Mosgiel Woollen Mill

The mill was integral to the town and a significant employer from when it opened until the end of the 20th century when it closed.

[2] Frank W. Boreham described the mill in his 1916 book Faces in the Fire:During my twelve years at Mosgiel, I often went through the great woollen factory.

As you watched the needles slip in and out, or stood beside the loom and saw the pattern grow, it really looked as though the things were bewitched.

And he took me away from the busy looms to another building altogether, and there I saw the huge engines that drove everything.

"Elizabeth Turnbull (1885–1988) – head of her section in the hosier department of the mill[3]