General view looking north east at mill, water wheel behind brick wall Digital image of B 10006/10

Description General view looking north east at mill, water wheel behind brick wall Digital image of B 10006/10

Date 28/4/1982

Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco

Catalogue Number SC 743440

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 10006/10

Scope and Content North-west elevation of mill, Balwearie Flint Mill, Fife Flint was an important part of the ceramic industry in Kirkcaldy where there were four potteries. Balwearie Flint Mill was one of two in the area which catered for this need. Converted from an 18th-century corn mill, it became a flint mill in 1840 and closed in 1924. Nearby are the ruins of two calcining kilns. This shows the north-west elevation of the mill, with the waterwheel on the right-hand side. Built of freestone and roofed with local pantiles, the building is dated 1758. In 1933 the mill was purchased by Mrs Ronaldson of the mill house and her husband converted it into a workshop, using the wheel to drive a power saw and generate electricity. Balwearie is situated on the Tiel Burn and is 50m upstream from Hole Flint Mill, the other flint mill in the area. By 1865 the Tiel Burn supported corn and meal mills, flax-spinning and linen-weaving mills, a brewery, an ice factory and the two flint mills. Though a small stream, it has a good head of water, with a fast flow during the winter and never being too low to stop milling in the summer. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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