ABSTRACT
The warehouses and offices of the New Lanark firm were in Glasgow, and Robert Owen had to divide his time between the two places, usually riding to and fro on horseback. In consequence of Owen’s advice, David Dale sold both this Highland mill and others in which he had an interest. He remained a director of the Royal Bank in Glasgow; but he was less active in business, and was able to pay summer visits to Owen at New Lanark. Until 1808 Owen continued to live in the village of New Lanark, still passing most of the winter at Dale’s old house in Glasgow. But, with addition to his family of Dale’s daughters, the New Lanark house became too small, and he took long lease of Braxfield House, a big country house, which was only about quarter of mile away from the mills. Braxfield House is the scene which forms the domestic background to Owen’s life at this period.
