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Industry
Hosiery works
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| Date From | 1890 | Hosiery works in Auchinleck, with women workers at their knitting machines. Young girls are winding pirns. A 'pirn' is the Scots word for a 'reel, bobbin or spool'. often made of wood. Pirnmill in Arran is supposed to derive its name from a mill there that made pirns for the thread mills in Paisley. |
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| Date To | c1900 |
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| Theme | Industry |
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| Subtheme 1 | Manufacture |
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| Subtheme 2 | Textiles |
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| Place | Auchinleck |
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| Parish | Auchinleck |
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| Format | Photo |
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| Resource Type | Black & White Print |
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| Source | Baird Institute |
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| Reference | E079 |
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| Creator | n/k |
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| Commissioned by | n/k |
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| Copyright Holder | ©copyright East Ayrshire Libraries |
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