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This mill was built in the early 1800's next to the Lete river below the beautiful medieval village of Prata Sannita. It was likely built by the Procascciante family who owned several mills in this area and would have employed around 30 workers. The water driven mill continued operating using...

According to old maps a former grain mill on the Stradey Estate just outside Llanelli was converted sometime before 1913 to provide electricity, presumably for Stradey Castle. I haven’t found any information or previous pictures, but it seemed likely to contain a water turbine. It’s a small...

Simpson Clough Mill in Heywood was originally built in the 1840s and started life as a woollen mill. In 1939, the site was bought by J. R. Crompton and was used for food storage during the Second World War. It was later converted into a paper mill in 1946. The mill became known for producing...

The First Explore I did this year when getting back into things Not Much to see really. There used to be a lot more left but a fire finished off most the building. The dodgy wall in the middle and the roof beams have now all collapses from what I could see from another explorers recent visit...

Another from the backlog - a little rural mill said to date from ca. 1800, but other than that I’ve found no useful information. Photos are phone and, as usual, are literally a summary of what’s inside and how it worked. The ca. 1900 map below shows a separate kiln - the building is still...

This is similar to the previous mill in Wexford (Mullinderry) in that there was something to find, albeit not what I was expecting. It’s just called ‘flour mill’ on maps so in the absence of any other information I’ve named it after the local township - Irish townships are like parishes in...

Another explored for posterity - I knew it was a wreck, but occasionally there are interesting things to find. The mills themselves are found by scanning old OS maps, and some, like this one, also have an entry in the heritage list although it’s usually quite generic: “The ivy-enveloped shell...

Working through a backlog of old Irish - actually UK at that time - mills. According to the national heritage survey of Eire, which records some of the older buildings, this one was mostly a wreck in 2004. Unusually for this rather useless survey there are even three pictures of the inside...

This was built as a large grain mill in 1800 but is shown as a maltings by 1900 on old maps. It’s been been disused since the 70s and is now mostly a shell. I was interested in Duninga because the original pair of water wheels were replaced by a water turbine at some stage and I wondered if it...

Few more pics from the archive, thought I'd slap a report together, be rude not to. Been sat on these for just 6 years History: Founded in the early-to-mid 19th century by John Croysdale, it initially operated as a bone mill before reconfiguring into a steam-powered corn mill. Following a...

Gunpowder Mills Chilworth. Not sure if this is worthy enough o be on here..but it has a lot of history towards it! The mills were built over 300 years ago and were operational from the 1620s until 1920, being most extensive and productive in the 17th century and from the 1880s to the end of...

surprisingly i cant find anyone who has done a report on this site before so i figured i would give it a shot, if anyone has anymore info on the site i will happily add it too my report THE HISTORY The site was originally constructed as a horsehair factory in 1851 and after the horsehair factory...

1. The History Located beside Padbury Brook, near Twyford, Buckinghamshire, Three Bridge Mill is a three-story watermill with an attached house. A mill has existed on site since medieval times and has had various names including Tunbridge Mill, Cowley Mill and Bridge Mill. It was owned by the...

I first looked at Birks Mill about 5 years ago but didn’t get to see what I was mainly interested in, the water turbine which powered it. At that time the mill was being used to store mostly non mill-related bric-a-brac and old cars and was due to be demolished. Googling it again recently I was...

I have fond memories of this place from the 1990's; it supplied the electronic components not available at Maplins; VCR and car radio spares, and the employees were time served bench engineers who were happy to advise relevant information. But then sadly, Wizard Distributors moved and vanished...