Southvoe, Horizontal Mill Upstream view of sluice and mill, from N

Description Southvoe, Horizontal Mill Upstream view of sluice and mill, from N

Date 8/5/1976

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 463716

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Croft House Museum, Southvoe, Shetland This museum was created in the 1970s from the buildings of a 19th century croft. These consist of a house and steading range, with a corn-drying kiln and barn, and three horizontal mills, one completely restored and another re-roofed. This view shows the lowest of the three mills in the museum, from the upstream side. In the foreground are the sluices to control the flow of water to the wheel. The one on the right has its boards in place, directing the flow of water back to the stream. This type of mill, with its horizontal waterwheel driving directly the top stone of the millstones, was very generally used in Shetland, where subsistence farming was general, and the timber needed for vertical mills was scarce. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H76/72/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/463716

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap