Prinlaws Flax Mill, Leslie, Fife - Summer 1951
*The watermark is for internet copyright purposes only and will not appear on the purchased printThe small town of Leslie had two main industries in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. - paper and flax manufacture. At Prinlaws, on the western side of Leslie and on the River Leven, there were two flax mills - both water and power-driven - and bleaching fields built and owned by John Fergus. The image of the flax mill was painted in the summer of 1951. This building was demolished during the early 1960s