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Spring Drive A9 And B9099 Roads To The Mills In Stanley Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive on the A9 and B9099 roads through Luncarty on ancestry visit to the Mills in Stanley by the River Tay in Perthshire a few miles North of Perth. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the eighteenth century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill., Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton-spinning machinery was persuade by, George Dempster, the Local MP, when Dempster was visiting Cromford in Derbyshire, to come to Scotland to set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills, opened in 1787 and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The village of Stanley was built to house the workers of the mill. Work on the village began in 1784. It was designed by the Duke of Atholl's factor James Stobie. By 1799 the Village's population was around 400, however, in 1831 it had reached around 2000 residents about half of whom worked in the mill. Much of Stanley's economy was based on a mill powered by the river Tay. The mill mostly produced cotton but also cigarette ribbon. The Dempster & Co company was established in 1787 by seven men including Richard Arkwright, George Dempster and William Sandeman to build the mill on land feued from the Duke of Atholl to provide employment to Highlanders affected by the clearances. During the 1960s and 70s the Mills was in decline and finally closed down. in 1989. After that mill fell into dereliction. However, The buildings were renovated and turned into private flats and a museum depicting life in the 19th century and the story of the mill. The B9099 road starts at Luncarty Bridge, towards the end of the dual carriageway section of the A9 north of Perth. Heading north, we initially follow the old A9 alignment into the small village of Luncarty, and then quickly out the other end