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Showing the outlet of the old mill lade which had its intake at Hawick Cauld, and above it the former Alwul factory.
Dating to 1907, Hammond Mill was built by John W. Grudier, one of the founders of the town of Hammond. Three stories tall, it was built of wood and stone and boasted a basement and a rock floor. Milling ceased about 1940, when the machinery was removed and water diverted from the mill dam. Hammond was located on the old Jacksonport Salt Road, a main route betwee Springfield, Mo. and Jacksonport, Ark. during the Civil War. The bank vault still stands near the ruins of the mill to mark the site of the town.
Looks like someone has turned this old mill into a home today.... I was rather dissapointed that someone would do that to a piece of history......
Thornfield Missouri
Ozark County
Barry Mill
Barry Mill is a working Category A listed watermill in Barry, Angus in eastern Scotland. It is owned and operated by the National Trust for Scotland as an educational tourist attraction. Situated in a secluded area beside the Barry Burn (the watercourse, which provides its power), the mill lies about half a mile north of the village of Barry, near the town of Carnoustie. It is a three floor building, containing a meal floor (basement), a milling floor and a top (or "bin floor"). A site for several mills since at least 1539, Barry Mill was commercially operational until 1984; it was then restored, and has been operated by the Trust since 1992. It was threatened with closure in March 2009, but has remained open due to local support, and the securing of external funding.
When in operation, the mill processes oats into oatmeal. (Oatmeal being a staple foodstuff, that in the past commonly formed part of the basic diet in Scotland.) Originally, the oats arrived in sacks from the neighbouring farms and had already been threshed. (There is an example of traditional threshing machine on display at the mill.) The oats were then dried in the mill's peat-fired kiln and then sent down a chute to the meal floor to be collected in sacks again. Today the oats arrive already processed, but the rest of the milling continues in the traditional style.
The oats are hoisted to the bin floor at the top of the mill, from where they are emptied into a hopper that feeds one of the mill's two pairs of millstones situated on the mill floor. This pair of sandstone millstones shells the grain, and the output is then sent down a chute to the basement where the shelled oats ("groats") are separated from the husks using a fan. The groats are then hoisted back to the top floor and fed through the second pair of millstones (made of French burr stone). This produces the oatmeal, which descends to the basement for bagging.
The mill is powered by the Barry Burn: there is a working dam and lade half a mile upstream, which channel water to the mill wheel. The wheel is 15 feet 6 inches (4.72 m) diameter, and is powered by the water dropping down from the lade on downstream side of the overshot waterwheel . The mill's power is controlled by a series of levers, cogs and gears in the basement. These supply power to the millstones, to the hoists, and to a fan that is used to separate the groats from the chaff.
The earliest reference to a mill on this site dates from 1539. Indeed, there were originally two mills on the Barry Burn, both owned by Balmerino Abbey in Fife: a corn mill ("the Nether Mill") and an oat mill ("the Over Mill"). The properties of the abbey were annexed by the crown in 1587 as a result of the Scottish Reformation, and were granted to James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino in 1605. The mills were sold to a Robert Watson in the late 17th century and subsequently inherited by Watson's son-in-law, Robert Gardyne in the 1680s.
Milling at the Nether Mill was discontinued and the structure, dating to 1783, is now used as a store building. In 1814, the Over Mill (which became known simply as "Barry Mill") was destroyed by a fire and the today's structure dates from its rebuilding by the owner, Thomas Gardyne of Middleton and Barry. The mill was purchased by the Gunn family in 1926 before being further extended in the 1930s. Barry Mill continued to produce oatmeal until the late 1970s. After that time it was used only to produce animal feed, until flood damage to the mill lade finally ended commercial operations in 1984.
The derelict mill was acquired by the National Trust for Scotland in 1988, and was fully restored over the next four years, to the condition it had enjoyed in 1814). It was reopened by the Trust in 1992, and has since operated on a demonstration basis. Demonstrations are offered at weekends or for parties by prior arrangement, although the mill is also operational at other times. The mill's stables have been converted into a visitor centre, and the mill itself also contains displays about the life and work of both mill and millers.
The mill and the nearby bridge which was part of the old road from Barry Grange to Panbride were both granted Category B listed buildings status by Historic Scotland in 1971. The Nether Mill building was granted Category C listing in 1980.
In 2009, the mill was one of the least visited of the Trust's properties, attracting about 2,000 annual visitors. In March 2009, the Trust, facing financial difficulties, listed the loss-making Barry Mill as one of 11 of its properties threatened with immediate closure, unless external sponsorship could be found. The intention was to "moth-ball" the mill until financial circumstances were better. On 25 March, at a public meeting, "Friends of Barry Mill" was formed in an attempt to raise funds and to campaign to save the mill. In July 2009, the Trust announced that the property would continue to operate "for the foreseeable future" and that this was made possible due to support pledged by Angus Council and the Gibson Graham Charitable Trust.
If I were a miller
And a mill wheel grinding
- "If I Were a Carpenter" by Tim Hardin
millrace to Reagan's "tub mill" beside the Roaring Fork Motor Nature trail in the Smokies
MIke Mills (& Norman Blake on electric mandolin) perform "September Gurls" Big Star Third at Mason Hall, Baruch College in NYC on March 26, 2011.
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The mill itself is a large four-story building that was built in 1876 complete with 1,500 pound French Burr Mill Stones and a 100 ft. wooden raceway that feeds water to a water turbine - not a vertical water wheel. The mill was constructed in 1876 by John Martin when he came to Georgia to mine for gold. Unlike most miners, Mr. Martin made Sautee-Nacoochee Valley his permanent homeIn 1902 Dr. Lamartine G. Hardman, governor of Georgia from 1927 -1931, bought the mill and named it "Nora Mill" in memory of his sister Nora. Nora Mill remained in the Hardman Family until 1998, when it, along with 300 surrounding acres, was purchased by a group of investors associated with Nacoochee Village, Ltd.
Mill Race park is composed of 83 acres (340,000 m2) including a playground and an 84 ft (26 m) observation tower. The land is subject to severe annual flooding, during which sixty percent of the park is under water. The site features a loop road around the perimeter of the park, path systems, and two small lakes connected by a wooden bridge.
This is an old mill site in Stokes County. Handheld...I guess I need to start carrying a tripod to work.
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
Hewetson Ltd Embroiderers (Albion Mill) Macclesfield
My Grandmother started work here aged 14 (1934) on a Schiffli embroidery machine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxnY4kAxv_I
Augustus Hewetson established this company
in Macclesfield in 1898 with four hand
embroidery machines. Over the next few years
it was gradually expanded, with the purchase
of further hand embroidery machines, and
schiffli machines in 1905. In 1927 automatic
machines were installed and then the firm claimed
to be ‘the largest manufacturer of all types
of embroidery in the world’.
During the two world wars Hewetson was
a major supplier of badges for the Allied
armed forces, embroidering fifty million
badges during the Second World War.
By 1958 there were about 1,000 employees
on several different sites. During all this
time (1898 – 1958) the company was tightly
controlled by one family, the Hewetsons.
There was a change in ownership in 1982
when it joined the Berisford group. Following
re-structuring of the company in 1993
Hewetson ceased to operate as a schiffli
manufacturing company.
Winchester City Mill
Bridge Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9BH
The Winchester City Mill is a restored water mill situated on the River Itchen in the centre of the ancient English city of Winchester. The mill is owned by the National Trust.
The mill was first recorded, milling corn, in the Domesday Book of 1086. The mill was last rebuilt in 1744 and remained in use until the early 1900s. The mill was then used as a laundry until 1928 when it was offered for sale. In order to prevent its demolition, a group of benefactors bought the mill and presented it to the National Trust. In 1932 the mill was leased to the Youth Hostels Association for use as a hostel, a usage that continued until recently.
In 2004, a 12-year restoration program came to a successful conclusion, and after a hiatus of at least 90 years the mill again milled flour by water power. The water wheel can be seen working daily throughout the year and flour milling is demonstrated every weekend of the year, and most Wednesdays during the Summer. The mill building also houses a National Trust shop.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_City_Mill
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History
Winchester City Mill is located on a site used for milling flour since Saxon times.
It spans the River Itchen in the heart of Winchester, once capital of late Anglo-Saxon England. King Alfred held court here in the 8th century.
The name City Mill came into being after Queen Mary Tudor gifted it to the city in 1554 following her wedding in the nearby cathedral.
Domesday and a time of prosperity.
A Saxon mill, owned by the Benedictine nunnery of Wherwell, almost certainly existed on the site more than 1000 years ago. The location is close to a major entrance to the city where the East Gate in the city walls led to Soke Bridge.
In 1086, the Domesday survey records the mill as returning a rent of 48s (£2.40) per annum to the Abbess. This amount was well above the average mill rent in southern England.
Wherwell Abbey leased the mill to a long series of medieval millers and it prospered for more than 200 years until the end of the 13th century; the Abbess received a healthy £4 per annum rent in 1295. During this period the mill became known as Eastgate Mill.
Decline, and Eastgate Mill becomes derelict.
A series of bad harvests in the early 14th century, coupled with Winchester having lost its capital status, quickly reduced the value of the mill. The Black Death, which struck in 1348, followed by the loss of the wool trade to Calais soon after, would have accelerated the decline. The mill eventually fell out of use and it appears from records to have been derelict by 1471.
A royal gift to Winchester.
King Henry Vlll took the still derelict Eastgate Mill into Crown ownership at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1439. His daughter Queen Mary Tudor then gave it to the city in 1554, partly to offset the cost of her wedding to Philip of Spain in the nearby cathedral. It was also partly in response to earlier pleas for financial assistance from the impoverished city.
At this time, the mill became known as the City Mill. Despite many attempts with successive leases, the city failed to have the mill restored and for many years they only received 10/- (50p) rent per annum plus ‘two chickens for the Mayor’.
The present mill is built.
Finally in 1743 a new tenant, the tanner James Cooke, rebuilt the mill. This is the building you see today. The central section with its fine gable was completed first and the eastern section was added later. It seems materials from an earlier building were re-used, as some of the roof timbers date back to the 15th century.
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Also see:-
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/winchester-city-mill
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/winchester-city-mill/features/a-...
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Editor: Gertrude Himmelfarb
Cover: Caricature of J. S. Mill by 'Spy' from Vanity Fair, 1873
Pelican Classics, 1974, AC28
Graue Mill in Oak Brook (1854). It still operates as a gristmill, although the machinery is not connected to the wheel in the millrace. It originally went out of business in the 1910s, but was recognized as a site of potential historic interest, prompting the Civilian Conservation Corps to rehabilitate it in the early 1940s.
Photos testing my new Sigma lens on a day out.
Canon EOS 60D and Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8
Raw Conversion Adobe Camera Raw 6.5
Post Processed Elements 9.0
nrhp # 82004523- Established 1860 The mill was originally a water-powered gristmill and then a steam powered burr mill. It was sold by Charles E. Barnard to Major T.C. Jordan in 1874. Jordan sold the mill to Dr. J. J. Hannah in 1943 where it became a health spa with mineral water. Dr. Hannah added a wing to the building. In 1949 it became a hospital and clinic with the arrival of Dr. Roger Marks. The building was sold to Dr. Marks and Dr. Robert English in 1955, and it became the Marks-English Hospital and Clinic. The building was sold to Richard H. Moore in 1979. Mr. Moore gifted the mill to the Somervell History Foundation in 2005.
from Wikipedia
There are several different machines that are powered by the waterwheel through an elaborate belt system.
Hammer mill, IQR FlexHammer 1800 Mobile. Ideal for crushing och shredding waste such as recycling wood, industrial waste, railway sleepers, tree tops and branches, bark, household waste and more.