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View from SE showing waterwheel and part of mill
SC 643553
Description View from SE showing waterwheel and part of mill
Date 1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 643553
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Coldstream Mill, North Ayrshire This early 19th-century mill was still working intermittently in 1965, using a large overshot waterwheel, measuring about 1m by 6.1m, to supply power. It was the last water-powered corn mill of the traditional type to operate in north Ayrshire. This shows the waterwheel on the gable of the mill. It is unusually large for the size of the mill. Note that the mill is limewashed, typical of Ayrshire country buildings. The mill was still in usable condition in the mid-1970s. As far as the writer knows the mill was still using grindstones, unlike some other watermills which were using more modern equipment such as hammer mills. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/3/6
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