Caltowie. Last remnant of the Caltowie Roller Flourmills. Letters on the side faintly says roller mills.
Tenders for the construction of the Caltowie steam flourmill were called for in 1880. The building was up for rent in 1881.
After a public meeting in the Caltowie Institute the Caltowie Steam Flourmill Company was formed. Many local farmers bought shares for 5 pounds each. The flourmill had a rail siding. The Company renewed the lease in 1884. It was then up for sale in 1892 and 1893. The mill was sold to James Both in 1894 and shareholders received about 10 shillings a share. Both then ran the mill well into the 1920s. Both called it the Roller Flour Mills. The mill was struck by lgihtening in 1927 but suffered little damage. When did it close?
Both's son Edward Both invented a cheap plywood iron lung at the height of the polio epidemic in Australia in 1938. It sold for 100 pounds unlike the metal aMerican respirator which cost 2000 pounds in Australia. Both's iron lung was sold in England Australia and eventually America. Edward Both was a professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide. He also did work on electrocardiagrams and humidicribs.
Caltowie. Last remnant of the Caltowie Roller Flourmills. Letters on the side faintly says roller mills.
Tenders for the construction of the Caltowie steam flourmill were called for in 1880. The building was up for rent in 1881.
After a public meeting in the Caltowie Institute the Caltowie Steam Flourmill Company was formed. Many local farmers bought shares for 5 pounds each. The flourmill had a rail siding. The Company renewed the lease in 1884. It was then up for sale in 1892 and 1893. The mill was sold to James Both in 1894 and shareholders received about 10 shillings a share. Both then ran the mill well into the 1920s. Both called it the Roller Flour Mills. The mill was struck by lgihtening in 1927 but suffered little damage. When did it close?
Both's son Edward Both invented a cheap plywood iron lung at the height of the polio epidemic in Australia in 1938. It sold for 100 pounds unlike the metal aMerican respirator which cost 2000 pounds in Australia. Both's iron lung was sold in England Australia and eventually America. Edward Both was a professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide. He also did work on electrocardiagrams and humidicribs.