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Title: | Digital Images Collection: Rowlestone Mill photographs |
Date: | c.2000 |
Details of the history of this mill at Rowlestone are not known. Photographs are accompanied by a brief description. A link to wider references to Rowlestone Mill in our documents database is also included here for convenience. The mill is not accessible to the public.
|  | | Rowlestone mill and overshot waterwheel | | | |  | | The waterwheel, fed by a header tank connected by pipe to the mill pool behind | |
|  | | A belt drive for auxiliary machinery, geared directly from the pit wheel | | | |  | | The sack hoist, chain and pulley on the bin floor of the mill | |
|  | | The sack hoist mechanism | | | |  | | The water header tank and inlet pipe | |
|  | | The water header tank and inlet pipe, showing the penstock valve mechanism operated from inside | | | |  | | The pit wheel and the belt drive wheels for the auxiliary machinery | |
|  | | A cider apple crusher powered by the mill | | | |  | | The metal axle, spokes and shrouds | |
|  | | The waterwheel | | | |  | | Simple screw tentering mechanism | |
|  | | A pinion connects the lay shaft directly to the pit wheel to power belt drives to the rest of the mill | | | |  | | Steep internal stairs are offset in parallel, to provide headroom while occupying the minimum floor space | |
|  | | The lever controlling the penstock, and a crude scale on the wall indicating how far the sluice is opened | | | |  | | A belt driven lay shaft on the middle floor of the mill | |
|  | | Internal stairs looking down. They were very steep to utilise space efficiently | | | |  | | The bin floor and roof structure, with the sack hoist pulley in the apex | |
|  | | Sack hoist mechanism on the bin floor | | | |
|  | | The pit wheel and hursting | | | |  | | The mill leet | |
|  | | The mill pond beside the house | | | |  | | Apple crusher for cider making. | |
|  | | Detail of the lay shaft drive mechanism, powered from the pit wheel | | | |  | | A lay shaft on the middle floor | |
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Ref: rs_dic_0006