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Playing with Photomatix Pro 3.2.2, very impressed with this version.
Westerdale Mill, Caithness, Scotland
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
"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.
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
Dam at a mill pond on Waba Creek, near White Lake, Ontario.
I feel fortunate to have access to this beautiful area. It is private property of a friend of a friend.
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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...
This home uses Buechel Stone's Mill Creek Siena. Visit www.buechelstone.com/shoppingcart/products/Mill-Creek-Sie... for more information.
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 ramÃrez (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.
Potomac Mills (1,839,130 square feet)
2700 Potomac Mills Circle, Woodbridge, VA
Opened September 12th, 1985
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).
Withywindle Mill 009 (4mm scale on 9mm gauge) pizza layout at Expo Narrow Gauge Swanley, Kent UK 27th October 2007.
Salts Mill (sometimes spelled Salt's Mill) is a former textile mill, now an art gallery, shopping centre, and restaurant complex in Saltaire. It was the first building to be complete in 1853.
When Salts Mill opened in 1853, it was the biggest factory in the world. 3000 workers toiled away at 1200 looms, producing 30,000 yards of cloth every single day.
It was located beside the Leeds & Liverpool Canal which provided him with connections to the ports of Liverpool and Hull. The large loading doors in the middle of Salt's Mill facing the canal show how important the canal was the location of Saltaire.
This huge Mill was the key to Sir Titus Salt's vision to relocate all his textile mills from the city of Bradford to a healthier purpose-built site, along with a surrounding village where his workers could enjoy a good quality of life.
Saltaire is a Victorian model village. The Victorian era Salt's Mill and associated residential district located by the River Aire and Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
Saltaire was built in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry. The name of the village is a combination of the founder's surname and the name of the river.
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Taken in West Eminence, MO on 10/16/11
The mill itself. The water's not really green, that's the plant life flourishing beneath the surface. The average daily flow at Alley Mill is 81 million gallons. (The spring from my previous photo is behind and a little to the right of this scene)
Inside the mill is the original, antique equipment with a small exhibit upstairs. I'm kind of a history buff so that was a really cool, unexpected treat. =)
See more from the day at studio281photography.blogspot.com/2011/10/southeast-misso...
The Millennium Mills is a derelict turn of 20th century flour mill in West Silvertown on the south side of the Royal Victoria Dock, between the Thames Barrier and the ExCel exhibition centre alongside the newly built Britannia village, in Newham, London, England.[2] The Mills are currently undergoing a major renovation as part of a £3.5billion redevelopment of Silvertown.
Along with Millennium Mills, there remains a small section of the now destroyed Rank Hovis Premier Mill and a restored grade II listed grain silo, labelled the ‘D’ silo. Described as a "decaying industrial anachronism standing defiant and alone in the surrounding subtopia",[3] the Millennium Mills has become a well-loved icon of post-industrial Britain and has made its way into many aspects of popular culture, being used as a backdrop in films and television shows such as Ashes to Ashes and Derek Jarman's The Last of England. Millennium Mills is also a destination for Urban Explorers despite high security, dangers of structural weakness, ten-storey drops and asbestos, and there are many reports and internal photos of the site.
A morning walk around Babbs Mill Lake on Christmas Day in the Kingfisher Country Park.
Starting from near Kingshurst in Solihull then towards Shard End in Birmingham and back.
Babbs Mill Lake is a man-made lake located in the Kingfisher Country Park in the Kingshurst area of Solihull, England. The lake was created as a balancing feature in times of flooding from the River Cole which is located nearby.
The lake gives its name to Babbs Mill Park, which was created to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. It was designated a Local Nature Reserve in 2002.
In March 2016, Solihull Council's planning committee approved a scheme to build 52 houses on land amounting to approximately seven per cent of the reserve.
Since August 2019, Babbs Mill Lake has hosted a parkrun, a free, weekly timed 5 km run/walk, every Saturday morning at 9am.
Old expired colour film souped in a household cleaner, silica gel and boiling water, exposed then developed in ORWO color chemistry C5168.
Potomac Mills (1,839,130 square feet)
2700 Potomac Mills Circle, Woodbridge, VA
Opened September 12th, 1985
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Manual rice mill from the Hanoi area in Northern Vietnam.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute.