View of mill from SW. Digital image of D 3329 CN.

Description View of mill from SW. Digital image of D 3329 CN.

Date 13/8/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 738414

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3329 CN

Scope and Content Boloquoy Steading and Mill, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from south-west This early to mid-19th-century farm complex with its meal mill and parallel byre range are significant survivors of a working farm. In 1996 when this photograph was taken, Boloquoy housed the last working, oil-powered threshing machine on Sanday. This is the mill from the south-west showing the waterwheel on the south elevation. The mill was a water-powered grain mill until the 1890s, then it was converted to a water-powered threshing mill for Boloquoy steading. This was in use until the 1950s when a fixed barn threshing machine was installed. The slightly taller unit to the left was the kiln. The threshing machine was moved because a lot of grain and straw was lost on the 300m journey from the stackyard to the mill and back to the byre. However this method was used for 50 years. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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