Gress, Corn Mill View from N
SC 488531
Description Gress, Corn Mill View from N
Date 25/4/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 488531
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former water-powered corn mill, Gress, Lewis, Ross and Cromarty This is the ruin of a conventional water-powered corn mill, built by the local landowner. The older part is rubble-built, and was driven by an overshot wheel about 4.3m in diameter. The building was later extended in cast-in-situ concrete. This view shows the mill from the upstream side, with the corn-drying kiln in the foreground, and the mill proper, with the remains of the millwheel, beyond. The concrete extension is to the right of the wheel. There were few of these lowland-type mills in Lewis, partly because the island's climate does not favour grain-growing, and partly because the crofters resented compulsion by the landowners to use the estate mills, preferring their own 'black' mills. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/21/10
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