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The Mill.
In the mill
constant noise resounds:
clank and thud, clank and thud,
wooden pegs and gears enmesh
with hand-carved cogs,
driven by the whoosh of water in the leat
under the timbered wheel,
which turns and turns and turns….
In the mill
the stones circle round and round,
gritstone grooves, grinding, grinding…
rhythmic groaning of tackle and hoist,
milling the golden grain,
the yield, the hard-won ears, gleaned
from the field beyond the open door….
In the mill
dust hangs in the air, clags in the throat,
carpets cobwebbed corners,
drifts on lath and joist,
clogs the millers’ gasping lungs…
pale flour dust, sunlit motes swirling
endlessly, whirling clouds
in grimy windows’ light,
dust from the rasping runner,
turning, turning….
In the mill,
years pass, harvests come and go,
the river now is full of weed,
the pound choked with rush and flowering reed.
Paddles no longer connect with the flow:
powerless, the stream trickles uselessly away,
the stones are still…
In the mill,
all is silent,
save for the scratchings
of a hungry mouse.
(Commendation Quantum Leap
22nd Subscriber Competition,
July 2008, and published in QL Sept 2008)
Elsing Water Mill, Norfolk. For more information, go to www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/elsing.html
Image submited fro Exposure Leeds "This Is My Place" project. These series of images represent the decay and dereliction of Bradford, but could also be any other northern mill town.
Jon, all images are avaliable without borders and copyright info if you want to use them, just let me know.
Inside the mill itself. Taken with 2-second timer with camera on a barrel in available light.
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Still near point A on the the map, I peer inside this new found tunnel. Clearly all dry and blocked up. About 15ft long, and at a slightly higher level than the river. I wonder what was for, it doesn't join back up for the river past the bridge so it must have been an outlet for something quite different.
Longshot of the Gold Medal Flour sign in the old mill ruins of Minneapolis, winter of 2003. Long before I owned a digital camera. The shot was taken with my old black body Minolta film camera with C-41 color film. This building on West River Road sat abandoned and empty for years before it was turned into the Mill City Museum. Read the history of the Mill Ruins area in the red Ravine post.
Winter 2003
C41 negative print film
Minolta 35mm SLR
Minneapolis, Minnesota
full post on red Ravine:
Dalton Mills was once the largest textile mill in the region, employing over 2000 workers. It was built by Joseph Craven in 1869, replacing the original mill which was owned by Rachel Leach in the 1780's.
The mill was named Dalton Mills after the manager employed by Rachel Leach, a man called Dalton.
In its heyday between 1869 and 1877 the mill provided jobs for workers all over Keighley and the Worth Valley.
As the textile industry declined, the fortunes of Dalton Mills changed and up until 2004, it had been virtually empty for almost a decade. John Craven, the great-great grandson of Joseph, who had built the mill, eventually chose to sell Dalton Mills to Magna Holdings, to ensure it’s survival.
Part of the renovation of the Clock Tower has included restarting the landmark clock which has not ticked for 25 years. In the mill's heyday, thousands of workers relied on the clock to get to work on time, but the hands had not moved for a quarter of a century. Last year Magna Holdings repaired the clock, and illuminated the faces, so it can display the time to the whole of Dalton Lane again.
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,
Cromford Mill was the first water-powered cotton spinning mill developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England, which laid the foundation of his fortune and was quickly copied by mills in Lancashire, Germany and the United States. It forms the centrepiece of the Derwent Valley Mills, now a World Heritage Site.
The back side of the Roanoke Star atop Mill Mountain in southwest Virginia. Taken from Roanoke Mountain.
One of the oldest mills in Stroud, with parts dating back to the 1500s. The building is now home to trainspotters.co.uk that specialises in industrial lighting. We visited to investigate ghostly happenings there. Watch the video: youtu.be/TrKriJf5Imw
Millenium Mills and D-Silo
There used to be alot more slios attached to the front of the mills but at some point they were demolished. None quite like D-silo tho, what a great building it is!
A retired "mill critter," which long worked at the Wisconsin Rapids paper mill, sits idle near Vesper, Wisconsin.
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