Dalquhurn Printworks
Location type
WorksName and dates
Dalquhurn Printworks (1715-1962)Served by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway.
Description
This bleachworks was located by Dalquhurn Point on the west bank of the River Leven where washed cloth could be laid out on the level ground to bleach in sunlight.
It was merged with the Cordale Works, to the north, around 1790, in turn becoming part of the Turkey Red Dye Co in 1897.
After closure in 1962 buildings were reused and those which survived until 1999 demolished to make way for housing.
The site was rail served from Cordale Branch Works Junction to the south, a branch which ran near the river up through the works to Cordale Point and finished at the Cordale Works. The branch opened around 1896. It closed north of Dalquhurn in the 1920s and the last portion around 1960. Portions of rails at level crossing within the works survived until site clearance.
Tags
Bleach field print worksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
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NLS Map
01/08/2020
| Nearby stations Renton Dalreoch Dumbarton Central Alexandria Dumbarton East Jamestown Balloch Balloch [1st] Langbank Cardross Balloch Pier Woodhall Bowling Bowling [CR] Upper Port Glasgow | Cordale Branch Junction Polaroid Factory Cordale Works Brick Works Dillichip Dye Works Black Bridge Dalreoch Quarry Dennystown Forge Levenbank Foundry Dalreoch Junction Tourist/other Tobias Smollett Memorial Cordale House Dalreoch North Signal Box Castle Hill [Brucehill] Cunningham Graham Memorial Park |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos) |
