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No: 25640 Contributor: Bill Stout Year: 1963
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The Norsaga Tweed Mill was in Mill Street (although the street name presumably came from the flour mill close by, not from the tweed mill). The tweed mill was next to the Temperance Hall (now the Arts Theatre), separated from it by the steep lane which led down to Mair’s crisp factory (now McConechy’s Tyre & Exhaust Centre) . The mill building is still there, now a private house or studio. I used to walk past the crisp factory and the tweed mill on my way to the back entrance of KGS every day. The clickety-clack of the power looms was a very familiar sound. I don’t know when the mill closed, or the name of the weaver in the photo.
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Picture added on 26 September 2011 at 18:44
I was fascinated too, the machinery and the noise. I used to walk down that lane too and past the crisp factory. I went home for my dinner from KGS.
Added by Rognvald Spence on 19 September 2017