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An abandoned mill in Switerland
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The Watermill is located in the centre of Dedham Vale, a wonderfully English village close to the Essex/Suffolk border. This is part of the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
The Mill was once owned by John Constable’s father and Constable made the Mill and the surrounding area the subject of many of his works of art.
The Domesday Book of 1087 mentions a mill at Flatford and records William the Conqueror's decision to keep it and some of the surrounding land for himself. This means there was a Saxon mill at Flatford before the Norman Conquest of 1066. In the late 14th century The Manor Court Rolls contain a record of a fulling mill at Flatford that was called ‘Flotfordmelle’.
The date stone built into the back wall of the Flatford Mill records the renovating of the mill by Abram and Isabel Constable in 1753. It appears to bear their initials and reads ‘AIC 1733’, but it has been tampered with and the ‘1753’ altered to ‘1733’. The mill was not owned by the Constable family until 1742.
The abandoned Crofthead Mill in Neilston. The mill closed in 1992 and had a history going back to 1792.
A beautiful listed mill in the heart of the Peak District. this 17th century Hathersage Mill was the first in the UK to make stylus for record players. Now a stunning exceptionally spacious holiday let. A fantastic base to explore the gorgeous Peak District national park.
Built at the start of the Industrial Revolution, Quarry Bank Mill is a wonderfully well preserved cotton mill, now in the care of the National Trust. Knowledgable guides are there to show many of the machines working, and the cotton calico they produce is for sale in the shop.
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Mill Gill Force is a hidden waterfall in a lovely secluded pocket of woodland near Askrigg, Wensleydale. The gill gets it's name from the mill which stands half a mile downstream. Water crashes over the rocks dropping around 25 feet below before seeming to split into three and descend down a second drop of around 3 feet. It is a lovely waterfall that is best when combined with a trip to Whitfield Gill Force, a further kilometre along the footpath.
One of just two operational tidally powered mills left in the UK, Eling tide mill is over 200 years old. It sits at the boundary of Eling Creek and the Bartley Water River in the Southampton Suburb of Totton, Hampshire, UK.
A water mill in a public park in Ankara-Turkey.
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DB Cargo Class 60 No. 60017 passes New Mills South Junction with 6H02, the 10:08 Arpley Sidings – Tunstead Sidings empty hoppers on 12th April 2021.
2021 represents a significant milestone in the history of the Phoenix Railway-Photographic Circle with the celebration of our 50th anniversary. Phoenix was set up in spring 1971 and was created to promote an alternative approach to railway photography. Why not take a look at the PRPC web site at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.
Explore #104
Taken at Forks of the Credit Provincial Park near Cataract at the sight of a ruined mill.
The mill from below.
Mabry Mill
Blue Ridge Parkway, VA
I have posted several photos of Mabry Mill over the years but I never tire of it. Barbara has two of my photos of it in her office and she says so many people recognize it instantly. It is one of the most photographed places on the Blue Ridge Parkway. If you want a photo of it without people in it, you need to go during the off season or have a lot of patience.
The mill was operated by E.B. Mabry from 1910 - 1935. It was first a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, then a sawmill and then in 1905 a grist mill. By 1910 the front part of the mill was completed. If you would like to visit Mabry Mill, it is located at mile marker 176.2.
After 18 months of living in the Snoqualmie Valley, I still hadn't gotten a good shot of the local mountain reflection. Today, the stars aligned so that I got out to the mill pond on a day with fall color and a nice mix of clouds and sun. On the way home, there was a traffic jam because people were stopping to watch the massive elk herd alongside the 202. Bit of a change from Seattle.
Some long exposure photos around The Millenium Walkway at New Mills. Bordered by two stations one can walk from New Mills Central to New Mills Newtown
A poor quality old print in my collection, but can anyone else provide a shot of a mainline loco on the Ponts Mill Branch??? At the time the branch was closed, the clay dryers can been seen behind, part demolished. Clay traffic finished in April 1992, but the site was used subsequently to refurbish the CDA wagon fleet. Over 5 years after the works closed 47572 had worked in on the Royal Train with Charlie Boy sleeping the night here. The actual train being behind me with a Royal Duff on the other end, the BTP wouldn't let me anywhere near. The branch was finally disconnected in 2005.
Woodchurch Mill in Kent. Sadly the sails were removed from the Mill some months ago, I imagine for restoration.
Taken with a Canon 350D
During our 2016 vacation, we visited the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill museum in Salem, Oregon, part of the Willamette Heritage Center.
Another Friday spent along the rails of Cape Cod did not disappoint.
The noon Canal Excursion from Buzzards Bay is headed south to its turnaround point at the great marshes in Barnstable. It is seen here crossing Mill Creek in the center of Sandwich at MP 62 on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal operated former New Haven Railroad Cape Mainline.
Leading the way is MC 2009, a rare model GP28 built by EMD in Nov. 1964 for the Illinois Central as their #9439. Only 31 of the 1800 hp units were built and only 16 of those were for US roads. Bracketing the five car train on the north end is recently repainted FL9 #2011 (blt. Sept. 1960 as NH #2038).
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Friday September 15, 2023
After finishing up at Yuengling 2532 goes around the Pottsville leg of the wye on the way home to West Cressona.
Continuing in my subject/slideshow fashion we'll take a look at the R&N around Pottsvile. They serve what I think is still a team track and 2 Yuengling breweries around town. The Pottsville Branch from Port Clinton ends at Pottsville Junction, a switch which is probably technically in Mount Carbon. There is about a half mile spur from there north towards downtown Pottsville while the Middleport Runner (the former Passenger Main as this was from Port Clinton to Tamaqua) goes about 10 or 12 miles to Middleport. About 2 miles up the runner past Pottsville Junction is Mill Creek Junction and the connection(s) with the Saint Clair Runner to Yuengling's brewery at the south end of the old Reading Co. St. Clair yard in Port Carbon. The track to this brewery had been abandoned but was put back in in 2002, a great opportunity as the arch bridges you'll see in this sequence are on the wyes of Mill Creek Junction which was the relaid track.
Preston Mill is an unusual and eye-catching 18th century mill with a conical kiln and red pantile roof that looks like a combination of an oast house and a wizard's hat.
Freightliner 66610 with matching branded wagons heads North at Langley Mill with 6M51 15.40 Peterborough West Yard to Tunstead Sdgs. 18/04/18.
"A byroad from Old Byland leads to the secluded valley of Caydale (or Yowlassdale), with its solitary stone house, once a flour mill and now a private residence. Caydale is a little dream-world flanked by woods, with the great mass of Easterside Hill beyond. In spring and summer it is a paradise of wild flowers."
From "Fair North Riding" by Alfred J. Brown, first published 1952.
Once the feeder pond for Cellars clough mills,now a private fishing lake with some excellent Carp in there.
My daughter and I finally went out to snap some local photos. This is Starrs Mill near where we live. I used the classical oil brush technique in CPE4 to give it this painterly effect.
Black 5 No.45212 is seen passing New Mills South Jn with the Railway Touring Company's 1Z60 09.45 Preston - Derby "The Peaks Express".
Taken on the 27th Oct 2024.
Quarry Bank Mill was founded in 1784 by a young textile merchant, Samuel Greg, Quarry Bank Mill was one of the first generation of water-powered cotton spinning mills. Styal was chosen for a number of reasons, not least because of the suitable head of water provided by the River Bollin and its proximity to the Bridgewater Canal and thus Liverpool. As the Greg enterprise flourished, the Mill itself was extended and a working community established at Styal. This included two chapels, a school and a shop as well as cottages and 'terraced' housing. By the 1830's Samuel Greg & Co. was one of the largest cotton manufacturing businesses in Britain with four other mills as well as Quarry Bank.
Samuel Greg, the Mill's founder, gained experience and contacts in the textile trade whilst working for his uncles' merchant-manufacturing business from 1778, inheriting the company 4 years later. He built the Mill as a water powered cotton spinning mill in 1784, continuing to manage its affairs until his death in 1834. The Mill underwent considerable development, with more machinery and waterwheels added, and a steam engine installed. He learnt to appreciate the value in looking after his workforce. He was a speculative businessman who made a considerable fortune from his activities.
Samuel's main business partner was Peter Ewart, who brought technical skill to the firm. He served from 1796 - 1815, although his involvement was purely nominal from 1811. Ewart had been an apprentice with Boulton and Watt, then serving as the company's Northern agent, and was a partner in Samuel Oldknow's Stockport cotton spinning business in 1792 - 93. He oversaw improvements to water power and machinery, and introduced steam power to the Mill in 1810. Gregs' managers were largely responsible for the day-to-day running of the Mill, enabling their masters to concentrate upon the broader issues facing the family enterprise and the industry, particularly under Samuel and Robert Hyde's leadership.
Samuel's son, Robert Hyde Greg, continued to expand the Mill and introduced weaving in 1838. He replaced his father as the figurehead of the family enterprise, although this caused him considerable strife from the late 1840's as some of the other mills managed by his brothers began to fail. He retired in 1870 and died 5 years later. Unlike his father, he had outside interests, whether influencing political opinion (he served as an MP for Manchester, 1839 - 41) or developing his horticultural interests.
Edward Hyde Greg replaced his father as head of the Mill from 1870 - 1900, but was less suited to business life, and enjoyed the privileges which wealth could bring. Under his stewardship, the Mill encountered increasing difficulties as the industry began to be challenged by foreign competition and the British economy suffered a downturn. His main decision was to abandon spinning in favour of weaving in 1894.
His sons, Ernest William and Robert Alexander, were responsible for converting the Mill into a limited company in 1923, and although they retained directorships, their contact with the Mill diminished henceforth. Ernest William's son, Alexander Carlton, finally closed the Mill in 1959, although he had never been actively involved in the industry.
The Mill is now owned by the National Trust.
The building is now the focal point for the Channel 4 TV drama "The Mill"