View looking NNW showing part of weir with mills in background

Description View looking NNW showing part of weir with mills in background

Date 4/4/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 699270

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Bermaline Mills (Gimmers' Mills), Whittinghame Drive, Haddington, East Lothian The earliest reference to a mill on this site is in 1408, but most of what survives probably dates back to the early years of the 19th century, when many older mills were rebuilt with money from the high grain prices during the French wars. This mill was taken over in 1898 by John Montgomerie to make malt flour. This shows the mill from the south, with the weir on the river Tyne which supplies water to the two internal low-breast paddle wheels. The oldest part of the complex is the four-storey range at the end of the weir, with kiln at its left-hand end. This complex is still producing malt flour, and is now owned by Pure Malt Products Ltd. The premises have been little altered externally since the 1960s, and still dominate the east end of Haddington. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/20/23

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/699270

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap