View from ESE showing SE and NE fronts

Description View from ESE showing SE and NE fronts

Date 11/8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 739732

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Waulk mill, Nos 2-4 Main Road, Minishant, South Ayrshire This shows the mill from the south-east. It would originally have had water-powered machinery for waulking home-spun and woven cloth. The scale suggests that it may have been a base for organised domestic industry, rather than serving purely local needs. The building owes its survival to conversion to a village hall. The raised end section houses a staircase, and roof-ridge ventilators have been added. Otherwise the building seems remarkably unaltered, and is a rare survivor of this type of building. Ayrshire had an extensive rural woollen industry until the late 19th century, mainly supplying local needs. The industry was initially entirely domestic, the first part of the process to be mechanised being waulking: the felting of the surface of woollen cloth to make it more windproof. This building housed that process. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/42/17

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