View from NE showing mill wheel. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
SC 867015
Description View from NE showing mill wheel. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 867015
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Waterwheel, Blair Atholl Mill, Blair Atholl, Perthshire This mill was built in c.1830-32 to serve the Atholl Estates. It was disused but intact in the early 1970s, but was converted into a working mill, arranged for visitors, in the late 1970s. The kiln was gutted, and a staircase inserted in it, to give easy access to the milling floor. This view shows the waterwheel, of shrouded-paddle mid-breast type, as reconditioned in the late 1970s. In the foreground water is being run into the waste-water channel through a trap-door in the launder while the wheel is stopped. To start the wheel the trapdoor will be shut. This was the first mill in Scotland restored as a commercial visitor attraction. It is still working in this way, and the concept has been developed elsewhere, as at Aberfeldy Mill, where stones taken out in the 1950s have been re-inserted. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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