the ends of bobbins. I still have many of those old bobbins of thread here - who else has some?
Another view of the Mile End Mill and the mill chimney, which has also been retained.
Another old Mill Building, seen in the background of Anchor Mill in the first photo, this is now a small business centre known as Blackhall House.
Opposite the Anchor Mills at the Hamills Waterfall there was formerly a seventeenth century flour mill, but this has been substantially reconstructed as the Watermill Hotel.
Lets climb up a drumlin for a better view!
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