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James Drummond & Son Mills, Lumb Lane Bradford. The architects were Lockwood & Mawson who later designed City Hall, the mill was seen to be virtually finished in December 1885 but didn't open for business till 1886 and after an eventful history of 115 years finally closed in 2001
Shaddon Mill was built for spinning cotton by Peter Dixon & Sons in 1836. The Chimney was 305ft high when first built making it the 8th tallest chimney in the world!
Dixon's Chimney and Shaddon Mill was built in Shaddongate, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, by Peter Dixon in 1836. The architect Richard Tattersall was from Manchester.
Shaddon Mill was a cotton factory, the chimney of which became famous due to its height. The chimney was built to be tall enough to prevent the large amounts of smoke generated by the factory becoming noxious to the rest of the city. In its day Shaddon Mill was the largest cotton mill in England and had the 8th largest chimney in the world.
Shaddon Mill became listed in 1949 and the chimney was listed in 1972. Peter Dixon and Sons Ltd. provided work for 8000 people in their four mills in the area.
In 1883 Peter Dixon and Sons Ltd. went into liquidation and the mill was taken over by Robert Todd and Sons Ltd., who then used the mill for wool production rather than cotton.
Dixon's Chimney, being such a popular and historic structure in Carlisle, was restored by Carlisle City Council in 1999. Originally it was 305 ft tall, but in 1950 it was shortened to 290 ft. The internal diameter of the chimney remains 17 ft 6 in and 10 ft walls at the base.
In 2005 part of the mill was converted into apartments by Story Homes and the other part is used by the University of Cumbria
Mill stones located at Hagood Mill in Pickens, SC. Haygood Grist Mill was originally build around 1773 and purchased by Benjamin Haygood in 1823. The mill as it stands today was build by his son, James Haygood, in 1845. There is more history at the web site.
Isle-aux-Coudres water mill
turned into a museum, the mill is still producing floor
The water intake in from a dam and transported in the wooden pipe.
Isle-aux-Coudres, Qc
Sarehole Mill is a Grade II listed water mill (in an area once called Sarehole) on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. It is now run as a museum by the Birmingham City Council. It is one of only two working water mills in Birmingham, with the other being New Hall Mill in Walmley, Sutton Coldfield.
Built in 1542 on the site of a previous pool. It was once known as Bedell's or Biddle's Mill after the name of an early owner. In 1727 is was described as High Wheel Mill. The current building dates from 1771 and was restored 1969.
As early as 1755, the mill was leased by Matthew Boulton, one of the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution and leading figure of the Lunar Society, for scientific experimentation. It is believed he converted the machinery for use in metal working. As well as milling grain it has been used for grinding bones for fertiliser, metal rolling (Matthew Boulton) and wire drawing.
J. R. R. Tolkien lived within 300 yards of the mill between the ages four and eight, and would have seen it from his house. He has also said that he used the mill as a location in The Lord of the Rings.
"It was a kind of lost paradise ... There was an old mill that really did grind corn with two millers, a great big pond with swans on it, a sandpit, a wonderful dell with flowers, a few old-fashioned village houses and, further away, a stream with another mill. I always knew it would go — and it did." - said Tolkien in an interview with Guardian journalist, John Ezard in 1966, before the mill's restoration.
The grassland and grounds nearby host the annual Tolkien Weekend event that celebrates the life and works of Tolkien. The mill is part of the Shire Country Park.
nrhp # 76000353- McCosh Mill is located in Alabama, but can only be accessed through Georgia. The Mill and house were both burned down by vagrants in the 80/90's but the foundation of both still can be seen along with the ruins of the dam and spillway that ran the mill. It is listed as haunted, saying that the miller killed his wife and lover and they prowl the area, however the older locals say this did not happen. Many locals and people from the surrounding area visit the mill on a regular basis to fish, swim, sunbathe and just hang out. It consists of the upper Mill pond and rocky rapids below the pond.
from historicplaces.net
The historic 'Daniels Mill' and waterwheel as viewed from a passing train on the adjacent heritage Severn Valley Railway at Eardington near the town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire (UK).
Like any discerning 18th century waterwheel mill, Daniels Mill has a website www.danielsmill.co.uk
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Concord Mills (1,615,597 square feet)
8421 Concord Mills Boulevard, Concord, NC
Opened September 17th, 1999, renovated in the late 2010s
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As with many of the smaller mills in Saddleworth there isn’t that much history about the place. It was used by Saddleworth Yarn Dyers up until 2000, which more or less when the neighbouring Bailey Mill stopped production.
Since then the building has been managed by a company from Bradford, not sure if they actually used it for anything during this time. The 2 large steel chimeys which used to dominate the skyline have finally been removed in the last couple of months, the current future of the buildings are unknown.
An abandoned shooting range and two skag heads looking for stuff to steal kept us busy at this super mill near Manchester.
The ruins of an old mill in Limehouse, Ontario.
Not to far from Cache 'spyü 00005 - Don't Get Hives.
"Situated at the northwest corner of Coral and E. Hagert Streets in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Beatty’s Mills Factory Building, constructed in 1886, stands as an intact example of late 19th century textile mill architecture. "
More information on the William Beatty textile Mill can be found at the Workshop of the World website. For more information on the redevelopment of William Beatty's Mills as the Coral Street Arts House see the website for Powers & Company, Inc.
HNRC owned 20905 & 20901 seen here at Healey Mills having failed here a few days earlier. The duo were back in action on 27th, being used to move long term resident 47475 to TJ Thompson, Stockton for scrapping.
......now a private home. Silton Mill, Dorset.
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Silton is a village in north Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale four miles north west of Gillingham. The village has a population of 134 (As of 2001).
It was for many years the country residence of Sir Hugh Wyndham (1602-1684), whose memorial by the sculptor Jan van Nost is in the parish church of St Nicholas.
Two Silton superlatives are the largest church memorial in Dorset and the tree with the biggest girth in the county. This is one of the ancient oaks that marked the limits of the medieval hunting ground known as Gillingham Forest. Although it is called Wyndham’s Oak, there was a Queen Oak in the vicinity. Perhaps that is the old roadside tree at Manor Farm, or it could have been an earlier name for Wyndham’s Oak.
Just to confuse things further, Wyndham’s Oak is also the Judge’s Tree. The hollow bole is 26 feet high and it measures 38 feet around the trunk. Sir Hugh Wyndham, Justice of the Common Pleas in the time of Charles II, used to sit beneath it, contemplating his cases. He died on the job, on circuit to Norwich, in 1684. His body was brought home, and he is commemorated by a life-size statue set in an immense baroque monument, which dominates the interior of the parish church. The sculptor was John Nost from Tring in Hertfordshire. Pastoral poet William Barnes wrote in the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1833 of walking across from Mere to see Wyndham’s former home: ‘A neighbour of mine, who had lived in the old house in his boyhood, remembers it as containing some fine rooms lined with carved oak wainscot, and some of the family furniture, such as silk hanging and bedsteads.’
I have a book of photo's of Old Swan and Tuebrook and I went for a walk and tried to photograph these places from the same angles. I am fascinated with Then & Now. changed much in a century. The only thing that seems to have changed from the book is the absence of the No 12 Tram in the centre!
I've named my mill 'Igor'. To the right is my 18x24 Grade AA surface plate on a home-built stand (yes, it supports the plate on its Airy points) with a cover on it. Still needs some paint, come to think of it.
Got a chance to ride a section of the Richland B&O rail-trail from Lexington to Bellville, OH and back.
The Elzy Mill in Bellville, OH is one of the featured landmarks along the trail and the late afternoon light really shows it off in this image.
For more info about the Richland B&O Trail...
Erwin Mills in Durham, NC at Christmas, 1951
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
Udora grist mill on the Uxbridge brook in Udora, a community in the town of Georgina, York region, Ontario. This grist mill was built about 140 years ago by Thomas and Lancelot Bolster and has been designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. It is best remembered as Peers Mill. The Peers family ran the mill for 90 years until the mill closed in 1976. Peers Mill was one of the last functioning grist mills in Ontario. The mill can be found on Victoria Road at the corner of Peers Lane in Udora. Udora was originally named Snoddon Corners.
Concord Mills (1,615,597 square feet)
8421 Concord Mills Boulevard, Concord, NC
Opened September 17th, 1999, renovated in the late 2010s
The Mill Avenue Bridges at Tempe Town Lake in Tempe, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
From "Stanley Iron Slitting Mill” (St Helens Council leaflet):
“By 1828 the Iron Slitting Mill had been demolished and replaced with a Corn Mill. The Corn Mill only required one waterwheel, so the second wheel pit was filled in. The culvert that Stanley Bank Water now flows through was also built around this time. The Corn Mill was itself demolished around 1900...”
Seen here, in the background, are the walls of another building thought to have been constructed when the Corn Mill was operating. It is divided into lined 'cells' with a drain in the middle, suggesting a process that used large quantities of water. Animal tethering rings found in 1982 would seem to indicate a tannery or similar.