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Birsay, Boardhouse Mills View from SE showing waterwheel on Old Barony Corn Mill and lade of Boardhouse Threshing Mill
SC 459583
Description Birsay, Boardhouse Mills View from SE showing waterwheel on Old Barony Corn Mill and lade of Boardhouse Threshing Mill
Date 1/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 459583
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content 'Old' Mill, Barony Mills, Birsay, Orkney This was a water-powered corn mill, rubble-built, on a rectangular plan, driven by a low breast paddle waterwheel about 4.3m in diameter. It is one of a group of three mills, with the new corn mill and Boardhouse Threshing Mill. This view shows the skeleton of the low-breast paddle wheel with its launder, on the gable of the mill. This mill was supplanted by the 'new' mill in 1873. This was a unique group of water-power sites in Orkney, and by the 1970s, in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/31/9
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/459583
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