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Harris, Geocrab Mill
Carding Mill (20th Century), Pier (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Harris, Geocrab Mill
Classification Carding Mill (20th Century), Pier (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Geocrab, Weaving Mill
Canmore ID 10693
Site Number NG19SW 1.02
NGR NG 1120 9055
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10693
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Harris
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Geocrab Carding and Spinning Mill, 1922 Waterpowered mill established by Leverhulme to provide yarn for tweed-making crofters, now a hatchery seafarm. It echoes, in larger scale, some of the housing of the period, with corrugated iron walls and roof (now renewed) sandwiched between masonry gables. Above marches the cast-iron aqueduct on tall stone piers which piped water from the nearby dam. The mill did not stay in operation long, as people refused to give up hand-spinning.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG19SW 1.02 1120 9055
(Location cited as NG 112 905). Weaving mill, Geocrab, 1923. A one-storey and attic, five-bay building of corrugated iron with rubble gables; on the N is a one-storey lean-to. Powered by a water turbine supplied through a cast-iron pipe aqueduct [NG19SW 1.03] from a loch on the hillside above. At one point the pipe run crosses a stream on five rubble piers. Nearby is a small rubble quay.
J R Hume 1977.
