View of mill from SE. Digital image of D 3332.

Description View of mill from SE. Digital image of D 3332.

Date 13/8/1996

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

Catalogue Number SC 738431

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3332

Scope and Content Boloquoy Steading and Mill, Sanday, Orkney Islands, from south-east 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 viewed from the south-east, with the undershot waterwheel on the left. The top of the concrete-lined lade is just visible (centre). The wheel was turned by water hitting the wooden floats from below, rather than above (overshot) and turning the wheel clockwise, against the flow of the water. The taller section was originally the kiln. After the grain milling machinery was removed in the 1890s, a roller feed threshing machine with a loading door was installed. This was used and driven by the waterwheel until the 1950s. Before 1985 this threshing machine was removed and the mill building became a general storage space. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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