View from SW showing overshot wheel
SC 686377
Description View from SW showing overshot wheel
Date 15/10/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 686377
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Thornton Mill, East Lothian This was a small water-powered meal mill, probably of late 18th or early 19th century date, but with a waterwheel built in the late 19th or early 20th century. The mill was apparently built to supply local demand for oatmeal and animal provender. This shows the waterwheel, of the overshot type, about 0.6m by 4.9m, with the remains of the sheet-iron launder taking the water to the wheel. The large windows above the wheel were inserted when the mill was converted into a small hosiery works, probably in the 1950s. The mill was in 1968 occupied by the Thornton Mill Knitwear Co Ltd, and all the mill machinery had been removed, except the waterwheel and a large spur wheel inside, possibly dating from an earlier conversion to a saw mill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/32/9
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