mills

1. The History The former Maykong Godown silk factory is located at 364 Castle Peak Road in Tsuen Wan in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It consists of two buildings which were once part of Mayar Silk Mills (HK) Ltd. The foundations of the company can be traced back to the Shanghai-based silk...

Hi everyone! Long time lurker - first time poster so excuse me if this isn’t formatted brilliantly. Decided to take a day off and check out Tansley Wood Mills up in Matlock, Derbyshire. Haven’t really been urbexing before, and recommend the site if you’re just starting out. Very easy to find and...

I’ve had this one marked as a water-powered site on Google maps so long the pin can no longer be deleted. The reason I never bothered to stop before was that its such an obvious place that it was bound to be empty, which it is. Then passing through one day the road ahead was blocked and I...

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...

There were once many mills on the River Nore as it winds through Kilkenny City. At least 17 are shown on ca. 1900 OS maps, including grain mills, textile mills, woodworking mills, stone mills, a paper mill and a bone crushing mill. What these all have in common is that they were originally...

The History Founded in 1665, the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey began as a small private gunpowder works powered by the River Lea. Its location offered abundant water for driving machinery while keeping the hazardous process away from densely populated areas. As Britain's military...

The History Founded in 1665, the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey began as a small private gunpowder works powered by the River Lea. Its location offered abundant water for driving machinery while keeping the hazardous process away from densely populated areas. As Britain's military...

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...

Some of the also-rans from looking at watermills in Cumbria. This sort of post is really aimed at people googling a particular mill to find out something about it since there aren’t any pictures for most of them. The only qualification for inclusion is that there be at least something mill-like...

The Clashawaun textile mill is by far the most interesting industrial relic in Clara Report - - Clashawaun Jute Works (Clara, Ireland, 2024) | Industrial Sites. However there were also some water powered grain mills and and I’ve occasionally stopped by the town to look at the remains of these...

The Hotspur Press, was a staple in Manchester's industrial & long history. Initially a cotton mill, established in 1801 on the banks of the River Medlock. Then The Percy brothers owned & ran the factory as a printing works from 1901 to 1996. The brickwork and general scale of this building...