View of waterwheel. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
SC 866055
Description View of waterwheel. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
Date c. 1997
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 866055
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Waterwheel, Knockando Woollen Mill, Knockando, Moray The Knockando Woollen Mill is the last working survivor of many small rural woollen mills which turned the wool from locally-reared sheep into tweed and knitting wool for local use. The mill was water-powered until after World War II, and is now electrically powered. A view of the iron frame work of the overshot waterwheel which drove the mill. The slots for the wooden buckets can be seen in the rim, and the water would have been taken to the top of the wheel by a wooden trough, from the left. The Knockando mill started as a carding mill, making carded wool to be spun by hand. Spinning was added later, and finally power-looms were installed. There are active proposals to restore the mill to working order. For the last thirty years or so it has been weaving high-class woollen fabrics. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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