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Alongside the Rochdale Canal in Ancoats are this fine group of cotton mills. From the right are Murray's Decker Mill (1801-02) and Old Mill (1798), McConnel & Kennedy's Sedgwick Mill (1819-20) and Royal Mill 1912).
This is Mill Street, a picture postcard street behind Warwick Castle. At the bottom of the street is The Mill Garden.
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Iowa Falls, Iowa
Mills Tower is a good example of the second generation utilitarian support structures the Illinois Central built between the 1880s and 1930s to control traffic along their lines. Mills Tower is the only interlocking tower left in Iowa, out of nearly seventy in operation at various times and places.
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With its storied history and fame as one of the great jazz spots where Billie and Bix played, the Green Mill Lounge was at the top of my must-sees in Chicago and it did not disappoint. This delightful little haven is a place where time has stood still and ghosts of gangsters and jazz players past continue to rule. Here's the fascinating history of the Green Mill Lounge:
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.
66034 passes Slitting Mill with 6E01 1030 Doncaster Up Decoy to Hinksey, on 17th October 2014. Nowt too exciting, but at least a bit of sun helped me to get out and test my new xoom!
Hyde's Mill is a favorite attraction in Ridgeway, Wisconsin. It was built in 1850. Today the mill is no longer in operation and efforts are underway to raise capital to refurbish and turn into an education center. The wooden water wheel which operates a stone dam makes this unique and a famous attraction for artist trying to capture a piece of history.
Went to Stormie Mills breakfast seminar yesterday. An enlightening and inspirational insight into Stormie's exceptional talents and humanitarian attitude.
This extract is from his Facebook page:
"Stormie has decided to turn the experience of having his wall painted over without permission into a positive one by creating these stickers to raise money for an anti-bullying organisation, so that the character may live on forever. The stickers are for sale for $5 each to Australian residents only, and all profits will go towards raising money to support anti-bullying initiatives" The original work is the one that was painted painted over due to a bureaucratic blunder. See the story here www.flickr.com/photos/merufumoto/14168306924/ and the subsequent photo's of the re-birth in the form of "The Passing of Freedom"
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Rebuilt 1814, earlier kiln, lean-to annex extended 1930s, kiln lowered circa 1940, conservation programme 1988-92 (see Notes). Rare survival of 3-storey, irregular L-plan, water-powered, working meal mill with outstanding Angus-type semicircular kiln (lowered), enclosed iron and wood overshot wheel and remarkable interior in use (2009). Sited in picturesque rural setting with mill dam (fed by Barry Burn) and lade to NW and miller's cottage to SW. Snecked red sandstone rubble with roughly squared dressings, some tooled; small red brick extension. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay entrance elevation to NW with door in full-width single storey lean-to range. Conical roofed semicircular 2-storey kiln at NE with blocked openings and `auld wife' type ventilator. Wheel housing to gabled SW elevation and 3-storey elevation to SE.Small-pane glazing in timber fixed and sash and case windows. Pitched and piended Angus stone slate roof. INTERIOR: remarkable survival of interior workings to lower ground (meal) floor, ground (milling or stone) floor, 1st (hopper or bin) floor. 2 pairs of millstones for shelling and milling. Milling pair comprising segments of French burr stone, crafted by Messrs J Smith & Son, Edinburgh. Other machinery includes, fanners, elevators, sieves and sack hoist, all powered from the same water source.KILN: 4.4 metre diameter semicircular kiln with small brick fronted fire at lower ground, access to kiln floor at ground via timber steps, 3 kiln shutes (1 in use) at 1st floor. Some areas patched in brick and metal drying platform. Evidence of lowered wallhead.WHEEL: 4.7 metre diameter overshot wheel with 30 wooden buckets. Pit wheel by Messrs Thomson, Son & Co of Douglas Foundry, Dundee (possibly 1881). Teeth of other main gears comprise alternating metal and beechwood. Wallhead now of reinforced concrete.MILLER'S COTTAGE: single storey, 3-bay, slated, stone cottage with lower 2-bay extension. Original cottage with centre timber door and fanlight flanked by timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing pattern.
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In the ownership of the National Trust for Scotland. Barry Mill was formerly known as Upper or Over Mill to differentiate it from the now demolished Nether Mill which was located at the foot of the Barry Burn. Hundreds of water mills across Scotland have fallen out of use or been demolished, but Barry Mill is an exceptional survivor. In full working order, it belongs to a select few water-powered meal mills in Scotland which are still in use in 2009. Barry is a small rural mill in a little-altered picturesque setting with its little-altered traditional miller's cottage, former stable block which has been converted to a reception area, nearby bridge dated 1775 (separately listed) over the Barry Burn and weir for the next mill downstream. During the 1980s damage to the mill lade led to the end of commercial milling at Barry. In 1988 the National Trust for Scotland purchased the buildings with a bequest from Miss Isobel L Neish. An extensive conservation programme (1988-92) returned the mill to full working order based on its 1814 post fire reconstruction with attached kiln and enclosed waterwheel. The work carried out included restoring stonework, replacing the kiln floor and wheel housing, and re-roofing with Angus stone slate. John Ridley of Blair Athol Mill carried out the machinery restoration. Barry Mill was opened to the public in 1992 with an interior rich in artefacts left by the last miller who took over in 1926. The lands of Barry were given to the Cistercian monastery at Balmerino, Fife in 1229 and the first mill records date from 1539. Robert Gardyne of Middleton purchased Millhead of Barrie in 1683 and the mill remained in the family until 1811. When new tenants took over the site they were required to insure their property for £440 and the mill retains a replica `Scottish Union' fire shield with lion rampant showing that the owner was insured. Barry Mill is the last working watermill in Angus. When operating commercially it produced oatmeal while the former Nether Mill ground barley. The unusual semicircular stone kiln, formerly the same height as the mill and also thought to have been free standing, seems to be peculiar to Angus. Other examples of the Angus-type kiln were at Mill of Peattie and Arbirlot, although the latter was detached. As technological development led to more substantial mill buildings, kilns could be attached with fireproof walls preventing sparking. The Angus type may have been influenced by earlier circular kilns, which were still widespread in 1730, made from a 'framework of boughs (kiln-ribs) which supported a platform of heather or straw (kiln-head) upon which the grain was laid out' (Shaw, p115). Water-powered horizontal mills for grinding corn have been known in Scotland since the 7th century, with larger mills running vertical wheels introduced in the 17th century. It was not uncommon to find a sequence of mills operated by the same watercourse, and Barry is no exception with evidence of up to five mills having been uncovered along the course of Barry Burn. The listing for Barry Mill was reviewed in the context of the similarly working Mill of Benholm in Aberdeenshire and in comparison with water mill listings throughout Scotland. Formerly listed as Upper Mill. List description revised and category changed from B to A 2009.
Source: data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0:::...
Cromford Mill, the world’s first successful water powered cotton spinning mill, was built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright. From then until around 1790, he continued to develop the mills, warehouses and workshops, which now form the Cromford Mills site.
Alley Mill is located approximaely 6 miles west of Eminence, Missouri, in Shannon County. The red mill, also known as the "Old Red Mill," is located on Alley spring, which is part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. The Mill is operated as an Ozarks history museum. The spring and the small community that grew up around it was originally named Mammoth Spring and later Barksdale Spring, but these names were deemed too long by the Post Office Department of the time, so the village was renamed after a prominent local citizen, John Alley. The community at Alley thrived for a while, then declined as times changed. While fewer folks came to Alley for the mill's services, people from all over the area kept coming to visit the spring's blue waters.
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Somehow I managed to blag my way around the yard at Heally Mills one Sunday morning. I was given an orange flack vest and told to be careful.
Regrettably these were the last pictures taken on my old Ixus as the quality had clearly dissapeared. That being said at least I have a collection of pictures taken in what was by this time nothing opther than a graveyard. It was sad to sse the 56's lined up, rotting away and awaiting their fate.
This picture was taken from inside one of the cabins looking out at 56068.
Preston Mill, East Linton, about 20 miles from Edinburgh.
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The interior of Mill Green signal box on the outskirts of Spalding, showing the 21 lever Saxby & Farmer Duplex frame and gate wheel for the adjacent crossing. The box was on the GN & GE Joint Railway had opened in 1882 and had probably contained a Stevens frame when first opened. The Saxby & Farmer frame was secondhand in 1931 and had been installed when an Up Goods Loop and an Down Goods line from Spalding No.2 had been brought into use. The Down Goods line was taken out-of-use in July 1973 and the Up goods Loop was abolished on 17th October 1982.
GV II* Western complex of integrated multi-component wool textile factory, now partially in use as small industrial estate, with the remaining component structures empty at the time of inspection (August 2000). Late C18, continuously enlarged and re-modelled between c.1800 and c.1920, with late C20 alterations and changes of use to individual components. Coursed rubble sandstone, with ashlar and red brick dressings, and red brick, with slate and C20 sheet roof coverings.
PLAN: the complex forms the western half of the extensive wool textile manufacturing site at Tonedale Mills, which is divided into two parts by a water course, the Back Stream. The site housed wool and yarn preparation processes in a complex of functionally-related buildings, identified as mills 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and combing shed sited in rectangular configurations to the north and west of the site, with a multi function range, housing boiler repair, power generation, wool mixing and cleaning and tin smithing facilities to the east side.
Mills 2 and 3 represent the phased development between 1861 and 1871 of a twenty-one bay steam-powered, and subsequently electrically-powered worsted spinning mill. Early phase to east, eleven bays of four storeys and attics, of rubble sandstone, with keyed semi-circular arch-headed windows up to second floor level, and similar window openings to attic floor. Fourth floor with flat-headed openings. Entrance to mill within fire-proof stair tower at east end, within six-bay return elevation. Doorway with plank double doors with adjacent shaft box for entry of horizontal shaft associated with vertical drive shaft, now removed, within stair well. Later 17 bay phase of c.1871 to the west, constructed to a slightly wider plan, but of matching materials and detailing externally, with a fire-proof stair and water tower and a large engine house at the junction of the two phases. INTERIOR: both phases are of non-fire proof construction, with timber floors supported on substantial cross beams. Cast-iron columns with compression plates and bolting faces on north side for line shaft cradles. M-profile collared roof with principals carried on cast-iron brackets bolted to floor beams. Collars set within cast-iron shoes support short king posts. Roof valley column supports with rectangular eyed heads. Later phase shares constructional characteristics, but with heavier columns with four-way bolting faces, and the upper floors retain evidence of multiple line shafts. Both phases retain internal metal fire doors. Stair tower with brick jack arch fire-proofing. Adjacent engine house, with brick vaulted ceiling at third floor level retaining lifting rings. The engine house, thought to have housed a double beam engine designed to power both sides of the mill, retains the engine entablature support stonework in the internal cross walls, and cast-iron shaft boxes for the vertical power shaft, now removed. To the north of mills 2 and 3, single storeyed combing shed for sorting and combing worsted fibre prior to spinning. Narrow rectangular brick building with projecting bays to the south frontage facing the spinning mill formerly housing combing machinery. To the south of the spinning mill, mills no.4 and 6. Mill no.4 of red brick with a slated roof, two storeys, fourteen bays, aligned east-west, with a narrow five-bay storeyed crosswing at the east end. Main range with stacked basket arch-headed windows to each bay, with double doors to both floors at the east end. Hipped west end to roof, which has a deep eaves supported on paired brackets. Narrow gabled crosswing, the gable detailed as an open pediment, with ground floor doorway beneath multi-pane overlight. East side wall with stacked windows and single doorway to bay two. The mill was used for blending coloured wool fibres, with carding machines on the first floor. The narrow end bay was a storeyed motor room, used to power the upper floor machinery. To the east, no.6 mill, of rubble stone with red brick dressings. Ten bays, three storeys, with four bay returns, and a narrow two bay upper floor with horizontally-boarded cheeks above short roof slopes to outer bays. The west gable has windows arranged vertically 4:4:2, the east gable has an infilled double doorway to the centre, four first floor openings and two upper floor openings, one a window, one with boarded shutter. The boarded flanks, originally louvred, now house casement frames. The building was originally multi-functional, with baskets, used for wool transportation on site, made on the upper two floors, and machines for puttee (military leggings) knitting on the ground floor. This building appears to have been powered by a horizontal shaft from the spinning mill to the north. To the south of no.4 mill, no.5 mill. Massive, rectangular building of fourteen bays, with a narrow storeyed frontage, aligned north-south and a north-light shed extending westwards to the site boundary. Late C19, of smooth red brick rising from a deep plinth, with narrow storeyed range forming east front, with hipped slated roof and semi-circular arch-headed window and door openings. Single storeyed half-hip roofed porches to bays one and two, and bays eleven and twelve, each with three blind semi-circular arched openings and a wide doorway. Closely-spaced tall window openings to ground floor and a smaller number of first floor openings, some detailed as taking-in doors. A single pivoting wall crane survives towards the centre of the range. Three bay returns to each end, with single storey shed side walls extending to the west.
INTERIOR: floored frontage range with chute openings in ceiling for carded wool processed at first floor level. Arcaded shed interior with cast-iron columns supporting transverse arcade plates, with straight timber braces mounted in sockets in the columns, which are widely spaced, each bay accommodating two sections of half-glazed north light roof. The shed was used for manual wool sorting after washing and carding processes had taken place.
West of no.5 mill, multi-function range, with twin gabled, red brick boiler repair house to the north with wide semi-circular arched openings to centre of ground floors, and twin upper floor openings. Northern part with interior lifting gear, southern part adapted for storage. Further south, low, single storeyed rubble stone L-shaped cross range, formerly power house to provide alternating and direct current electricity from diesel generators. Further south, on west side, hipped roof red brick range with long and short wings extending eastwards, which accommodated a tin smithing shop, associated with the other metal-working shops on site, and wool mixing and cleaning processes required prior to carding and sorting in the shed opposite.
A multi phase and multi-function C19 wool textile mill site, forming the western part of the Tonedale Mills complex. The site retains a full complement of buildings which housed the wool preparation and yarn spinning processes required in the manufacture of woollen and worsted cloths, together with power generation and ancillary processes such as basket making and metal working needed in a complex, geographically-dispersed manufacturing complex. Tonedale Mills is thought to be the largest and most comprehensively -representative textile manufacturing site in the south-west, with a range of surviving structures unparalleled in England.
Listing NGR: ST1275521349
A view of the Mill Hotel, Walnut Tree Lane, Sudbury on a bright spring morning. The tower of St. Gregory's church can just be seen centre-right.
Formerly known as Hotel Elizabeth the Mill!, it stands over the river which once drove the mighty wheel that can still be seen encased behind glass in the restaurant. When the building was a mill a lady is said to have drowned beneath the wheel and her ghost still haunts the older sections of the hotel. Cleaning staff will not venture alone into some of the older rooms, and those who find themselves alone in the restaurant late at night can find it an unnerving experience. Displayed beneath the floor in the hotel foyer lie the mummified remains of a cat, its facial features frozen in an eternal snarl. Bricked up to bring good luck to the original mill building, it was rediscovered in 1971 when the mill was converted to a hotel. Whenever the cat is removed from the hotel a spate of bad luck always follows. In 1999 the cat was removed. Over the next few weeks the Road outside the hotel exploded, the managers office flooded several times and the person who had removed the cat met with an accident. All returned to normal once the cat had been returned.
The Mill Hotel is currently undergoing a £1,000,000 refurbishment.