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The mill was in use from 1909 to the 1960s. To the right you can see the doors on different storeys where the flour was taken out. Later the mill was converted into apartments.
45690 "Leander" passes the mill near Oakworth hauling working towards Oxenhope. Taken during the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's Spring 2023 Gala.
An old water mill that was used to make bobbins for the local cotton mills at some time in its working life.
Construction of the Pear Mill in Stockport commenced in 1908. The building is typical of the architects A.H. Stott & Sons, and was designed by The mill was designed by Abraham Stott junior. Financial problems led to changes in management of the mill company and it was finally completed in 1913 by Philip Sidney Stott.
At its peak, the mill employed approximately 300 people to run 52 pairs of spinning mules with a total of 137,312 spindles. This remained until the 1950s when the mill was electrified and replaced by 33,636 ring spindles. It ceased operation as a textile mill in March 1978. Today it is a listed structure and divided into business units.
The mill is so named because it was built on the land of Pear Tree Farm. The building includes a number of decorative pears on the structure and as a dome on the tower.
The Clock Mill in the strange and watery world of Three Mills Island in West Ham.
These structures are the oldest industrial buildings in London dating back to the 18th century, although the history of milling on this site goes back even further.
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Crushing Mills, Powder Mills gunpowder factory, Dartmoor, Devon, GBR.
The Powder Mills gunpowder factory on Dartmoor, established in 1844 by George Frean—an alderman of Plymouth—was founded under the Plymouth and Dartmoor Gunpowder Company on land at Cherrybrook Farm. It was strategically sited for its remoteness, central access to markets, and reliable water supply from the Cherry Brook and East Dart rivers, used to power three water wheels via an innovative system of leats and reservoirs. Now a Grade II Listed site of national significance, it comprises at least 18 buildings formerly used for the manufacture, storage, and management of gunpowder, though most roofs and machinery have since been lost.
The factory met strong regional demand from local mining complexes like Birch Tor, quarries including Swell Tor, Foggintor, and Merrivale, and from agricultural rock clearance. It produced blackpowder using imported saltpetre and sulphur, and locally sourced charcoal made from alder, willow, juniper, and birch. The complex production process—grinding, incorporation, pressing, corning, dusting, and drying—was largely powered by water-driven machinery. The gunpowder was packed in oak barrels and distributed to depots in Tavistock, Exeter, and Plymouth.
Designed with safety in mind, the site featured widely spaced, lightly roofed buildings to reduce blast impact. In addition to its industrial heritage, the site includes significant prehistoric features, such as a Bronze Age hut circle settlement, enclosures, and a cairn. This rare combination of industrial and prehistoric remains makes Powder Mills an exceptional and nationally important heritage landscape.
‘Powder Mills – Gunpowder Factory’. Accessed 16 May 2025. dartmoorexplorations.co.uk/powder-mills-gunpowder-factory/.
Sandles, Tim. ‘Dartmoor’s Powder Mills’. Accessed 18 May 2025. www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/2017/09/01/dartmoors-powder-m....
Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a mill dam or weir (and mill stream) across a waterway.
The main hall of the zinc rolling mill was 91 metres long and 20 metres wide, the machine room 70 metres long and 6 metres wide. Between 1915 and 1917, a new hall was added, extending the facility by a further 91 metres in a westerly direction. The mill operated from 1904 to 2002.
This is the beautiful Glade Grist Mill in West Virginia. It is worth the trip if you can make it in the fall. Have a nice weekend!
Restored Lincolnshire tower mill, originally constructed in 1837 in the Tasmanian town of Oatlands. The mill is the third oldest in Australia and still operational, grinding local grain.
Another re-working of the post processing on a digital shot from 2009. This one was from downstream looking back up past the falls to the mill.
The Glade Creek Grist Mill is a new mill that was completed in 1976 at Babcock State Park in West Virginia. Fully operable, this mill was built as a re-creation of one which once ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. Known as Cooper's Mill, it stood on the present location of the park's administration building parking lot. The mill was created by combining parts and pieces from three mills which once dotted the state. The basic structure of the mill came from the Stoney Creek Grist Mill which dates back to 1890. It was dismantled and moved piece by piece to Babcock from a spot near Campbelltown in Pocahontas County. After an accidental fire destroyed the Spring Run Grist Mill near Petersburg, Grant County, only the overshot water wheel could be salvaged. Other parts for the mill came from the Onego Grist Mill near Seneca Rocks in Pendleton County.
For more information on visiting the Mill and Babcock State Park, visit Babcocksp.com.
I shot this back on 10-17-2009 with the Nikon D300 and Sigma 10-20mm lens.
Manor Mill in Chadderton was built in 1906 to the design of G. Stott for Manor Mill Ltd. There were 91,136 spindles. Production ceased in 1932 but it was reopened by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1940 and passed to Courtaulds in 1964 with Textile production finishing in 1990. It was listed Grade II in 1993. The mill is now occupied by household goods branding and distribution company Ultimate Products.
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During a time of uncertainty in Historica, the residents of Mitgardia decide they need more protection. Unconvinced that their new Queen can keep them safe, they take matters into their own hands. Farmer Gyles, a resident of Dalig Ulv, gets help from the community to build a palisade around his mill.
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I wasn't really sure about this when I first viewed it, I'd had this image in mind on arriving at the beach but got distracted by the waterfall. I thought I'd probably left it a bit late but as this was my second and last morning I decided to give it a go. For me, the foreground wave saves it and that was more by luck than judgement. The Sun was so bright in the viewfinder that I couldn't see the waves breaking so there was quite a bit of guess work involved. This was the best of the dozen or so I took.
Grade II Listed cotton mill at New Mills, Derbyshire, also known as Strafford's Mill after Daniel Strafford who had it built in the 1780s.
Built 1866 and rebuilt 1893
The mill were in use untill 1950.
Don't know exactly what they did on it though.....
The Powder Mills were built in 1844, a factory for making gunpowder which was built on the open moor, not far from Postbridge. Gunpowder was needed for the tin mines and granite quarries then in operation on the moor. The buildings were widely spaced from one another for safety and the mechanical power for grinding ("incorporating") the powder was derived from waterwheels driven by a leat.
Now known as "Powdermills" or "Powder Mills", there are extensive remains of this factory still visible. Two chimneys still stand and the walls of the two sturdily-built incorporating mills with central waterwheels survive well: they were built with substantial walls but flimsy roofs so that in the event of an explosion, the force of the blast would be directed safely upwards. The ruins of a number of ancillary buildings also survive. A proving mortar—a type of small cannon used to gauge the strength of the gunpowder—used by the factory still lies by the side of the road.
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