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Denford Mill over the River Kennet at Hungerford, Berks. I used my iPhone here because I was giving someone my undivided attention rather than lugging around my Z9!
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I went to high school at the height of punk. I loved the music, but to fit in I said I loved ELO.
In fact I loved ELO and punk. And disco. And lots more.
I can't remember who it was in my group of friends who taught us Bridge, but our form of rebellion was to retire to the physics labs and play very poor bridge.
It was there one afternoon that our form tutor, Mr Skeats, found us. And said that if we were going to play bridge, we had better learn the basics.
So, one lunchtime a week, he gave up his free time to teach us how to play. Slightly better.
We even invented a form of the game when there was just three of us, so keen were we to play this. Bridge surpassed Dungeons and Dragons as our game of choice.
Fast forward a decade and I joined the Royal Air Force, and games were an important part once basic and trade training were completed. We had an hour for lunch, and crew rooms were echo to the sound of dice being rolled for Uckers, or cards being dealt as played Hunt (Chase the Lady), Nom or Bridge.
Bridge requires four people who know how to play, and getting four in the sections I worked in whilst serving in the RAF was quite easy.
Outside of that, it proved to be impossible.
Almost.
One holiday in the Scottish Borders at a farm house, an Army Major his wife and son asked me to join in Bridge, and his withering comments to his wife as another contract crashed and burned stay with me to this day.
So. I can play bridge to an simple "rough" standard, but have not been able to play in the twenty years since I left the services in 2005.
And then a mail went out in our U3A group, that places in the Bridge group were open, so I applied and got in. They don't teach from scratch, but said they would be kind.
Bridge is a form of Whist wit "knobs on". A bidding phase before a card is played, helps inform your partner what you have in your hand, what they have in theirs, and for you to form a contract to make X many tricks with a suit as trumps or no trumps as a fifth choice.
Once the contract is made, the game is then like Whist, only that the person who made the contract plays both hands, with their partner laying their hand down on the table for all the see as a "dummy".
Scully vanished, so the plan to test her blood sugars every hour went out the window. Again. Tomorrow she will be shut in the porch so not to miss the tests.
Which meant I could go to the bridge, and Jools could go to her keep fit, hair cut and other appointments.
I dropped her off in town at eight. School run and rush hour are back, though Dover's own version of it. We made it just in time.
I drive back along Reach Road so to avoid the traffic at the Duke of York's roundabout, and because it would be pleasant.
Or would have been had the sun been shining and the wind not already touching 40 mp/h.
It was good to get home. make a brew and have breakfast. But already it was nearing time to leave.
The club usually have at least two tables going, and meets in member's houses. I have not been in many houses that have room for two tables in one room, not without removing all the furniture first.
This weeks host lives near Walmer Castle, so not far to drive, and traffic had died down by nine.
I was first to arrive, the host showed me in, and I saw at least one in the house was a photographers with prints covering two walls with at least four decades of shots.
The other six arrived, we shook hands as we were introduced. My brain immediately dump the names in the trash can, never to be recalled. But the host was called Yoko, and found I had no trouble remembering that.
Rules were gone over, and the plan for the day. Pre-dealt hands, bidding boxes showing the history for each game, and two tables, four chairs at each.
I remembered some, and won the first hand I won the bidding for, but later made a miscounting error on another.
So it goes.
Jools texts me to say she is on a train heading to Walmer, I reply that she get off at Martin Mill, and as the school was breaking up anyway, I made my excuses and left.
Doing a three point turn in the road, back onto the main road and the few miles through Ringwould to the crossroads, then down the hill to Martin Mill.
Three minutes later the train rolled in, and Jools got off.
Into the car and up the hill, crossing the Deal Road to home. Feed the cats and then think about dinner: Cornish pasties straight out of the wrapper with a big fresh brew.
The wind blew, clouds fled across the sky, but the four hours of thunder and lightning once again failed to happen. No matter how hard we stared at the storm radar.
I make fajitas again, as they went down so well last time, and as it was a booze day, poured one of the new beers: the Imperial Blond, and how well it went with the spicy food.
Again no football, just the wind dropping, but still blowing enough to make the curtains billow and knock the phone out of its cradle.
Jericho Cider Mill in Jericho, NY has awesome apple ciders and pies. #longisland #newyork #dailylife
Urbex Session : Paper Mill (DE) , 01.10.2012
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Regional Innovation Clusters: Advancing the Next Economy
September 23, 2010, 8:45am – 3:15pm
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/09/innovation_cluster/index.html
Join state and local policymakers, members of the Obama administration, and leaders from the business, academic, and philanthropic sectors for a conversation about the significance of regional innovation clusters to the future of the American economy.
Hear from CEOs and regional leaders who are leveraging the power of clusters—networks of interconnected, geographically concentrated businesses, and related actors in the same industries—to boost entrepreneurship and job growth. Also learn about new directions in federal policy aimed at tapping the potential of clusters to enhance regional and national economic performance.
Mill B is the trail to Lake Blanche off Big Cottonwood Canyon. The trail is fairly steep but the views at the top are amazing. Fall colors this particular year were exceptional.
Today was a rainy, dull day, with an occasional pause in the rain.While out running errands, I decided to stop by the Graue Mill. The water was quite high, with a very strong flow over the dam. The water had a great blue and gold contrast, just begging to be brought out by tweaking the contrast. It brings a welcome bit of color to this day.
A bit of the mills history:One summer morning in 1852, Fred Graue entered his mill and turned the wheel that opened the sluice gates outside. Water from Salt Creek rushed into the millrace and the wooden waterwheel began to turn for the first time. It would turn the machinery that would grind grain for the next seventy years. Today, Graue Mill is the only operating waterwheel gristmill in Illinois.
Frederick Graue was born in Germany, came to the United States and settled in Fullersburg, Illinois. He purchased land and began to build a waterwheel gristmill. It took five years to construct using bricks made from clay taken from the Graue farm and fired in a kiln near the site, and white oak timbers cut from a tract along the I & M canal near Lemont. The four huge one-ton buhrstones used for grinding were imported from the coast of France. The large gristmill was finished in 1852 and was used to grind the wheat, corn and other grains produced by local farmers.
The mill was a major center of economic life during the 19th century and was also used by Fred Graue to hide runaway slaves on their journey to freedom in Canada. President Abraham Lincoln reportedly visited Graue Mill during a trip from Chicago to Springfield. Three generations of the Graue family operated the mill for 60 years until modern milling methods rendered the old mill obsolete and the building was abandoned.
The building was eventually added to the properties of the DuPage County Forest Preserve District. In 1934, it was decided to restore the mill to the period of 1852-1868, the time the waterwheel was in operation. The restoration was completed in 1943 but was not maintained. In 1950, the mill property was leased to the DuPage Graue Mill Corporation, an organization formed by local residents, who repaired the waterwheel and gear system and opened the museum.
Graue Mill was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in May 1975. And in 1981 was recognized as an Illinois Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers -- the only gristmill so designated on a national or local level, representative of an important technology and era in the history of America.
2003 was the last year for Moreton Sugar Mill in Nambour (Queensland, Australia).
I organised a weeks worth of activity in the area for the LocoShed group, culminating in a mill visit and a large group BBQ at River Depot, on the banks of the Maroochy River.
For more information on the former tramways of the area see:
Maroochy Shire Tramways SIG on Facebook.
Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[1] and inspired the 2013 television series The Mill.
Location
Quarry Bank Mill is on the outskirts of Styal in Cheshire, abutting and to the south of Manchester Airport. The mill is on the bank of the River Bollin which provided water to power the waterwheels. It was connected by road to the Bridgewater Canal for transporting raw cotton from the port of Liverpool.[3] The site consisted of three farms or folds.
History
Samuel Greg leased land at Quarrell Hole on Pownall Fee from Lord Stamford, who imposed a condition that 'none of the surrounding trees should be pruned, felled or lopped´; maintaining the woodland character of the area. The factory was built in 1784 by Greg[4] to spin cotton. When Greg retired in 1832 it was the largest such business in the United Kingdom. The water-powered Georgian mill still produces cotton calico. The Gregs were careful and pragmatic, paternalistic millowners, and the mill was expanded and changed throughout its history. When Greg's son, Robert Hyde Greg, took over the business, he introduced weaving. Samuel Greg died in 1834.
The Mill was attacked during the Plug Plot riots on 10 August 1842.[5]
The mill's iron water wheel, the fourth to be installed, was designed by Thomas Hewes and built between 1816 and 1820. Overhead shafts above the machines were attached to the water wheel by a belt. When the wheel turned, the motion moved the belt and powered the machinery. A beam engine and a horizontal steam engine were subsequently installed to supplement the power. The Hewes wheel broke in 1904 but the River Bollin continued to power the mill through two water turbines. The mill owners bought a Boulton and Watt steam engine in 1810 and a few years later purchased another because the river's water level was low in summer and could interrupt production of cloth during some years. Steam engines could produce power all year round. Today the mill houses the most powerful working waterwheel in Europe, an iron wheel moved from Glasshouses Mill at Pateley Bridge designed by Sir William Fairbairn who had been Hewes' apprentice.
The estate surrounding the mill was developed and Greg converted farm buildings in Styal to house workers. As the mill increased in size, housing was constructed for the workers.[6] A chapel and a school were built by the Gregs who moved into Quarry Bank House next to the mill.
The estate and mill were donated to the National Trust in 1939 by Alexander Carlton Greg and are open to the public. The mill continued in production until 1959. In 2006 the National Trust acquired Quarry Bank House and its gardens and, in 2010, the gardener's house and the upper gardens.[7] In 2013 the mill received 130,000 visitors.[8] In 2013, the trust launched an appeal to raise £1.4 million to restore a worker's cottage, a shop and the Greg's glasshouses and digitise records relating to Gregs and the mill workers.[8]
Architecture
Quarry Bank is an example of an early, rural, cotton-spinning mill that was initially dependent on water power. The first mill was built by Samuel Greg and John Massey in 1784. Its design was functional and unadorned, growing out of the pragmatism of the men who felt no need to make a bold architectural statement.[9] It was a four-storey mill measuring 8.5 metres (28 ft) by 27.5 metres (90 ft), with an attached staircase, counting house and warehouse. It was designed to use water frames which had just come out of patent, and the increased supply of cotton caused by the cessation of the American War of Independence. The water wheel was at the north end of the mill.
The mill was extended in 1796 when it was doubled in length and a fifth floor added. A second wheel was built at the southern end. The mill was extended between 1817 and 1820 and a mansard-roofed wing extended part of the 1796 building forward beneath which the wheel was installed. The new building kept the 1784 detailing with respect to line and windows.[10] The 1784 mill ran 2425 spindles, after 1805 with the new wheel it ran 3452 spindles.[11]
Weaving sheds added in 1836 and 1838 were of two storeys and housed 305 looms.[12] Before the 1830s, spinning mills produced cotton, that was put-out to hand-loom weavers who worked in their own homes or small loom shops, like the one Greg owned at Eyam.[13] Hand-loom weaving continued in parallel to power loom weaving throughout the 19th century. Around 1830 the power loom became sufficiently viable for independent weaving sheds to be set up, and for larger owners to add weaving sheds to their spinning mills. A weaving shed needed the correct light and humidity and a floor that was stable enough to withstand the vibration caused by the picking of many looms. Quarry Bank Mill is of national significance in that it used two-storey side-lit buildings rather the a single storey sheds with a saw-tooth roof.[14] The first two-storey shed at Quarry Bank was 33 metres (108 ft) by 6.5 metres (21 ft). The 1838 building was 30 metres (98 ft) by 10 metres (33 ft) to which a storey was added in 1842 for warping and beaming. In the Gregs pragmatic way, looms were purchased gradually.[15]
Water power
The first wheel was a wooden overshot wheel taking water by means of a long leat from upstream on the River Bollin. The second wheel built by Peter Ewart in 1801 was wooden. To increase power he dammed the Bollin and took water into the mill directly, the tailrace leaving the river below the dam. The third wheel of 1807 was a replacement for one of the wooden wheels.[16] It is believed it was a suspension wheel, 8 metres (26 ft) in diameter made from iron to the design of Thomas Hewes.[11]
The fourth wheel, the Great Wheel was also designed by Hewes. The challenge was to increase the head of water acting on the wheel while using the same volume of water. It was achieved by sinking the wheel pit to below the level of the river and taking the tail race through a tunnel a kilometre downstream to rejoin the Bollin at Giant's Castle. This gave a head of 32 feet (9.8 m) acting on the 32 feet (9.8 m) diameter suspension wheel- which is 21 feet (6.4 m) wide. The Great Wheel operated from 1818 to 1871 when the mill pool had silted up, and then to 1904.[17]
In 1905 two water turbines built by Gilbert Gilkes and Company were installed to replace the Great Wheel. They used the same head and tail race and operated until 1959.[18] When the mill was restored in 1983, a 25 feet (7.6 m) diameter waterwheel of similar design to that of Hewes by his pupil Sir William Fairbairn, was moved from Glasshouses Mill in Pateley Bridge and installed to provide power to work the machinery.
Steam power
Water flow from the Bollin was unreliable so an auxiliary steam engine was procured in 1810.[16] It was a 10 hp beam engine from Boulton and Watt. In 1836 with the arrival of power looms a second 20 hp Boulton and Watt beam engine was acquired. The first horizontal condensing engine was acquired in 1871. A new engine house was built. In 1906 the 1871 engine was replaced by a second-hand 60 hp engine.[19] The engines no longer exist and the museum has purchased a similar steam engine to display.
Apprentice system
The Apprentice House
Quarry Bank Mill employed child apprentices, a system that continued until 1847. The last child to be indentured started work in 1841. The first children apprentices lived in lodgings in the neighbourhood then in 1790 Greg built the Apprentice House near the factory.[20] Greg believed he could get the best out of his workers by treating them fairly. He hired a superintendent to attend to their care and morals and members of the Greg family and external tutors gave them lessons.[20] Greg employed Peter Holland, father of the Royal Physician Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet and uncle of Elizabeth Gaskell, as mill doctor. Holland was responsible for the health of the children and other workers, and was the first doctor to be employed in such a capacity. The apprentices were children from workhouses. Initially, they were brought from Hackney and Chelsea but by 1834 they came mostly from neighbouring parishes or Liverpool poorhouses.[20] They worked long days with schoolwork and gardening after their shift at the mill. The work was sometimes dangerous, with fingers sometimes being severed by the machines.[21] Children were willing to work in the mill because life at a workhouse was even worse.[22]
Mill community
The sparse accommodation that existed when the Gregs built the mill was soon exhausted and Greg built plain cottages which were rented to his workers. Each house had a parlour, kitchen and two bedrooms, an outside privy and a small garden. Rent was deducted from the workers' wages.[20] Greg, like Robert Owen, who built New Lanark attempted to bring the structured order of a country village to his new industrial centres. He built Oak School to educate the children and the Norcliffe Chapel where the villagers worshipped and held a Sunday school.
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The mill was erected c1820 by millwright Robert Barnes of Great Yarmouth. It was disused in 1883 but later put back to work. The mill was worked by wind until 1956. Her owners, the Somerleyton Estate were keen to ensure that she was preserved. East Suffolk County Council agreed in principle that the mill should be preserved, and approached the Ministry of Works who agreed to pay half the cost of the restoration. Most of the rest of the money came from East Suffolk County Council and the Suffolk Preservation Society, with smaller amounts from other groups
Dating back to 1782 this is one of the oldest standing mills in Scotland. Last known production was shoe laces and insoles although now the building stands fire damaged and in a state of ruin
"Pearl Mills" , Oatmeal Mills, Coralville, Iowa. ca1900?
Source: State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City
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Cromford Mill was Sir Richard Arkwright's first and most important cotton mill, at which he pioneered the development of his water frame spinning machine and revolutionised the manufacture of cloth, thereby laying one of the cornerstones of the Industrial Revolution.
Arkwright began his career in the Nottingham area, but in 1771 he and his partners moved to Derbyshire to take advantage of the potential water-power available from the streams and rivers there. Cromford was chosen and the water from Bonsall Brook and Cromford Sough (a lead-mine drain) were utilised. A disadvantage of Cromford was poor communications and it was not until the opening of the Cromford Canal in 1793 that Arkwright had a cheap and easy way of transporting both raw materials and finished goods to and from the site.
The first mill here was built in 1771 and a further one added in 1776. Arkwright developed further patents and the mills were extended until 1791, when they reached their greatest extent. By 1840 the mill was out of date and had been overtaken by the steam-powered mills in Lancashire and the Masson Mill upstream. The second mill was burnt down in 1890 and only the original mill survives, along with some secondary buildings such as the Counting House.
The building was derelict when the Arkwright Society acquired it in 1979 and approximately 3 million has been spent restoring it, a process which is still ongoing. The mill is now part of the Derwent Valley World Heritage site - the valley has an unrivalled collection of early cotton mills.
This was one of a group of three tower mills to the north of the village, the others being Brook ‘s mill and the ‘Subscription Mill’. This latter mill had a tablet on it inscribed “This mill is the equal property of subscribers 1805. Both rich and poor a friend will find, who standeth here their corn to grind.”
It was pulled down in 1921. Maw’s mill was built c.1820 and went out of use c.1915. It stood a long way off the road and when the track up to it was impassable by wagons the grain had to be carried by pack horses, which helped to cause its early abandonment. It stood, increasingly, derelict, until 1962, when following the fall of one sail the others were removed, together with the cap frame.
It had four patent sails. Much of the machinery survived in the tower, despite the efforts of vandals to set fire to it. On the ground floor were two fireplaces, with the flues passing through the wall to emerge outside at second floor level.
This is a bit of a departure for me really - I generally don't post process to this extent.
Anyhow, I thought the subject warranted a go at an antique type image. This is Alderford Mill in Sible Headingham, Essex, UK, the earliest reference to the mill dating back to 1597. See www.siblehedingham.com/mills.htm
Apologies to all my Flickr buddies for the absence (work, travel and so on), I am back (for a while) and will be visiting your images!
Took this one on the way home from Whitley Bay yesterday morning...it's of the old R. Hood Haggies rope mill on Ropery Lane, Willington Quay. The buildings to the right are the Bridon mills which are in use today producing steel cables...there is a local legend that the old mill is haunted by 'Kitty The Mill Ghost'...Google it, it's a canny little tale...
Stoneywood Mill was founded in 1770, and the ownership has changed many times. The current owner is Arjowiggins who have their head offices based at Issy in Paris, and have three other paper mills in the UK at Dartford (founded 1588), Chartham (founded 1738) and Ivybridge (founded 1787), with many mills throughout France and Europe.
Recently in the local papers:
Workers at the north-east’s last surviving paper mill have been warned that nearly 50 jobs are under threat.
Stoneywood Mill bosses told staff yesterday that a consultation is to be launched to discuss the potential loss of 48 jobs at the Bucksburn plant.
Stoneywood will soon be the only remaining paper mill in the north-east. Production has been stopped at the Davidson Mill in Mugiemoss, the Donside Mill in Tillydrone and Culter Mill.
And International Paper’s Inverurie plant will be shut down at the end of this month [March 2009] after a 90-day consultation failed to find a buyer.
nrhp # 16000678- The Warren Mill is a historic textile mill complex at South Carolina Highway 421 and Trestle Pass (County Road P-1201) in Warrenville, South Carolina. It consists of a main four-story brick building, to which a number of one and two-story additions have been made. It was built in 1896-98 to a design by William B. Smith Whaley, a regionally prominent architect of industrial properties. The Warren Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1896, and operated on the premises until 1919, when it was acquired by the Graniteville Mill Company. It operated the plant until its closure in 1982.[2]
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1] In September 2023, construction began to convert the mill into an apartment community, repurposing the existing structure and also retaining the two steel water towers and the brick chimney.
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Another quick test fitting of the y-axis table. The sleeve bearings with the cut guide rods and braces in place. All seems to slide nice and smooth.
The blank for the x-z-axis is visible in the background.
The tolerances are pretty tight, here, and I'm worried I might get glue where it's not suppose to be!
las tripulaciones del mill team preparándose para la segunda etapa.
p.s.: como hecho curioso, podemos apuntar que todos quienes integraban el team (están todos en la foto) terminaron la prueba en muy buena posición. los mejores fueron el dr. giubi (saludando) y su copiloto (a sus espaldas) quienes ganaron la clase 7, reservada para coches de hasta 2000cc. aspirados y tracción simple (clase 7 FIA).
en la foto, entre otros, a la izquierda, héctor omar "negro" risso (múltiple ganador del transchaco rally), al lado está oscar ramírez (ganador del transchaco rally).
The Mill Inn near Lancaster was our home for two days on our trip. The building was originally called Thurnham Mill and owned by the Canal Company. It sits beside the Glasson branch of the Lancaster Canal. The branch was completed in 1826, six years after the main canal in 1819
Fisher mill on Chiligo creek, Fisher Mills, a former hamlet in Hespeler, in the city of Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario. The original grist mill and dam were built by Jacob Fisher in 1843. In 1871 the mill was the largest in Waterloo township. In 1888 the mill was dismantled and moved to Birtle Manitoba, Joseph Shantz built a new mill on the old foundation here in1890. His son A. J. Shantz became the owner in 1932. A. J. Shantz converted the mill from water power to diesel and operated it as a feed mill. He sold it to Howard Cressman in 1970 when he retired.The mill operations closed in 1990. A. J. Shantz had also owned the Blackbridge mill for 22 years. The dam was demolished in 2000 but the mill building still remains as a private residence. It has recently been sold and now also caters to meetings, banquets and event planning including gardens for pictures much like the Klages mill in Chesley. Fisher is a common name for historic mills in Ontario:- There are the three Fisher mills in Paisley, the Fisher Mill ruins in Dundas and this one in Cambridge.
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Carter County. The Mill Iron-area directory can be found at the junction of the Mill Iron and Webster roads (east of Ekalaka). In the background, the old Mill Iron Store can be seen; it has been heavily-vandalized since closing in the mid-1990's. Mill Iron was named for the Mill Iron Ranch in Texas (in the 1880's, the Mill Iron Ranch brought herds of cattle to Montana for summer grazing). A Mill Iron post office opened in 1916 (July 29) on a local ranch with William Meyer as postmaster. Except for a four-month break that ended in 1920 (February 17), the Mill Iron post office was active until 1986 (March 12), when service was suspended according to USPS records. It is listed as being officially closed in 1994 (January 1).