View from W showing tower and WNW front of mill block with part of ancillary building in foreground

Description View from W showing tower and WNW front of mill block with part of ancillary building in foreground

Date 11/1/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 775974

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content High Mill, Chapel Street, Carluke, South Lanarkshire This shows the mill from the west. The cap of the mill, carrying the sails, revolved on top of this tower. The building on the right, which incorporates a kiln in the right-hand end, was added after wind power had been abandoned in the mid-19th century in favour of steam power. This mill was adapted to be driven by a gas engine in the late 19th century. It appears to have operated until after World War II, and was used as a store until the 1970s. It was the taken over by a local history group who did some clearance and repairs, but its future is still uncertain. This tower windmill was built in 1797, in a period when iron gearing was transforming the performance of both wind and water mills in Scotland, and when improved sail design was making windmills more powerful. This was one of a group of large Scottish mills built to use these new technologies. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/2/11

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