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April 18th, 1987 - Healey Mills
Class 37 37135 (TE)
This engine eventually became 37888 and survived until 2007 after spending a couple of years in Spain as L31. Ref 14-01
Bird's Mill and the adjacent hydro plant are well over 100 years old. The plant was built in 1892 to supply the town of Bracebridge with electricity. Two years later, it became the Province's first municipally-owned hydro plant.
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June 22nd 1975
Healey Mills - How it used to be!
The height of the "blue" era with Class 31s 31196 (IM), 31225 (FP) and 31108 (FP) taking a weekend rest. Two unidentified shunters are also visible.
It was always easy to walk down the side of the yard and see what was on shed - the downside being that the sun was directly in front making photography from this angle poor.
Also on shed that day were 31242, 40169, 40073, 40199, 40051, 37098, 37192, 40036, 37096, 37101, 47308, 25065, 47049 and 40044. Passing on ballast train was 40039
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Photographs of the Macclesfield Canal showing working boats are scarce and I have been seeking a view of a boat associated with the fireclay traffic for some time. The best I have managed so far is this newspaper photograph from 1934 which was taken from Sugar Lane bridge in Adlington looking toward the Clarence Mill in Bollington. If you look closely at the canal near to the chimney it appears that there is a boat there, probably bringing in coal for the boilers. Nearer to the camera is a boat at the wharf for the Clarence fireclay mine operated by John Hall & Son (Dukinfield) Limited which supplied their works in Dukinfield with up to six 18 ton boatloads of clay per week. Clay, and a small amount of coal, was brought from the mine off in the fields to the left in tubs and tipped down chutes into the boat. The boat is most likely to be named "Benefactor" as this was a regular on this run at the time. The mine closed in 1938.
S A Mills commenced operations in Evercreech in February 1970 with one minibus and went into partnership with J M Mills from February 1973 when the PSV fleet expanded to two.
OYB262L was a Ford Transit / Strachans B16F new to Hulberts of Yeovil in January 1973 , seen here in July 1977 , having been acquired by Mills , Evercreech in February 1977.
( R G Hulbert of Yeovil bought a large number of mainly new minibuses . The business had been started by his father A G Hulbert in February 1964. In 1987 Alan Graham and A J & K M Male bought the business and continued to trade as Hulbert & Son . In December 1999 they also bought Wakes Services ( Sparkford ) Ltd and merged the two businesses in a new company , South West Coaches Ltd , which is still owned by the Grahams with nearly 100 vehicles .)
I made the most of my outing today stopped by the red mill in Albertville. I was hoping to find the 227 up and running but it was barely a trickle, but the red mill is always a reliable place to shoot.
Healan Mill is located in Lula, GA near the Hall/Habersham County line. The mill is fenced off, and there are hopes that it will soon be restored.
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Lantz Mill is located outside of Edinburg in Shenandoah County, Virginia. According to the mill's website, it was originally built around 1813. Burned during the Civil War in 1864, the current structure was rebuilt in 1866. It operated well into the 20th Century, serving as a feed mill in its final years. The mill is being restored by its current owners and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Johnson Mill in north Charlotte, NC,also known as the NoDa district along North Davidson Street. This mill, built in 1913, was slated for conversion to apartments but I think the economy caught up to them. Lots of threatening signs and fencing, even razor wire in many parts.
From a different house (or doorstep), another simple bootscraper. I think it's time they had a revival, as they're really useful...
This historic flour mill was built in 1860 by a mill engineer from Devonshire, John Dunn (1802 ~1894).
The giant ‘pitchback’ waterwheel known as the ‘Old Rumbler’ was manufactured in Scotland and brought out in pieces and assembled here. It weighs 26.4 tonne and is an imposing 11.27 meters in diameter and required 30,000 litres of water each minute to drive it..
The water came from Cox’s Creek which rises near Uraidla and was diverted to form a dam located just over the railway line towards Aldgate.
The Bridgewater Mill had its opening celebrations on 1st January, 1861 when John Dunn entertained over 100 employees, families and friends. It was one of the states’ finest flour mills and was the only one driven by water. In addition, a steam generation plant was built to take over in summer, when Cox’s Creek ran dry.
Bridgewater Mill Flour won first prize in the International Exhibition in London in 1862 and for many years was transported all over Australia.
In the latter half of the 19th Century the manufacture of flour was one of South Australia’s earliest successful industries and Mount Barker was the main wheat growing district in the state.
As people returned from the Victorian gold fields with money and ambition, flour milling became an attractive investment and by 1870 there were fourteen mills within the district, all competing for trade which could have effectively been handled by 4 or 5 mills.
The Bridgewater Mill was only one of two mills which were constantly in production and continued to work at full pressure until the northern wheat areas opened up in the 1870s and 1880s. Mills were then established at more northerly and convenient locations such as John Dunn’s mill at Port Pirie, Wilmington and Port Augusta.
After this northern shift, Bridgewater reduced production to suit local market requirements and after the closure of Dunn & Co. in 1899 went through a myriad of ownership and activity until the wheel ground to a halt in 1942 when a pinion broke.
The building was further used until 1961 when Hamilton Ewell Vineyards Ltd. Used it as a bond store for the maturation of locally made brandy and whisky.
In 1984 Petaluma Wines purchased the mill and its surrounds and undertook renovation to restore the grand old building and its waterwheel.
In February 2015 Warren & Nicolla Randall purchased the mill and its surrounds and have plans for further improvements including new decking, a wine and coffee lounge and opening for dinners.
Today the mill as an important Adelaide Hills attraction. The restaurant is considered one of the country’s finest, and sitting proud along the Heysen Trail the water wheel is the most photographed land mark in the hills.
The Heysen Trail is a long distance walking trail in South Australia. It runs from Parachilna Gorge, in the Flinders Ranges via the Adelaide Hills to Cape Jervis on the Fleurieu Peninsula and is approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) in length.
Pitchback Water Wheel Design
The Pitchback Water Wheel Design is a variation on the overshot waterwheel as it also uses the gravitational weight of the water to help rotate the wheel, but it also uses the flow of the waste water below it to give an extra push. This type of waterwheel design uses a low head infeed system which provides the water near to the top of the wheel from a pentrough above.
Unlike the overshot waterwheel which channelled the water directly over the wheel causing it to rotate in the direction of the flow of the water, the pitchback waterwheel feeds the water vertically downwards through a funnel and into the wheel just below the top causing the wheel to rotate in the opposite direction to the flow of the water above.
Just like the overshot wheel, the gravitational weight of the water in the buckets causes the wheel to rotate but in the opposite direction. As the angle of rotation nears the bottom of the wheel, the water inside the bucket empties out below and the empty bucket continues around the rotating wheel as before until it gets back up to the top again ready to be filled with more water and the cycle repeats. The difference this time is that this waste water flows away in the direction of the rotating wheel (as it has nowhere else to go), similar to the undershot waterwheel principal. Then the pitchback waterwheel uses the energy of the water twice, once from above and once from below to rotate the wheel around
its central axis.
The advantage of this is that the efficiency of the waterwheel design is greatly increased to over 80% of the waters energy as it is driven by both the weight of the incoming water and by the force or pressure of water directed into the buckets from above, as well as the flow of the waste water below. The disadvantage though of an pitchback waterwheel is that it needs a slightly more complex water supply arrangement directly above the wheel called the “pentrough”.
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Met up with a group of friends down at Lumsdale to get some photos, then we moved on to Richard Arkwrights Mill, a fascinating place and well worth a visit.
The Australian Paper Mills Co. (APM) was established in 1895, originally located on the site of what is now Southbank. The company expanded, with its main mills in Melbourne and Geelong. In August 1918 land for a new board mill was purchased in Fairfield, comprising 23 acres (9.3 hectares), which had the advantages of river frontage and proximity to the railway line.2 The site, previously a part of the Woodlands Estate, cost £14,800. Construction on the building began in 1919, taking two years and using 1,200,000 bricks.-5 The building was opened by the Chief Justice of Victoria, Sir William Irvine, on 31 August 1921.
The General Manager of APM, Robert Gray, travelled to America to purchase equipment for the new factory, which was able to manufacture paperboard of 244cm in width at a speed of 150 feet (460 metres) a minute. The completed factory manufactured container board, ticket board, manila, chip board and varieties of woodpulp board.4
The Boiler House—built to contain boilers and turbines—was constructed in 1954. The building was designed by Mussen, Mackay & Potter: Mackay was the architect, whilst Mussen and Potter were the engineers. Norman Mussen was the son of Gerald Mussen, a financial journalist and a consultant to Amalgamated Zinc (De Bavays) Ltd (AZ Ltd), who was involved in APM's moves to establish eucalyptus plantations for pulp in Tasmania in the 1930s.
The curtain walling cladding the five-storey building is one of the earliest examples of the technique known in Victoria. The earliest buildings incorporating curtain walling were the Cheseborough building in Clayton (Hugh Peck & Associates; 1953), which had a curtain walled staircase; the Shell Refinery, Corio (Buchan Laird & Buchan; 1953), which had a two-storey curtain wall; Wilson Hall at the University of Melbourne (Bates Smart & McCutcheon; 1953); the administration block for Kirstall-Repco at Clayton (Hassell & McConnell; 1954); and the Coring Implements factory (Frank Heath; 1954).
Significance
The Australian Paper Mills Boiler House is of state technological and architectural significance.
The building employs one of earliest known examples of curtain walling in Melbourne, and is distinguished by the extent of the curtain walling, which is equivalent in height to a four or five storey building.
A nice post-sunset glow illuminates Healey Mills as 37503 rests in the yard with a rail train from Castleton. 13th June 1996.
A weaving mill, now converted to house Stroud district council.
You can imagine the amount of council tax that needs to incinerated to keep the place warm for our dear public servants.
Jackson's Mill, outside of Jane Lew, Lewis County, West Virginia
Jackson's Mill is a former grist mill in Lewis County, West Virginia, near the city of Weston. The mill, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, is now the centerpiece of a state-owned museum property. It is significant as a well-preserved early grist mill, and as the boyhood home of Stonewall Jackson, a renowned Confederate general in the American Civil War.
After Edward's death, his son, Cummins Jackson, operated Jackson's Mill. A brother Jonathan Jackson (1790–1826), had been working as an attorney in Clarksburg, where he had a family. After his death in 1826 from typhoid fever, his widow Julia Neale Jackson (1789–1831) struggled to support their two young children. In 1830, she arranged for the Jackson children, 6-year-old Thomas Jonathan and his younger sister Laura Ann, to live with their paternal uncle Cummins Jackson. Julia died the following year, leaving her children orphaned and dependent on their uncle.
Young Thomas helped around his uncle's farm, tending sheep with a sheep dog, driving teams of oxen, and helping to harvest wheat and corn. His uncle also held a few slaves. Formal education was not easily obtained, but Thomas attended school when and where he could. After learning to read, he became largely self-taught. He would often sit up at night reading by the flickering light of burning pine knots. He would become renowned as a Confederate general, Stonewall Jackson, during the Civil War.
The story is told that Thomas Jackson once made a deal with one of his uncle's slaves to provide him with pine knots in exchange for reading lessons. Virginia law prohibited teaching slaves to read or write, but young Jackson taught the man as promised. In his later years at Jackson's Mill, Jackson served as a schoolteacher.
In 1842, young Thomas Jackson received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. After graduation, he served as an instructor at Virginia Military Institute. During the American Civil War, he advanced in the Confederate Army to the rank of general, and died in 1863 in the Battle of Chancellorsville. He had been fatally wounded in a "friendly fire" incident.
In 1921 the owners of the property at Jackson's Mill deeded it to the State of West Virginia. In modern times, the preserved grist mill of Cummins Jackson is the centerpiece of a historical site and museum at the Jackson's Mill Center for Lifelong Learning and State 4-H Camp. The facility, located in Weston, West Virginia, serves as a special campus for West Virginia University (WVU) and the WVU Extension Service.
Restored mill at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, County Clare, Ireland.
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For more info click here: The Folk Park adjoins the castle and aims to show what everyday life was like in rural Ireland about 100 years ago. It contains reconstructed farmhouses, cottages and shops, and care has been taken to make them as authentic as possible, particularly with regard to furnishings.
The Park is a living museum : animals are tended, bread is baked, milk is churned, walls are whitewashed and roofs are thatched. You may visit an Irish farmhouse, watch the blacksmith fit a horseshoe, attend a weaving demonstration, and bake and eat scones at the local tea house.
Completed in 1886 for Christian Koch, the Tower Mill in Dukinfield was designed by Potts, Pickup & Dixon. It had a capacity of 44,000 mule spindles and 5,000 twiner spindles. On Koch's death in 1895 the mill passed to The River & Tower Mills Co (Ltd in c1912). Ring spinning was introduced from 1930 and the mill ended cotton spinning in 1955 by when it contained 13,000 mule spindles and 24,000 ring spindles. It has had a range of uses since then and is currently empty and for sale.
Walking through Mill Wood and along Dean Brook close to the village of Hurst Green, in the Ribble Valley of Lancashire is always a treat with the ever changing colours of the seasons, this capture is in summer and the woods are full of fantastic greens.
After selling his land in Robbinsville, Johnny Hyde moved to Rube Rogers' old farm and built Hyde's Mill in 1850. Since he was the first to employ the creek, his surname was applied, rendering Hyde's Creek.
Also on the same property are a water-powered generator (not pictured, right of frame) and a blacksmith's workshop (not pictured, left of frame).
Single shot.
A buddy of mine was asking if I had any thoughts about how to mill flutes and have the cut start or stop with a nice tapered end. I had the idea of rigging up some kind of cam to ramp the cutter into and/or out of the cut. I just did a little experiment using a tilt table as my cam. It works!!!
Le pont menant à l'entrée de l'un des moulin à papier de Couze-St-Front.
Straight ahead, the entrance of one of the paper mills in Couze-St-Front (France).
The old mill, now a private residence, was a working mill until WWI. It is made up of three parts, the mill itself built across a creek, built in 1800 – 1832, the mill store, built in 1800 – 1832 on brick piers and the oldest part, an attached windmill, built in 1720 – 1740. Barges could be brought up to the mill for transporting the milled goods away around the coast.
The mill operated two ten foot wheels, one set higher than the other to make full use of the stream feed and the tide, which was kept behind tide gates.
The black windmill is a distinctive feature of the landscape, its tarred outer skin resilient to the full force of the coastal weather.