Perth, West Mill Street, City Mills and Granary View from WSW showing WSW of kiln and part of SSE front of lower city mills

Description Perth, West Mill Street, City Mills and Granary View from WSW showing WSW of kiln and part of SSE front of lower city mills

Date 23/4/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 587379

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lower City Mills, Perth, Perthshire (Perth and Kinross council area) This mill was built as an oatmeal mill, and was powered from the Perth City Lade, which draws water from the river Almond. There is a central low-breast internal waterwheel which latterly drove three pairs of stones. This view shows the kiln, which was used for drying the oats before grinding into oatmeal. There was a fireplace in the base, and the pyramidal ventilator drew the hot gases from the fire through grain spread on a perforated floor. The mills were disused in 1966, but intact. They were repaired and converted into a visitor attraction in the 1980s, retaining the wheel and millstones. The nearby granary is now flats, and the Upper City Mills an hotel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H66/14/1C

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/587379

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