Thats what I enjoy about old mills, this mill was a case in point and the whole building resonated to the clatter of gears and the whir of belts.... put yer cup of tea on the window sill and it would soon walk off! Yeah our holidays usually turn into a tour of industrial heritage....
It's pretty amazing that flour milling really hasn't changed much since. The equipment is just bigger, made of metal, and powered electrically now, and pneumatics are used between rolls and the sifters instead of bucket conveyors. Things are also organized a bit better, although you will end up with a forest of spouting no matter what you do.
Thats what I enjoy about old mills, this mill was a case in point and the whole building resonated to the clatter of gears and the whir of belts.... put yer cup of tea on the window sill and it would soon walk off!
Yeah our holidays usually turn into a tour of industrial heritage....
It's pretty amazing that flour milling really hasn't changed much since. The equipment is just bigger, made of metal, and powered electrically now, and pneumatics are used between rolls and the sifters instead of bucket conveyors. Things are also organized a bit better, although you will end up with a forest of spouting no matter what you do.
Good to see industrial heritage being preserved, much has been lost though.
Thanks for sharing this great video. I would love to go to a mill like that. Very cool.
If your ever up this way, melin llynon is a good place to visit. One of the last working windmills,
Wonderful place,it sounds so alive! Ye must be on a tour of "working" England...
I'll bear that in mind, thanks.
It is indeed, by visiting these places you of course help to preserve them a little longer, there is very little funding available to these places.
very nice shoots are you on a holliday trip?