View from N showing N front of mill with granary block on right

Description View from N showing N front of mill with granary block on right

Date 15/10/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 686355

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Poldrate Mill, Haddington, East Lothian This was a large water-powered meal mill, on a medieval site. The present mill buildings date at least in part from a rebuilding in 1842. The main mill building is a three-storeyed structure, and was driven by a mid-breast paddle wheel. At right angles to this is a very large granary, with gangways linking it to the mill. This shows the mill from the north, with the granary on the right. The chimney on the left was for a boiler supplying steam to an auxiliary steam engine. Next to the right is the kiln for drying oats, with its ventilator. Poldrate Mill was converted into a community centre from 1968 by the Lamp of the Lothian Trust, with little loss of character, though the chimney seen here has gone. The wheel-house front and roof were removed to reveal the wheel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/31/26

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/686355

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap