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Had a chance to spend some time building on my CNC router this weekend.
Got the x-axis installed and hooked up to the controller. So now I have two axis working smoothly. Nice!
Next step is to build the z-axis and router mount.
I've got about 5 total hours into this thing, only in 20 minute intervals over some number or months!
Had occasion to go to the new Bunnings (I hate Bunnings with a passion) on Saturday and noticed some uncommissioned artwork on an old building that waspart of the Allied Mills Flour Mill or the Toowoomba Foundry, parts of which were destroyed in the floods of 2010. I returned early Sunday morning, without the presence of any carpark lunacy to grab a few shots.
Three Flickrites appeared, cameras in hand for an informal meet up. The weather was perfect! More coming as the week unfolds...
The Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine is one of the largest and finest working examples of its type. Built over 100 years ago, this mammoth metal powerhouse was regarded as a feat of industrial engineering. Churning out a massive 2,500 horse power to feed the ever hungry machinery of Trencherfield Mill, it played an instrumental role in Wigan’s industrial development.
At Stanley Mill, Stanley, Perthshire. Former Textile mill restored by Scottish Heritage. 31st July 2013. Taken on Diana Mini on Agfa Vista 200 C-41 negative film processed & scanned by ASDA using Fujifim scanner
This guy plopped my new mill on the sidewalk easy peasy pudding and pie. Getting it through the door took a lot more effort. Read more about it on the Bantam blog: www.bantambicycles.com
This has been a winter of dustings. Another last night. I was able to get out early before the temperature rose and the snow fell from the trees. The mill village of Harrisville, NH is one of favorite spots in any season.
Mill Street is one of the few spots to survive Warwick’s Great Fire (1694) undamaged.This fire caused damage to much of the area and cost the town around 100,000 pounds. Today, Mill Street is a residential street that retains some of the town’s medieval architecture. The houses were built mostly with timber-frames in the style of the Tudors. The Tudor period lasted from the late 1400s through the 1600s.
Three Mills,
London.
TAKEN - 3.58p.m Mon 7th Jun'21
The Three Mills are former working mills and an island of the same name on the River Lea. It is one of London’s oldest extant industrial centres. The mills lie in the London Borough of Newham; and, despite lying on the Newham side of the Lea, access is principally from the western, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, side of the river.
Mill City Museum explores the rich history of Minneapolis, in the Riverfront district. @Meet Minneapolis
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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A more conventional view of Jill Mill than the ones I posted earlier. Jack and Jill are a pair of 19th century windmills on the South Downs near Clayton in Sussex. Jill has been fully restored and is in working order.
An old abandoned mill building located just outside Tullyally Derry/Londonderry Northern Ireland, I really loved the moody aptmosphere and tried a variety of different angled shots
Portland Mills Covered Bridge - Greene, Indiana.
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This retaining wall uses Buechel Stone's Mill Creek Outcroppings. Ref: Mill Creek Outcroppings. Visit www.buechelstone.com/shoppingcart/products/Mill-Creek-Out... for more information.
Mill and Covere Bridge
Bollinger Mill State Park, MO
This was originally from a print (film) and then converted to digital and post processed in Topaz
Title: Dorchester Lower Mills
Creator: City of Boston
Date: 1955
Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009
File name: 5000_009_1150
Rights: Copyright City of Boston
Citation: Public Works Department photograph collection, Collection 5000.009, City of Boston Archives, Boston
The 08.53 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads eases into the unusual layout at this delightful Somerset station which now boasts the only semaphore signals on the national network in the county 10/7
Milling head can be mounted directly on the cross slide or it can be mounted indirectly via its own dedicated topslide which can position it at any angle anywhere on the cross slide.
This old mill is located on HWY 441 just outside of Cherokee, NC in the Great Smoky Mountains. Sadly, the operator passed away last winter and they did not grind grain this summer. The mill was open selling antiques this season, but the owner is planning to retire and thinks he has a buyer.
It was only slightly overcast. The sun was right above the mill and there was about 4 stops in exposure between the mill and the water. I tried a HDR to even it all out. The wind was blowing hard and that made the trees look a bit funny. I hope to re-shoot this one at a later date.
Looking down Machine Shop D5, the section dedicated to Milling & Drilling. The large overhead crane stands beneath the roof ironwork.
Taken during what is likely to be the last open day hosted at Wabtec's Doncaster Works before closure comes in December 2026.
20-06-2026
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The Chesapeake Mill lies in the heart of Hampshire. An extraordinary Grade II* listed building that has both a fascinating and unique history.
The Chesapeake Mill is a watermill in Wickham, Hampshire, England. The mill was designed and constructed in 1820 using the timbers of HMS Chesapeake, which had previously been the United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake. Chesapeake had been captured by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon during the War of 1812. John Prior paid the sum of £500 for the timbers sold at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard. The interior of the mill was designed around the dimensions of the deck beams. The mill remained in operation until 1976.
Today the mill offers a fantastic shopping experience, a world of great style and unique treasures. An eclectic mix of antiques, home furnishings, gifts and jewellery. Every visit is sure to prove surprising and inspirational.
The remains of Griff Mill Coverdale, 1979.
Hasselblad 500CM.
HP4
First recorded in 1257, the water corn mill was abandoned at the outbreak of the Second World War. Its last occupants being Annie and Jim Peacock, known locally as Mr and Mrs Griff. A cloud burst in 1947 washed away the roadway which covered the beck and in 1949 the roof was removed.
Located in Raywick, Kentucky.
This is one of those photos that you are glad that you took the time to take. I was always intrigued by this building and over the years have took photos of it many times and they never seemed to turn out as well as I wanted. Looks like this is as good as it is going to get as it burned to the ground a few months back.
Stopped at the Blandford Store today to find out the history of it. The building had many careers with it starting as a mill to grind corn and wheat into meal . Tommy even to this day called it the " Old Mill " building.
It was also used as a broom factory, and later as a mechanic shop.
To get to the next mill, we drove north in the rain through the Mark Twain National Forest. Tucked deep in the woods, down a bumpy dirt road, was the Topaz Mill. The mill was first established in 1840, around a spring that has a daily flow of 11 million gallons.
I thought I should post this shot again on Flickr (originally posted in September) but this time enhanced using Photoshop. The scene is Little Mill Junction Signal Box, not an easy place to find, situated approximately 10km south of Abergavenny. A northbound Margam - Dee Marsh loaded steel coil (6M86) train powered by 66199, is seen approaching the signal box. The single line on the left, now a siding, is a remnant of the former branch line to Monmouth, which was closed in 1965. It is sometimes used by Railtrack engineering trains.
The signal box was built in 1883 by McKenzie and Holland for the Great Western Railway and has 17 levers with vertical tappet interlocking, 9 of which are active. In addition, it has an Entrance-Exit (NX) panel for signalling and is a transition point between automatic and manual block. It is also the first signal box on the Marches line north of Newport.
I do not believe the box is listed and according to my research is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2017.
The Janssen mill (molen) is built from 1877-1878.During the 70's of the last century there was a renovation. At the moment she's out of order. On regular times the mill is open for visits.
A winter view of the mill pond and mill at Beckman Mill near Beloit, Wisconsin. This 1868 grist mill is operational with power being supplied by its original water driven Leffel turbine. It was built shortly after the Civil War by millwright William Howe of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. In 1882 it was acquired by August Beckmann who had previously operated mills in nearby Juda and Hanover. The mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Best viewed on black. Processed in Photomatix Pro.