French Street
French Street was firstly known as Papillom
Street after Mr Pierre Jacques
Papillon, a chemist from Rouen in France. In
1785 George MacIntosh invited him over to
superintend the Turkey Red dyeing
establishment, they setup Dalmarnock Works,
later remnamed Barrowfield with David Dale and
this became the first Turkey Red Works.
In 1805 they sold to Henry Monteith who
already posessed a Turkey Red factory in
Bridgeton & Blantrye. By 1823 they could
produce 224 handkerchiefs every ten minutes
and exported most of them to Europe
( Henry Monteith 1764-1848 was one
of Glasgow's major cotton manufacturers, a Lord
Provost of Glasgow and Tory MP )
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