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Mill Road post mill at Catfield, Norfolk c1920s. It was demolished in the late 1930s - more info on the Norfolk Mills website: www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/catfield-mill-rd-postmil...
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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Nice looking mill! Chimney long gone...
Described by Mike Rothwell in his book, Industrial Heritage: A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Blackburn: Pt 1: The Textile Industry as follows...
"John Fish's factory of 1851-52. Fish, an operative at jubilee and Brookhouse Mills, entered manufacture at the Silk Mill, Ainsworth St., c1843. From 1847-51 in partnership with Robert Watson at Stonebridge, Oswaldtwistle. The original buildings contained approximately 40,000 mule spindles and 600 looms worked by a 60 hp beam engine. Terraces of housing were built in Princess and John Bright Streets. Second spinning mill, with separate engine, boiler and chimney and extension to weaving shed 1859-60. 66,900 spindles, 924 looms employing 1000 by 1870's. A further addition in 1889-90 increased spindles to 73,288. The factory principally wove shirtings.
John Fish Ltd., formed 1874, directors included Wm. Sandeman and members of the Fish family. New boiler house built 1899; triple expansion inverted vertical engine by George Saxon & Co., installed 1906 to drive both mills. William Birtwistle secured control of John Fish Ltd., 1907.
Following 1945 the mills were modernized; mules replaced by 29,000 ring spindles, weaving shed rebuilt 1949-50, automatic looms installed. William Birtwistle Allied Mills ceased spinning in 1975 and weaving temporarily in 1980. During 1983-84 production was transferred from Cicely Bridge Mill to Waterfall. Current weaving capacity comprises 160 Piconals and 200 Northrops, some in the card room of the original mill.
Buildings: mainly brick built, with pilasters and stone parapet supported on brackets. Stone plinths to most buildings. The later additions are in machine pressed brick.
Old End - 4 storey spinning mill, 9 x 14 bays on longest side; single storey card room extension in recess on Peel Street. Beam engine house (converted to loading bay) projects from west gable, entrance and staircase turret adjoins. Tower on south side. 1906 engine house at right angle, facade on Peel Street has semi-circular Pediment, elaborate keystone arch window and "Waterfall Mills" in glazed brick. Rope race to rear. 1899 boiler house, with rooms above, just beyond. Plant includes three Lancashire boilers and two oil-fired units. Circular brick chimney. Single storey watch house, office and weigh house at corner of Peel and Queen Victoria Streets. Reconstructed weaving shed under north wall of spinning mill. An older stone built block with hipped roofs faces the yard. Two storey loading bay with hoist turret in corner.
New End - 4 storey 21 x 4 bay fireproof spinning mill extending along Queen Victoria Street. Two infilled round-headed doors at south west corner (for original boilers), gable end has two windows which probably lit the engine house. Taking in doors and hoist beam. Note also the wall brackets which may have carried a drive from the later engine. Brick tower with cast iron tank projects from north wall of mill. Chimney base adjoins. Beyond are the main offices and board rooms. Additional buildings on Queen Victoria Street comprise two and singe storey warehouses with loading bays to street. Housing - the terraces of houses erected by Fish have been demolished. Modern factory units have been erected on the site."
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Ishi led us on a walking talk about the history and significance of Mill Creek.
The Mill Creek is a stream in southwest Ohio. It flows 28.4 miles southwest and south from its headwaters in West Chester of Butler County through central Hamilton County and the heart of Cincinnati into the Ohio River just west of downtown. The section of Interstate 75 through Cincinnati is known as the Mill Creek Expressway.
The Mill Creek Valley is a remnant of the Deep Stage Ohio River from the days of the Last Glacial Maximum. The stream, with its water power and valley, were important to the development of Cincinnati. Then, for a time, the steep hillsides that surround the creek limited expansion and gave impetus to the free growth of surrounding communities that were over that barrier. Finally, inclined planes solved the problem, before highways and automobiles eliminated it.
Throughout Cincinnati's history, Mill Creek has been the scene of heavy industry. At the turn of the 20th-century, it was seen as "a great open city sewer". In 1997, it was described as "the most endangered urban river in America."
is throwing a party along the banks of the Mill Creek at Koenig Park. This three-part event celebrates our shared water resource: the Mill Creek. This year is also the Council’s 20th anniversary! At the celebration will be marking 20 years of Mill Creek improvement as we charge forward for another 20 years of success.
Family-friendly event activities include:
Mill Creek canoe outing (seating is limited)
Loop bike ride
Free dinner
Stream restoration information
Live music
Family games
What: 4th Annual Mill Creek ReCreation Celebration & 20th Anniversary
When: Sunday, September 27, 1-6:30 (canoe float, bike ride, and party!)
Canoe outing: 1:00pm (RSVP required, seating limited)
Bike ride: 2:00pm (RSVP required, seating limited)
Celebration: 3:30pm
Where: Koenig Park, 520 W Columbia Avenue, Reading, Ohio 45215
For more information about the history of Mill Creek, read The Mill Creek: an Unnatural History of an Urban Stream, by Dr. Stan Hedeen
1787: The stream, previously called “Maketewa” by the Native Americans, was referred to as “Mill Creek” on a land contract written by John Cleves Symmes, a congressman from New Jersey. The name was used as a marketing campaign to drive buyers to the land. New settlers to the area were interested in building saw mills and grist mills on the stream.
1830s: First slaughterhouses were opened in the Mill Creek Valley. Industrial growth begins to rapidly increase.
1871: Noticeable amounts of sewage and waste were being dumped into the Mill Creek.
1892: Cincinnati Health Department recommends that the city adopt a plan to do something about the nuisance of the Mill Creek. It stunk…
1902: Mill Creek was found to be the foulest watercourse in Ohio according to the Board of Health.
1913: Records of large amounts of water being pumped out of the stream for industrial use, and pumped back in the stream untreated, hot, and/or polluted. Among the biggest industrial operations on the Mill Creek were distilleries, slaughterhouses, and animal byproduct businesses. “Each liquid gallon flowing from the Mill Creek’s mouth in 1913 contained a cup of warm swill contributed by thirty-six alcohol, meat, and animal by-product firms.”
Sierra Pacific announces closure of Susanville Mill
By Shayla Ashmore
News Editor
Sierra Pacific Industries announced the permanent closure of its Susanville sawmill last week due to a serious log shortage. Sierra Pacific spokesman Ed Bond said all employees would get 60-days notice before the mill is closed and dismantled sometime during the first three months of 2004. Employees will receive the notice once an exact closure date is set.
Bond said current employees will be asked if they would like to transfer to another Sierra Pacific facility, and if so where.
"And we will attempt to accommodate those transfers," he said on Tuesday, Dec. 16.
Bond said George Emmerson, SPI's vice president of sales and operations, came to Susanville personally to announce the closure to mill crews.
"This is one of the most difficult things the company has had to do," Bond said of the meeting with employees.
"Someone might consider this as a terrible time - before the holidays - to be telling people this," Bond said. "Well, there's no good time to tell people this and we felt that if this is going to happen, we'd already made the decision that they should know so they can plan accordingly. It wouldn't be right if someone went out and a bought a new car or signed up for a new home or something with the prospect of not having a job there."
SPI officials only made the decision to close the mill on Thursday, Dec. 11 and employees were notified as soon as possible, he said.
"We wanted to minimize the heartache of speculation and uncertainty for the families and move forward," an SPI press release issued late on Monday, Dec. 15 quoted Bond.
Company officials cited the loss of Forest Service timber, unfair competition from states with fewer environmental regulations and foreign imports as the reasons behind the difficult decision. In the press release, SPI pointed out timber sales from the Lassen National Forest fell from 108 million board feet in 1990 to 17.9 million in 2002.
"That mill has been designed to cut higher grade logs," Bond said. "And even with the Healthy Forest initiative and the Quincy Library Group programs, why, the types of logs that would be coming off of those from the Forest Service would not be the higher grade logs that would be necessary for that mill."
Found this photo being used here:
The top of Mill Lane has this cluster of buildings that form a part of Liscard Centre.
The HSBC marks the top of Liscard Precinct, the shopping heart of Wallasey. Since the 70's through traffic has been diverted around the middle of Liscard via the one way system.
The 60s and 70s brought construction of Liscard House, possibly sitting on one of the highest points in the town (after Gorsehill Road in New Brighton) the block of flats can be seen from as far a field as Upton, Everton and Tranmere. The Tower Pub was presumably built at the same time as the block but I can't be sure. The name certainly suggests so!
Liscard Road is off to the left and links Liscard with Egremont and Seacombe.
Inside the Tide mill built in 1403.
A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a reservoir. As the tide comes in, it enters the mill pond through a one way gate, and this gate closes automatically when the tide begins to fall. When the tide is low enough, the stored water can be released to turn a water wheel.
Tide mills are usually situated in river estuaries, away from the effects of waves but close enough to the sea to have a reasonable tidal range. These mills have existed since the Middle Ages, and some may go back to the Roman period.
This one is in Corroios, Seixal, Portugal.
This old mill appears to have just grown out of the rock along the gorge beneath the waterfall of the Vermillion River in Hastings, Minnesota.
Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours
This another pic from Fiddleford Mill, IR again, but this time I have Colour swapped using Photoshop. I have found that this process doesn't work, with all of the IR pics I have taken, for instance I did a shot of Mount Tiede in IR while I was on holiday, the result was not what I had hoped for. still this what I had in mind when I got the filter, so happy days :-)
The Pillsbury A-Mill is a former flour mill located on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It held the distinction of being the world's largest flour mill for 40 years. Completed in 1881, it was owned by the Pillsbury Company and operated two of the most powerful direct-drive waterwheels ever built, each capable of generating 1,200 horsepower (895 kW). The mill was named a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and has since been converted into resident artist lofts.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_A-Mill
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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
Wind Mill (or wind turbine for the Dutch ;-)) in the North of France.
This picture has been shot by a camera lofted with helium balloon
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.
When I first bought this mill the original design of the way the logs lock into place was horrible and resulted in cuts that were never 90. I built a trailer for it and changed the locking mechanism, not it works way better. Eventually I'll expand it to be able to cut even bigger logs.
Norton Marsh drainage mill was built in 1863 on the bank of the River Yare near Reedham Ferry. It was 4 storeys high. After it ceased operation, the cap, sails and machinery were removed and replaced by a conical iron roof that remained in place until 1988. As part of further restoration work this has been replaced by a Norfolk boat shaped cap with safety barrier and the scoop wheel was also reconstructed. It's now a holiday cottage.
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.
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Mill Valley: California
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They Chose to be Different
By Chuck Crandall
Chronicle Books
My Mill House Museum Ornament to Represent Occoquan in the Virginia Governor's Mansion.
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A pleasant 3 story mill in the village of Honley. As with all the previous visitors any history was hard to come by. The village as with many in the area were dotted with textile mills, and appears that cloth making has taken place in Honley since the 11th Century.
Very little remains regarding the company itself within the building apart from a certificate of Incorporation in 1960 establishing itself as a limited Company. Information of the companies activities are also limited, presumably they wove and/or sold rugs, there are some bits and pieces of really old looms in the loft space but that’s about it. It seems that the company only operated for 15 years until it was wound up. After that the bottom of this mill was last used around 2008 as a M.O.T centre/garage place.
This home uses Buechel Stone's Mill Creek Siena. Visit www.buechelstone.com/shoppingcart/products/Mill-Creek-Sie... for more information.
This postcard is from the early 1900s. And here's photograph of coconut oil mills taken in the 1970s - not much has changed: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coconut_oil_making_Seyche...
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).