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Birsay, Boardhouse Mills View from NE showing waterwheel on Old Barony Corn Mill
SC 459586
Description Birsay, Boardhouse Mills View from NE showing waterwheel on Old Barony Corn Mill
Date 1/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 459586
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Boardhouse Threshing Mill, Barony Mills, Birsay, Orkney This is a water-powered threshing mill, rubble-built, incorporated in a steading, driven by a low breast waterwheel about 4.3m in diameter. It is one of a group of three mills, with the old and new corn mills. This view shows the low breast wheel with its launder, which runs under the threshing mill. The launder is curved downward to accelerate the stream of water before it hits the paddles, an Aberdeenshire design feature. This was a unique grouping of water-power sites in Orkney, and indeed in Scotland by the 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/31/12
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/459586
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