This started life as a water-powered corn mill and was converted and extended into a wool processing factory in the early 1900s.
It was apparently the last woollen mill to operate in Anglesey
https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/9622...sey-tweed-millmelin-llywenan-factory-llewenan.
The maps below show the mill in 1901 (top) with a water wheel on the north gable, and extended in 1969 (below).
The tail race went to power another mill to the south-west, which now seems to be an outbuilding of someone’s house.
I’d looked at the mill during the summer without success - I probably got in this time courtesy of local kids judging by the drinks bottles.
Pictures are a mixture of phone and camera.
All that’s left of the water wheel is a bit of the axle.
There are only two things inside - a textile machine in the process of falling into the basement….
…and a big steam-punk carding engine, which occupies most of one side of the place.
Views of the left end and looking down on the rollers from above.
A maker’s plate on the left of the big machine, and another one tied to a rafter half way along.
Both of these Huddersfield manufacturers made wool-processing stuff - I’ve read it was quite common in Wales to get machinery second-hand from the larger northern mills.
It was apparently the last woollen mill to operate in Anglesey
https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/9622...sey-tweed-millmelin-llywenan-factory-llewenan.
The maps below show the mill in 1901 (top) with a water wheel on the north gable, and extended in 1969 (below).
The tail race went to power another mill to the south-west, which now seems to be an outbuilding of someone’s house.
I’d looked at the mill during the summer without success - I probably got in this time courtesy of local kids judging by the drinks bottles.
Pictures are a mixture of phone and camera.
All that’s left of the water wheel is a bit of the axle.
There are only two things inside - a textile machine in the process of falling into the basement….
…and a big steam-punk carding engine, which occupies most of one side of the place.
Views of the left end and looking down on the rollers from above.
A maker’s plate on the left of the big machine, and another one tied to a rafter half way along.
Both of these Huddersfield manufacturers made wool-processing stuff - I’ve read it was quite common in Wales to get machinery second-hand from the larger northern mills.
