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Mill House is in the hamlet of Coombe in North Cornwall.
It is divided into two for holiday letting.
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.
The traditional method of grinding the palm seed to produce palm oil. Photos from a visit to a nearby village in Bagan. These Brahmin cattle are a common site in rural parts of Burma.
Todmorden Mills was a small settlement located in the Don River valley in Toronto, Ontario. It started out as a lumber mill in the 1790s. Originally known as "Don Mills", it grew into a small industrial complex and village before becoming part of East York in the 20th century. Currently the valley site is occupied by the Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre, which includes the museum, art gallery, a theatre and a forest preserve.
Some more photos from the Ahmedabad Mill Owners Association Building by Le Corbusier.
Probably the nicest Corb building we saw on the trip, and certainly the only of his buildings which I've liked instantly (the others have grown on me through the experience of visiting them), the Mill Owners Building was basically a series of concrete-and-stone-defined semi-internal shaded spaces surrounding a large, oval conference room. Spaces in which the members could 'mill' about, I guess! (fnar fnar)
Anyway, my tutors were doing a project which involved various temporary artistic installations in the building, so I accompanied them and spent a happy afternoon photographing, chatting to the few staff who were milling around, and enjoying the spaces both inside the building and the views from the rooftop.
Here's the location, and I cannot recommend it enough.
The Darnley Grist Mill was named after Lord Darnley, a famous ancestor of James Crook. The mill was constructed between 1811 and 1813. The mill was made of stone from a quarry near morden's mills downstream. Originally, the building was square and three storeys high.
A nine-metre-high overshot waterwheel was mounted on the outside wall beside spencer creek. Water was drawn over the wheel to power the mill. Inside the building were four sets of grindstones used for feed and flour production.
After James Crook's death in 1860, the mill was sold to James Stutt and Robert Sanderson who converted it into a paper mill. After Stutt bought out Sanderson in 1880, he added a steam boiler to heat water for paper making and to have an alternative power source. On July 9th, 1885, the boiler exploded, causing damage to the mill and killing two men.
While leased to the Greensville Paper Company in the 1930's, the wooden floors were replaced by concrete. In 1943, the mill was gutted by a fire and left in ruins.
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.
Wilhelm Germanovich Stoll (February 18, 1842, Radziwillov, Volyn Governorate – c. 1920, Grafskaya village near Voronezh) was a Russian industrialist, innovative entrepreneur, public figure, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and athlete.
German by origin. Personal nobleman. Since 1844, his parents settled in Voronezh. Stoll's father, Herman Friedrichovich, was the city's chief doctor, who did a lot for the development of health care in Voronezh. Wilhelm's sister, Anna, is the great-grandmother of the musician M. L. Rostropovich.
V. G. Stoll received an excellent technical education. He graduated from the Voronezh gymnasium, studied at the physics and mathematics department of St. Petersburg University, and completed his education in Berlin. Then he did an internship in Europe.
In 1869, he opened a workshop that gradually grew into the largest enterprise in the Russian Empire for the production of agricultural equipment, producing ploughs, harrows, straw cutters, hydraulic presses, equipment for mills, flour mills on a cast-iron pedestal, oil and diesel engines (the latter with a capacity of up to 130 horsepower), steam engines, hydraulic oil presses and even equipment for power plants and cinematography. The factory was constantly modernized. In 1879, Stoll's factory was the first in Voronezh to use a steam engine.
In 1883-1891, Wilhelm Stoll was a member of the Voronezh City Duma.
At the end of the 19th century, the city’s first joint-stock company, V. G. Stoll and Co., was organized on the basis of the “Partnership of the Mechanical Plant Stoll and Company,” where he became a co-owner.
It included German, Swedish, English, French, and American companies. In the early 1900s, in addition to the Voronezh plant, the company owned a large plant in Chelyabinsk and warehouses in 80 settlements. In terms of labor productivity and authority in the industrial world, there was no more powerful Voronezh company at that time. Warehouses with its branded agricultural machinery were located throughout the Russian Empire from Warsaw to Vladivostok. Its products won the most prestigious awards at international exhibitions.
V. G. Stoll was not only a successful manufacturer, but also an active figure in the field of charity. From 1895, he financed the Voronezh branch of the Mariinsky Guardianship of the Blind, and in 1897, he built an eye hospital at his own expense.
Stoll allocated large funds for the maintenance of the "School for the Blind", which occupied the building where the Voronezh Museum of Local History is now located.
At the end of the 19th century, V.G. Stoll moved with his wife to a dacha estate at Grafskaya station.
The history of the Voronezh children's sanatorium, which is still operating today, began with this dacha. Stoll gave most of his dacha estates to it. A shelter-school for blind girls was opened in the main mansion, where they were taught music, embroidery and massage by teachers specially invited from the capital. These skills were supposed to help the blind adapt to independent life. A family atmosphere reigned in the shelter. Theatrical productions were staged with the participation of blind girls as actresses.
Wilhelm Stoll was also the organizer of a cycling club in Voronezh (1883). Thanks to him, the first bicycles appeared in Voronezh and mass competitions began to be held among fans of this new sport at that time. Wilhelm Stoll died around 1920, while in his country house in the village near the Grafskaya station. He was buried near the Tolshevsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. The grave has not survived.
Looking along the mill race in Brandywine Park on an autumn's morning. The bridge in the background is the Van Buren Street Bridge.
Edward Mill of 1924, was one of the last to be built in Congleton. It was a silk mill and replace the Albert Mill of 1871. It is now a gym and fitness centre.
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!
On the first floor of the mill; this is where grain is poured from hoppers into between millstones and ground into flour.
Taken during London Open House 2018
House Mill
The Worlds largest tidal mill. 5-storey, timber-framed, brick-clad timber watermill with four waterwheels, originally built 1776 to mill grain for distillery trade. Operational until 1940. On historic 3 Mills Site.
History
The House Mill was built in 1776 by Daniel Bisson, on the site of an earlier mill and between two houses occupied by the miller and his family, hence its name. The Clock Mill opposite was rebuilt in 1817. There was also a third mill, a windmill, which survived until about 1840. The House Mill continued to operate until 1941 and the Clock Mill until 1952.
Restoration
In 1989 work began on the House Mill and the fabric of the Mill has been fully restored. As part of the work to restore the site, the Miller’s House, which had been demolished in the late 1950s, was reconstructed in 1993/4. The façade was rebuilt to the 1763 design with reused 18th century bricks. Using many of the original materials recovered from the bombed site, the ground floor of the Miller’s House has been reconstructed as original, whilst the rest of the building is a new structure.
The Miller’s House provides a visitor, information, and education centre, with meeting rooms for hire and a small cafe. It was funded by the European Union. In 1996 it won a Civic Trust Commendation for outstanding architecture.
The garden was laid out to include a combination of design suggestions by pupils of Sarah Bonnell School, and includes original kitchen garden plants and a herb garden.
[Open House website]
The area known as Three Mills Island is a stretch of land surrounded by three channels of the ancient River Lea. There have been mills in this area for many centuries – according to the Domesday Survey, there were at least eight mills here at that point in time. Over time, wind power was used to drive mills with the addition of windmills. But, this area remains, perhaps, best known for its tidal mills. It was to become the home of the biggest tidal mill in the world.
The mills on this site were historically able to take advantage of the tidal flow of the river up to the Thames Estuary and the local Bow Creek. During its heyday, the mills here could work for up to eight hours in each tide, allowing them to become major producers in London.
In medieval times, Three Mills was the main producer of flour for local bakers who baked bread for the city. The mills here also had other uses, however, and at least one was a gunpowder mill. The site was largely developed in the 1720s when it was purchased by a group of local residents, including Peter Lefevre, a Huguenot refugee from France.
In the 1770s, the owners built the current House Mill building. Its name was derived from its location between two houses for staff who worked on the site as millers. The second of the mills, the Clock Mill, was constructed in 1817 and the third was a windmill. This site was a thriving concern in the 18th century. As well as the mills that worked on site, the owners also ran a distillery and piggery and employed many local people.
The House Mill was damaged by a fire in 1802 and needed to be partly rebuilt. Bombing during the Second World War effectively closed the site down in terms of milling production. The last of the mills to be in operation was the House Mill itself, which was ultimately shut down in 1941. This building now has a Grade I listing.
[EastLondonHistory website]
This is the oldest mill in the British Isles and is believed to pre-date 1627, or at least those bits that have not been rebuilt!
The Stillwater Mill Fire - May 17, 1984
The Stillwater Mill was located in the Village of Stillwater in the Town of Smithfield. For an historical account of the fire, see the book, "Remembering Smithfield, Sketches of Apple Valley" by Jim Ignasher, The History Press, 2009.
Smithfield, RI. Rhode Island
The 'new' mill building viewed from the old mill.
Torr Vale Mill in the Derbyshire town of New Mills was the longest continuous running textile mill in the UK until it closed in 2000. Inside are abandoned cotton racks and looms with half woven towels. Despite its dramatic location nestled in the deep Goyt Valley, it has proved difficult to convert to a new use due to restricted site access. Several failed attempts to rehabilitate the building mean that it lies derelict, with the owner taking only the bare essential steps to secure the site from vandalism and pigeon infestation.
A family living in one of the Cone Mill Villages poses in front of their house, circa 1900.
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Weaving Mill built in 1907 by George D. Gibson and Andrew G. Lumgair. Changed ownership several times until finally vacated following flooding in 1977. Now partially occupied by Scottish Borders Council library service. Information courtesy of Scottish Borders from Above by Alastair Campbell, published by Deveron Publications of Kelso in 2007.
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.