Carrongrove Power Station :: More Info

Paper mills have been sited on the River Carron for over 200 years, and two earlier mills at Carrongrove dated back to at least 1840. I'm not sure when the latest mill dated from, but some construction pictures date from 1910. The mill was bought by Inveresk (owners of Caldwell's Mill in Inverkeithing, previously reported on) in 1924, but it was caught up in the same downturn in the paper market, and closed at the end of 2005.

A planning proposal was submitted in 2006 to demolish the mill and built a housing development, and the mill itself is now all gone. What remains is the power station - a paper mill requires as much power as a small town, so a two-boiler coal-fired power station was built on the site. It's a lovely little power station, quite home-made in places compared to a big power station like Inverkip, but that adds to the charm.