General view from ENE showing NE and SE fronts of mill blocks
SC 777913
Description General view from ENE showing NE and SE fronts of mill blocks
Date 25/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 777913
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Grain mill complex, Port Elphinstone, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire This shows the mills from the south-east, seen from an Aberdeen-Inverness diesel multiple-unit train. The three-storeyed and attic block, built of granite rubble, is the main mill, and the lower buildings to the left are part of the complex. The water in the lade from the Don to the Inverurie Paper Mills. The Aberdeenshire Canal was constructed to open up the trade of the Don valley as far as Inverurie. Its northern terminus, on the southern outskirts of Inverurie, was named Port Elphinstone, and the name stuck, even after the conversion of the canal into a railway in the early 1850s. These mills were probably built in the early 19th century, after the opening of the Aberdeenshire Canal in 1805, which ran to Aberdeen. It was originally water-powered, from the River Don, and was probably built as a flour mill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/18/17
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