bleachfield

Although that trade had ceased, his family had still retained the bleachery belonging to it, commonly called the bleachfield, devoting it now to the service of those large calico manufactures which had ruined the trade in linen, and to the whitening of such yarn as the country housewives still spun at home, and the webs they got woven of it in private looms.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

For some time he acted as clerk in connexion with a bleachfield at Roslin, and subsequently held a situation in the Commercial Bank in Edinburgh.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Ultimately, he was employed at Nethercraigs 'bleachfield, at the base of Gleniffer braes, about two miles to the south of Paisley.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

He crossed the footbridge and turned into the bleachfield.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Falconer's jubilation in the white and green of a little boat, as we lay, one bright morning, on the banks of the Thames between Richmond and Twickenham, led to such a description of the bleachfield that I can write about it as if I had known it myself.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

To Robert and Shargar it was a wondrous pleasure when the pile of linen which the week had accumulated at the office under the ga'le-room, was on Saturday heaped high upon the base of a broad-wheeled cart, to get up on it and be carried to the said bleachfield, which lay along the bank of the river.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Dalhousie, and Polton, and Hawthornden, and Dryden woods -- and the powder mills, the paper mills, the bleachfield -- and so on.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Dalhousie, and Polton, and Hawthornden, and Dryden woods -- and the powder mills, the paper mills, the bleachfield -- and so on.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

In 1772, the fame gentleman eftablilhed a printfield at Anderfton, which, with the bleachfield, give employment to between 300 and 400 people.

The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes 1791

Jjti% \7hite cloth is piade in Fife than formerly, fo many of the weavers being taken up in the check and tick manufa&ure: and the merchants choofe rather to pick up the cloth at the bleachfield, than after it has been drefled for the market.

The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes 1791