View from SW. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Description View from SW. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Date 1997

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

Catalogue Number SC 866080

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Preston Mill, East Linton, East Lothian East Lothian, with its dry climate, is one of the best areas for growing cereals in Scotland, and seems to have had some of the earliest water-powered corn mills in the country. Preston Mill is probably on a medieval site, and some of the surviving masonry is probably of 17th century date. This image shows the mill in 1997. The circular kiln, for drying oats before grinding, is detached from the mill, which is driven by the early 20th century cast iron-framed low-breast waterwheel seen on the gable on the right. The mill is owned by the National Trust for Scotland, and was restored in the 1960s. This is a small mill of its type, and notably picturesque, which probably accounts for its survival. The nearness of Edinburgh, with its steam-powered mills, killed off most East Lothian mills in the 19th century, compounded by the introduction of roller milling in about 1880, which quickly ended stone grinding of flour. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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