Perth, City Mills. Detail of interior wooden wheel. Digital image of PT 1258.

Description Perth, City Mills. Detail of interior wooden wheel. Digital image of PT 1258.

Date 9/1963

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 745601

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 1258

Scope and Content View of waterwheel, Lower City Mills, Perth, Perth & Kinross Lower City Mills consisted of an oatmeal mill on the north side of the lade built in 1787, and a barley mill built in 1803 on the south side. Both were driven by a central low breastshot (water hits the wheel halfway down one side) waterwheel. Barley production ended in the 1930s, and oatmeal milling ceased in 1953. In the mid 1980s the mill was converted into a visitor centre. This shows the waterwheel which powers the three pairs of millstones (and other machinery) on the floor above. It made from four cast iron outer rings, each supported by eight wooden spokes. These support the 32 wooden paddles which are each 30cm deep. This large single wheel replaces two smaller wheels which powered the mill in its early years. The large waterwheel at Lower City Mills is contained within the building itself, and measures 3.74m wide and 4.27m in diameter. Water from the town lade (mill stream) flows into the centre of the building where it is controlled by a sluice. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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