View from W showing W front of granary block

Description View from W showing W front of granary block

Date 15/10/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 686358

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 granary from the east, showing its unusually large size. It may, in fact, have been built as a maltings, which would account for its large size. It is even possible that the complex was at one time a brewery or distillery. 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 H35/68/31/29

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/686358

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap