After our New York-Glasgow flight and a night's rest, Duncan and I drove to New Lanark. Here Robert Owen, the Welsh born woolen mill operator, first put into practice the ideas for the improvement of the lives of working people which he later tried to introduce into America in New Harmony, Indiana. New Lanark is on the upper reaches of the river Clyde. This picture was taken just above the mill dam:
Water from the dam flows down a canal behind the mill buildings on the right:
It then flows through sluices and water wheels back into the river.
