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Clocktower at Eskmills

Eskmills, Musselburgh, Scotland.

 

Ex Victorian Mill manufacturing fishing nets, now restored - 'a thriving cotton fishing net manufacturing business exporting throughout the world. They were home to the first large scale mechanised production of fishing nets in the world following the invention in 1812 of the first net manufacturing machine by Colonel James Paterson, who had retired to Musselburgh to work on his inventions' Now an office development.

 

 

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Uploaded on April 9, 2012
Taken on June 23, 2011