Doors Open Day

Discover New Lanark's Lost Buildings.

There are four tours available, the theme of which will be "Lost Buildings". Bookable via www.newlanark.org. Limited availability.

The tour will take 40 minutes and will take people on a journey of the buildings that could not be saved at New Lanark;. Mill 4, Mantilla Row etc. It will be a fully narrative and illustrative experience with photography and an interpretation of Mantilla Row.

New Lanark is a former 18th century cotton spinning mill located on the banks of the Falls of Clyde where philanthropist and utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, spacious and well designed worker's housing and dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism. Today New Lanark is recognised as one of Scotlands's six UNESCO World Heritage Sites of "outstanding universal value" and welcomes over 300,000 visitors to the site each year.