New Lanark

Sunday was a free day in Glasgow to do whatever we wanted - one of the girls who I’ve become friends with on the trip, Serena, wanted to go to a village called New Lanark so I decided to join. It was about an hour and a half south east of Glasgow by train and bus.
It was a really nice day in terms of weather. New Lanark is a World Heritage Site - it is an 18th century cotton mill village which was founded in 1785 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright, and managed under the social pioneer and Utopian idealist Robert Owen. He saw it as a model industrial community and a social experiment.The village is situated in a valley next to the River Clyde with a canal and a waterfall. The village has a school, cotton mill, houses for the mill workers, and shop. After looking at the museum and cotton mill, we walked around the village and up to the Falls of Clyde lookout, and also to the school, and house of Robert Owen. The mills closed in 1968 but the village since been restored by the New Lanark Conservation Trust to what it is today.