Meikle Millbank Mill; Interior View of grindstones and hopper

Description Meikle Millbank Mill; Interior View of grindstones and hopper

Date 6/2/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 590439

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Meikle Millbank Mill, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire Built in the late 18th/early 19th century, this example of a small rural corn mill had two pairs of millstones driven by an internal overshot waterwheel, which measured 1.06m by 5.79m. It was T-shaped with the kiln in the projecting wing. This shows one of the two pairs of millstones, with, above it, the hopper from which corn was fed to the stones. On the left is the wooden casing of a bucket conveyor used to convey corn, husked in one pair of stones, for grinding to meal in the other. It seems likely that the kiln in this mill was an addition, in which case the main mill building may have been older than most of the west central Scottish mills surviving in the 1960s. Since the 1960s the mill has become totally ruinous. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/161/1A

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