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57312 ‘Solway Princess’ heads North past Slitting Mill UWC, with 1Z56 06.23 Coventry - Harrogate 'Northern Belle' excursion on 23rd April 16. (pole)
Buttrum's Mill was built in 1836 by John Whitmore, the Wickham Market millwright, replacing an earlier post mill. The mill was run for many years by the Trott family, for whom it was built, and later by the Buttrum family.[2]
It worked by wind until 11 October 1928. The shutters were removed from the sails in 1934 and stored in the mill. The mill was bought at auction in 1937 by Mr Kenney, a mill enthusiast. The fantail was blown off in the 1940s, damaging the cap.[2] A lease on the mill was granted to East Suffolk County Council in 1950. The council aimed to preserve an example of each main type of windmill.[3] The derelict mill was restored from 1952 by Thomas Smithdale and Sons, the Acle, Norfolk millwrights for East Suffolk County Council.[4] The work, costing £4,000 was completed in 1954. It was part funded by the Pilgrim Trust.[3] The wrought iron gallery round the cap was replaced with a wooden one. A new cap and fantail was built.[2] The fantail was damaged in a gale in December 1966 and in 1973 a new stock and sail were fitted.[3] In the late 1970s, further restoration work was carried out by Millwrights International Ltd. A new cap was craned onto the mill in 1982 and new sails were fitted in 1984.[2]
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For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.
Buttrum's Mill is a six storey tower mill with an ogee cap with a gallery.[4] The tower is 20 feet 6 inches (6.25 m) diameter internally at the base and 11 feet (3.35 m) diameter at curb level. It is 48 feet (14.63 m) high to the curb.[3] The brickwork is 23 inches (580 mm) thick at the base. The mill stands 61 feet (18.59 m) to the finial, the tallest surviving mill in Suffolk.[2] The cap is winded by a six bladed fantail.[3] The four Patent sails of 70 feet (21.34 m) span are carried on a cast iron windshaft as is the cast iron brake wheel with wooden cogs. This drives a cast iron wallower carried on the cast iron upright shaft. The wallower can be disengaged from the brake wheel to allow the mill to be driven by auxiliary power. Lower down the upright shaft a cast iron crown wheel drives auxiliary machinery via layshafts. The cast iron great spur wheel drives four pairs of 4 feet (1.22 m) diameter overdrift millstones.[2] Two of the four pairs of millstones are controlled by a single governor. The mill is unusual in having a speaking tube connecting the floors.[3] One of the pairs of sails is shorter than the other pair.[
In the shadow of Mount Pleasant,..., is Woodson's Mill, located near Lowesville, Virginia in Nelson County, is a working water powered grist mill that dates back to the late 1700's. It was operated for many years by Dr. Julian Belmont Woodson, a medical doctor and five term State Senator representing Amherst and Nelson Counties. It became known as "Woodson's Mill" and the name was retained by its current owner and operator, J. Gill Brockenbrough, Jr. He purchased the mill in 1983 and restored it to its current state.
Rebuilt in 1793,
The building is a fine specimen of the 'mellow brick' architecture which is one of the beauties of Tewkesbury and is now a Grade II listed building
The new owners intended to restore the historic hotel, but found that the structure was unsalvageable. They demolished it in late 1968 (but saved the ironwork and cornices to reinstall)[6] and built a 217-room replica with a largely faithful facade, only increased from five to seven stories. A three-story, brick building to the south (111 Meeting Street) was also razed to make way for a side entrance to the new hotel and a garden area.
The original 79-foot iron balcony across the front was replaced with a 75-foot version, and some changes were made to the window cornices (the cornices on the first two floors were cast from originals, but upper floors received different cornices that the original).
Plainwell is a small city in southwest Michigan between Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. This fine old mill with a bright red roof sits along the rail line, now operated by the Grand Elk Railroad. I took this photo on September 25, 2015 when Marsha and I stopped for ice cream on our way to Saugatuck.
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British Railways 0-6-0 class 08 diesel-electric locomotive number 08305 of Healey Mills Traction Maintenance Depot passes the site of Locke’s Siding signal box in Normanton on the Up L. & Y. line hauling a British Railways 16 Ton mineral wagon. Saturday 14th May 1983
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Note, 08305 was built at British Railways’ Derby works in 1957 as number D3375, being renumbered 08305 in February 1974
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All grouted, but boy does it need lots of clean up. I can't believe how much glue I have to scrape off!
10 x 10 inches framed, stained glass, millefiori, and pebbles
Time doesn't wait for any of us, so finding artefacts in old abandoned buildings is always a bonus!
The label reads 'Brammer V belting' and is from one of the many belts still attached to the belt and cog driven machines in this derelict Tentering Mill/Dyeworks in Somerset.
This is a footbridge crossing Mill creek in Mill Creek Park. The selection for the topic of this week's Assignment: Click!, black and white. This is not a converted picture but one that was shot in BW.
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CN's Track PD10 in the Pointe St-Charles area of Montreal served a P&H mill till approximately June 2023. Condos are expected to replace it.
Wansbrough Paper Mill in Watchet closed on Christmas Eve, 170 people have lost their jobs.
The mill has been operating for around 250 years.
This is the mill of Hurricane Mills. Today, this area is much better known as being part of the Loretta Lynn Dude Ranch, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the state.
This mill, and other historic spots nearby are on the National Register of Historic Places listed as the "Hurricane Mills Rural Historic District." According to a plaque across the river from the mill, this mill and dam were built by James T. Anderson in 1896. "Though wool was carded here, grain processing predominated, corn meal and flour were shipped through the south."
In the mid 60's, Loretta and Mooney Lynn purchased the 1876 mansion across the street from the river. Over the next few years, they preserved many of the nearby buildings and commercially opened the area as the dude ranch. Today, you can take a tour of the area, or just walk around some of the places, like I did. The mill's water wheel was removed and placed nearby.
Today, the mill serves two purposes. First, it is one of three gift shops on the ranch. Second, it is opened as the "Loretta Lynn Doll and Fan Museum"
Unfortunately, the Middle Tennessee May 2010 floods were not kind to Hurricane Mills. Just a few feet downstream from the mill (and would have been viewable in this picture), there was an iron bridge built in 1911 that used to carry highway TN13 (but had been replaced by a newer bridge) was completely washed away. I can't find any confirmation of this, but I suspect the mill suffered much damage as well as it looks like the exterior is almost completely rebuilt with new wood in 2010. (If you find any pre-flood picture, the mill is painted a deep red, and my 2010 photo looks like all new wood then. In this 2020 photo, the wood shows 10 years of age.)
BNSF ES44DC No. 7496 rests quietly at the west end of Track 44 at KCT's Mill St. Yard. This was the sole power for BNSF train U-HKMKCK0-01T, which brought 75 empty gondolas to be loaded with scrap by Advantage Metals. The BNSF crew brought the train up to 30th St., where they handed the train off to crew of KCTL train Y-217. 4/23/22.
Robert Owen (1771 – 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He is known among other things for efforts to improve his factory's working conditions, promoting experimental socialistic communities, and proposing a more collective approach to child rearing, including government control of education
He became wealthy in the early 1800s as an investor and eventual manager of the textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland,now restored as a museum and heritage centre,
( thanks to RBH for mill owner photo and Bing for background photo )
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The odd retailer Mill End, which billed itself as the "World's Most Unusual Store,"closed in (I believe) 2006 and the building was razed in 2012.
Shortly after some modern lofts and commercial development was built on the site and the Mill End name (and original sign) was kept.
6.9.2026.
North Everton mill and the millers house.
The mill was built in 1813 but I think the house is a later addition.
Lightning strikes behind Mill Creek in Hampton as a storm rolls through Hampton Roads on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2019. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
Looking east down the nave to the chancel all built on land given by local landowner Jane Elwes of nearby Walland Cary estate, between 1869 and 1870,
- Church of St Anne, Buck's Mills Devon
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Heygates flour mill and the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal. Tring, Hertfordshire, 17th April 2006.
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Located in the community of Bunker Hill in Berkeley County, West Virginia, the Bunker Hill Mill was built around 1800 and operated until 1963. Today it is a point of interest on the Washington Heritage Trail, which travels through the three counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The trail's website indicates that the first mill built on the site dates to 1738. The water wheel is out of view on the left side of the building.