Meikle Millbank Mill; Interior View of fanner
SC 590440
Description Meikle Millbank Mill; Interior View of fanner
Date 6/2/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 590440
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Meikle Millbank Mill, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire Dating from the late 18th/early 19th century, this T-shaped, small rural corn mill had two pairs of millstones which were driven by an internal overshot waterwheel, measuring 1.06m by 5.79m. The kiln was located in the projecting wing. This shows the fanners, used to blow the husks of the corn out of the stream of mixed husks and corn kernels flowing from the shelling millstones. Behind the round hole is the fan which provided the current of air needed for this process. 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 H67/161/2A
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