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BBC London News.
Lead miller Abigail provides film for BBC news report during Coronavirus restrictions.
Houghton Mill is the last working water mill on the River Great Ouse. The present building dates to the mid 18th century.
Taken early evening on iPhone.
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The Weavers' Triangle is a modern name for an area astride the Leeds and Liverpool Canal that was once at the heart of Burnley's textile industry.
The name was first used in the 1970s, as interest developed in preserving Burnley's industrial heritage, and refers to the roughly triangular shape of the region.
Former textile mill building on the north side of the Merrimack River.
I took this photo from the athletic clothing factory store located in the Ayer Mill building, which is on the south side of the river.
Gleaston Mill is a water-mill built in 1774 largely with stone from Gleaston Castle and Furness Abbey! It only stopped working in the 1960s and is currently under restoration.
Seems to be a 220V motor, not a 380V. Which is very good news, as it mean I can use it directly connected on a VFD converter.
This Mill Stone was mounted like this (along with a few other circular planters) during the redevelopment of this part of Gainsborough's Bridge Street, about 1970. I remember seeing a piece in the Gainsborough News about it, which claimed that the mill wheel had been found on the site, which is just South of "Dexel Tyres" (and would, until about 1964, have been about outside the entry to Popplewell's Row).
Fannyside Mill was a corn mill and was built around 1763.
It was still a working mill right up until the early 1960's.
The mill was powered by water drawn from East Fannyside Loch.
An even older mill constructed from wood was on this site prior to the present stone building.
The Longmont Sugar Mill. One of Colorado's top abandoned locations. One of the closest locations you will find in Colorado that compares to the monstrous factories that lay abandoned out east. After almost running into the owners in the north building nearly two years ago, I had been itching to get back and try to hack the northern building again. That day finally came. After a tricky infiltration(many cars driving by, workers operating equipment nearby and people walking around outside of adjacent buildings), my crew and I finally made it in. And this time, we were the only ones on location. Such an amazing trip. This has become my all time favorite location.
Mill, consisting of a catillus and meta on a stone foundation inside a bakery at Pompeii, Italy.
Pompeii used to have around 35 bakeries, more than 20 of which were larger complexes operating their own horse- or mule-powered mills.
The mills used in larger Pompeian bakeries were made from volcanic rock and consisted on two components, the conical meta and the hourglass-shaped catillus. The latter also acted as funnel for the grain, which was ground between both stones as the catillus was turned by a lever. Catilli in particular were subject to considerable wear, with parts breaking off as in the case of this millstone.
Gibson Cotton Mill
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Now owned by the National Trust.and is a Heritage site.
History
Lord Holme Mill - to give it its official title - was erected in the early 1800s by Abraham Gibson, a Heptonstall farmer and cotton spinner, of Greenwood Lee.
Following his death in 1790, it was his son, another Abraham, who set in motion the changes which were to transform the family's cottage industry into a much more ambitious concern; a factory was erected in the heart of Hardcastle Crags and manufacturing began in earnest.
Gibson Mill was one of the first generation mills of the Industrial Revolution. The Mill was driven by a water wheel inside and produced cotton cloth up until 1890. In 1833, 21 workers were employed in the building, each working an average 72 hours per week.
After it shut down as a working mill, the building became a mini holiday centre or "entertainment emporium" with a cafe, dance hall and skating rink catering mainly for day trippers who visited what became known as "Little Switzerland" until what seemed like its final closure in 1945.
"The family line was to survive for only four generations, however. Abraham the second was succeeded by his younger son, William, who in turn produced yet another Abraham, nicknamed "Young Ab," whose death, in 1956, brought the Gibson dynasty to an end."
"But his legacy was to have far-reaching effects on the area, for it was Young Ab, who not only left a considerable sum of money to local good causes, but, perhaps more significantly, willed his Hardcastle Crags acres to the National Trust." (Milltown Memories, summer 2003)
Since then the mill and its surrounding cottages, in spite of their setting in some of the loveliest countryside in Yorkshire, have fallen into disrepair although they have proved to be useful venues for promenade plays and in recent years as the set for Dotheboys Hall in a film of Charles Dickens's novel "Nicholas Nickleby
A National Historic Landmark
Also called Mayflower Mill
San Juan County, CO
Listed: 02/16/2000
Designated an NHL: 02/16/2000
The Shenandoah-Dives Mill, near Silverton, Colorado is located within the famous "San Juan Triangle" mining center of southwestern Colorado, which also includes the historic mining towns of Telluride and Ouray, and encompasses one of the most richly mineralized areas of North America. Fourteen thousand feet mountain peaks tower over the mill, which sits at the bottom of Arrastra Gulch in Baker's Park on the Animas River. The mill has retained an exceptional degree of historic integrity largely due to its isolation, due to its distance from major population centers, altitude, and severe winter climate. Currently, approximately 450 people reside year-round in Silverton.
Constructed in 1929, the Shenandoah-Dives Mill is the finest extant example of a selective flotation mill. This property illustrates the transformation of the mining and milling industry and the distinctive characteristics of the hard-rock milling process during the first half of the twentieth century. Flotation, introduced to the American mining industry in 1912, was an innovative concentration process that separated valuable minerals from complex ores. This process efficiently and economically concentrated complex ores that were practically impossible to treat by earlier methods. The flotation process solved the problem of diminishing high-grade ore supplies and allowed increased minerals production.
Mill Race carries water to the site of an old Ford Motor plant, powered by water. Location is Mill Race Village, Northville, Michigan.