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Balfron was a small settlement of about 50 people until until Robert Dunmore built Ballindalloch Cotton Works and an adjacent planned village in 1789. Within a year the population was about 1000 | <div style="text-align:right">[[Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society |GO TO SCWS▶▶]]</div> | ||
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Balfron was a small settlement of about 50 people until until Robert Dunmore built Ballindalloch Cotton Works, a thread spinning mill, and an adjacent planned village in 1789. The village was to accomodate the mill workers and weavers, who were eomplyed by Robert Dunmore to weave the thread into cloth on on hand-looms. A school was built and staffed by the company. This provided one and a half hours of schooling for the children per day after they had completed a day's work. Within a year the population was about 1000. | |||
A railway station was built 2 miles from the village in 1856, leading to development of the hamlet Balfron Station around it | The Ballindalloch Works were bought in 1798 by James Finlay & Company of Glasgow, followed by the [[Catrine Co-operatives|Catrine]] Mill in 1801 and the [[Deanston Co-operatives|Deanston]] in 1808. From about 1810 to 1820 the mill issued countermarked dollars and halfpennies. round 1830 it also issued it's own private bills of exchange. ames Finlay & Company sold the mill in 1844. The mill is noted in the second statistical accounts but is noted as disused in the 1896 ordinance survey map, shown opposite. | ||
A railway station was built 2 miles from the village in 1856, leading to development of the hamlet Balfron Station around it. This was due to Balfron becoming a popular tourist destination for people from Glagsow. The station closed in 1951. | |||
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Revision as of 17:52, 20 April 2024
Balfron was a small settlement of about 50 people until until Robert Dunmore built Ballindalloch Cotton Works, a thread spinning mill, and an adjacent planned village in 1789. The village was to accomodate the mill workers and weavers, who were eomplyed by Robert Dunmore to weave the thread into cloth on on hand-looms. A school was built and staffed by the company. This provided one and a half hours of schooling for the children per day after they had completed a day's work. Within a year the population was about 1000.
The Ballindalloch Works were bought in 1798 by James Finlay & Company of Glasgow, followed by the Catrine Mill in 1801 and the Deanston in 1808. From about 1810 to 1820 the mill issued countermarked dollars and halfpennies. round 1830 it also issued it's own private bills of exchange. ames Finlay & Company sold the mill in 1844. The mill is noted in the second statistical accounts but is noted as disused in the 1896 ordinance survey map, shown opposite.
A railway station was built 2 miles from the village in 1856, leading to development of the hamlet Balfron Station around it. This was due to Balfron becoming a popular tourist destination for people from Glagsow. The station closed in 1951.
BALFRON VICTUALLING SOCIETY circa 1800-1830
The society is not listed in Pigot's 1826 Directory of Scotland. In 1830 four men gave notice that they were no longer members of the Buchlivie and Balfron United Society[1]. It is possible that the Balfron Victualling Society united with another in the village of Bychlyvie, about 7km away.
Pigot's 1837 directory lists Balfron Economical Society, indicating that the Buchlivie and Balfron United Society failed before this time.
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| File:BalfronCoop.H.jpg | ||
| Source | (J G Scott[2]) | |
| Filename | BalfronCoop.H | |
| Value | No value | |
| Add Desc. | Struck oin circle n George III halfpenny | |
| Size (mm) | 29 | |
| Manufacture | Copper | |
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