Records of Forth and Clyde Roperie Co Ltd, rope and twine manufacturers, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

• Wages books, Manilla and Ropewalk Mills, 1918-1937;
• Wages books, West Bridge Mills, 1937-1943;
• Wages book, Forth and Clyde Works, 1937-1941.

West Bridge Mills of Forth and Clyde Roperie began as a flax spinning mill by F and W Hendry, founded in 1806. Forth and Clyde Roperie Co had been in existence since at least 1918, and was incorporated as a limited company in 1951. In 1998, the company changed its name to Lamont Fabrics Ltd, a private limited company, and was dissolved in 2004. After lying derelict for 10 years, the West Bridge Mill was converted by the Link Housing Association into The Foyer, to provide accommodation for 44 people, office suites, training and seminar facilities, restaurant, job club and creche.

In 1920, Hugh Joyce was tried for culpable homicide committed at the Forth & Clyde Roperie Company, Horse Wynd, Kirkcaldy. The trial papers are at the National Records for Scotland, references AD15/20/142 and JC26/1920/5.

Sources: Companies House website; http://www.nas.gov.uk/; http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/52941/details/kirkcaldy+bridgeton+west+bridge+mill/; http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-36397-bridge-street-the-foyer-west-bridge-mill-

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National Records of Scotland, AD15/20/142 and JC26/1920/5 papers relating to the trial of Hugh Joyce, 1920; Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh hold photographs of the mill.

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Fonds level description compiled by Alma Topen, Senior Assistant Archivist (Cataloguing) 17 January 2013. Lower level description compiled by Alma Topen, Senior Assistant Archivist (Cataloguing) 3 Mar 2011. Edited by Emma Anthony, Business Archives Cataloguer, 28 January 2013.