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  1. urbanchemist

    Report - Water Mills 58 - Edrington Castle Mill (Berwickshire, May, 2025)

    History. There isn’t much information online other than the present building dates from 1789 and the original roof was replaced with a tin one sometime after 1999. It last ran in 1937 (or maybe 1948, accounts differ) and is said to retain much of the original machinery although there are no...
  2. Landie_Man

    Report - Dalton Mills, Keighley, Yorkshire - May 2025

    Having visited this mill all the way back in 2011 before it was all totally empty; it was nice to see it again with better equipment and 14 years more exploring under my belt. Although; sadly the main mill had experienced a large fire some years earlier, leaving the exploring to be all down to...
  3. mookster

    Report - Dalton Mills, Keighley May 2025

    Very late to the party on this one. It'll forever be somewhere that I really should have done before the best bit completely burned down, but being a long way from home I never had the chance. Oh well. Visited on a weekend road trip up to the northern badlands with @CookieRaider. We had a very...
  4. Speed

    Report - Hield Brothers - Briggella Mills - Bradford - Feb 2021

    Been a while! a thread on Yew Tree got bumped earlier and it reminded me I never did get around to posting my photos from here. Tweek and Eric did get some photos up but I think we managed to see different bits to them. I was intending to go back and finish the site off before I did a report but...
  5. Webbs0710

    Report - Fletchers Paper Mill, Greenfield, Oct 23/Jan 25

    Taken my time getting this written up, but thought I'd post my take on this old classic as it's now been partially demolished. As soon as I heard they were finally tearing it down, I dragged my arse up north as I've never gotten around to doing it. We were pretty thorough, but with the sheer...
  6. HughieD

    Report - Tansley Wood Mills, Lumsdale, Derbyshire, March 2025

    1. The History Tansley Wood Mills are located in the Derbyshire village of Lumsdale, just outside of Matlock. It has been the site of industrial buildings from right back in the second half of the 1700’s. The first mill buildings were constructed in 1783 by Messrs Osgathorpe and Prestwidge to...
  7. Webbs0710

    Report - Tone Works, Wellington, Feb/Mar 25

    Local one for me, and one which has proven a tough nut to crack in comparison to Tonedale Mill. I was tempted to go to one of the council's open days last summer purely to get a peek, but every weekend they had one on I was elsewhere in the country 😂 Explored twice to try and get decent shots...
  8. dansgas1000

    Report - Bailey Mill, Delph - December 2024

    Introduction Another mill me and @JakeV50 visited on our recent trip to the Manchester area. We didn’t know what to expect with this one, as we pinned it years ago and decided to visit it as we were only around 10 minutes away. We were pleasantly surprised by its remaining features despite being...
  9. urbanchemist

    Report - Water Mills 57 - Tinnycross Mill (Offaly, Ireland, 2024)

    An old (ca. 1800) and fairly complete corn mill - ‘corn’ often meant oats for these small mills in rural Ireland. Grinding oats is a two stage process. The grain was first dried in a kiln to make the inedible outer shell come off more easily when ground between ‘shelling stones’. The unwanted...
  10. MacMan

    Report - Dalton Mills: New Mill, Tower Mill and Engine House - Keighley - January 2025

    Background History Construction of Dalton mills by Joseph Craven started in 1866 and they were in full operation by 1870. The complex consisted of three mills: the Tower Mill, the Genappe Mill and the New Mill, and these were constructed in phases. At their peak the mills employed over 2000...
  11. albino-jay

    Report - Herdman's Flax Mills, Sion Mills, Northern Ireland, Mar 24

    History Sion Mills was laid out as a model linen village by the Herdman brothers, James, John and George. In 1835 they converted an old flour mill on the River Mourne into a flax spinning mill, and erected a bigger mill behind it in the 1850s The River Mourne was the reason that Herdman's Mill...
  12. Speed

    Report - J. B. and S. Lees Trident Steelworks / Albion Steel Strip Mills - West Bromwich - Jan to Sept 2024

    Actually i'm lying a bit, this wasn't a foundry, it was a rolling mill that rolled specialised steel strip, mainly for use in bandsaw blades I think. Another plant with a long history formerly known as the Nelson/Albion Ironworks and later Albion Steel Strip Mills. More recently Trident...
  13. jezzyboo

    Report - New Mills Culvert , Marsden , August , 2024

    Another culvert thats been on my to do list for some time now ! Set in the picturesque town of Marsden the access to this at the downstream entrance was nice and easy at around 140 meters its not to long but quite broad ( in the middle ). Culverting the river Colne its also a tall culvert with a...
  14. urbanchemist

    Report - Water Mills 56 - Newhall Mill (Kildare, Ireland, 2024)

    An old corn mill near Naas, which is the sort of commuter town outside Dublin you normally just drive past. I haven’t found any history at all for this mill online, but maybe there is some in a local archive. Anyway, it’s shown on the map with a long mill pond to the south, and two tailraces...
  15. urbanchemist

    Report - Water Mills 55 - Croucheston Mill (Wiltshire, 2024)

    A water-powered corn mill is shown on old maps at Croucheston, near Salisbury: There is a small building currently at this location, but the footprint is slightly different suggesting the original mill may have been demolished or rebuilt. Nevertheless I had a look anyway and found the mill...
  16. urbanchemist

    Report - Water Mills 54 - Ballyonan Mill (Kildare, Ireland, 2024)

    Ireland has a number of largish flour mills dating from early 1800s when agricultural trade with Britain was increasing due the Napoleonic wars. Many of them are listed (called ‘protected’ in Eire) but are little more than shells - others such as Ballyduff and Coola still have some equipment...
  17. KPUrban_

    Report - Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey - May 2024

    Royal Gunpowder Mills It had been a good few years since I'd last attempted this site. In around Summer of 2017, having walked all the way from Cuffley for some daft reason, we quickly called off the visit for a reason I also can't quite remember. Fast forward until a few weeks prior, on the...
  18. urbanchemist

    Report (Permission Visit) - Water Mills 53 - Factory Isaf Woollen Mill (Abercegir, Wales, 2024)

    This is well known place, among mill enthusists anyway, because it contains one the few remaining fulling stocks which is not in a museum. More details at Factory-isaf, Abercegir: Fulling mill wheel and machinery, Glantwymyn, Powys. The remains of the woollen factory are currently part of a...
  19. urbanchemist

    Report - Water Mills 51 - Ballyduff Mill Water Turbine (Offaly, Ireland, 2023)

    This mill was described as partly wrecked in a survey about 20 years ago, although there was said to be some machinery, including a water turbine. It’s even more wrecked now and is being used as a dust collection box by the surrounding timber processing business, so everything is covered in fine...
  20. urbanchemist

    Report - Water Mills 50 - Coola Mills Water Turbines (Kilbeggan, Ireland, 2024)

    Sitting in a Centra having a sandwich and browsing maps I saw this place was just down the road. From the available information it sounded like another roofless shell, COOLA, WESTMEATH - Buildings of Ireland. However some half-hearted Googling showed that a hydro plant was installed in 2007, and...
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