Mills Collection (#13)

Waltham Gunpowder Mills
Her Majestys (Queen Victoria s) Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey. Date: 1854

Watermill in 18th C
The interior of a water mill in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Boring mill as adapted for a corner of a shop, plan, side elevation and detail Date: 1848

Gravenhage, The Netherlands - The Royal Palace. A lovely card, bordered with a selction of photographs of local windmills!

Opening of the Thames Embankment, London, 1868
Engraving showing the opening of the Thames North Embankment, London, at Temple Pier to foot passengers in 1868. On the left of the image, several ferries are embarking passengers for Abbey Mills

Lion jumping through a tube at the Bertram Mills Circus, 195
Photograph showing a lion jumping through a tube during a performance of the Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia in December 1951. That year was the Silver Jubilee of the Mills Circus at Olympia

Gold Shovelled like Coal. A Curiosity of a Siberian Mine. Spa
Illustration from sketches by Special Artist Julius Price in Siberia showing Russian women working on the Siberian gold mines, shovelling ore like coal. Women are paid badly, worse than men

The Mills of Gwynfynydd Mine, Wales, 1911
Photograph showing the mills of Gwynfynydd gold mine, near Carnarvon, 1911. These buildings were where quartz was crushed and washed to produce gold

Gold in the Land of the Nile. Ancient Gold Crushing Mills
Gold mining was established in Ancient Egypt and there exist many ancient gold mine workings and these mills for crushing the ore

The Gateway of Bejar, Spain, 1908
Photograph showing the gateway of the Spanish town of Bejar, whose 9, 000 inhabitants decided to emigrate South America in 1908

Play / Mills / Rainbow Ends
WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS Will o the Wisp tunes his pipe to the wind song while sitting on a mushroom

Brassworks, Wales
Brass Mills near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales

Watermill in Turkey
Huge water wheel near Antakya (Antioch)

Miller & Water Mill C19
An elderly miller carries his corn to the mill on his back

The Old and the New Rubbing Wheels : Coaching Days and Moto
A street scene from 1927 showing a the Old Berkeley, a stage coach operated by Messrs. Claud F. Goddard and Bertram Mills from London to Box Hill through the summer

Wareham Granary
The Old Granary at Wareham, Dorset, converted into a Tea House, with St. Marys Church behind and the River Frome in front

Langstone Mill
Langstone windmill and tide mill, Havant, Hampshire. The tower mill was used for milling cereals, the tide mill is in the foreground. Both date from the 18th century

Olney Watermill
The fine old watermill at Olney, on the River Ouse, Buckinghamshire. It has associations with the poet William Cowper (1731 - 1800), who loved to stroll nearby

Circus Act / Equestrian
An equestrian act at Bertram Mills circus. Dressed as cowboys, the riders performs various dressage steps and acrobatic feats

Olive Mill, Dolcedo
An olive mill at Dolcedo, Italy

Water Mill at Elmley
The watermill wheel at Elmley Castle, Worcestershire

Windmill in Landscape
A windmill in a picturesque but rather desolate landscape

Niagara Burning Spring
The burning springs at McGill Mills, Bridgewater, above the Niagara Falls, are a popular tourist attraction : they are due to natural gas and can be ignited with a candle

Women Testing Yarn
Women testing yarn at J & P Coats, Paisley

Broads - Drainage Mills
Drainage mills on the Ant : they were formerly employed to drain the marshlands, but have been replaced by more advanced though less picturesque technology

Rotary Quern Milling
Chinese worker grinds corn using a hand-powered rotary quern, a form of industrial machinery in use since late prehistoric times

SALFORD
A picturesque view of the factory district, Salford, with a vista of tree-girt mills to delight the gaze of the boating party

Fishing by the Mill
The Middle Mill, formerly called The Kings Mill, on the River Colne, Colchester, Essex, England, now sadly demolished forever

Shiplake Paper Mills, part of the Drayton Paper Works, Fulham, London

Saw Mill, Fort Anne
The saw-mill at Fort Ann Creek, New York state, was destroyed by general Burgoynes forces after they had defeated the rebels and taken the fort

Albion Mills Fire
The fire at Albion Mills, on the Surrey bank of the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge. Several fire brigades have come to the scene but too late to save the flour and grain

Windmill, Ellington
Peg Mill, at Ellington in Huntingdonshire, England

Waterfall at Kringlendal, Norway
A waterfall at Kringlendal, Norway, showing a bridge made of pine logs, and an aqueduct carrying power to nearby sawmills

Manchester / Cotton Mills
Manchester: cotton mills, Miles Platting

Manchester Mill Girls
Dinner Time. Mill-girls at a Manchester cotton factory

Bertram Mills Clowns
A bunch of clowns from the Bertram Mills Circus apply their make-up in their dressing-room

Ewell Millstone
Chipping out the cutting edges (dressing) a millstone at the old flour mill at Ewell, Surrey

Dressing a Millstone
Dressing a millstone at an old water mill at Ewell, Surrey

Windmill, Schermenpolder
Group of windmills at Schermenpolder, Netherlands

Winchelsea Mill, Sussex
Winchelsea mill, Sussex

Various Sorts of Mill
Various sorts of mill including a water mill over a river and two windmills

Women Reeling Thread
Women reeling thread into skeins at J & P Coats, Paisley

Women Winding Yarn 1920
Women winding yarn at J & P Coats, Paisley

Women Twisting Yarn 1920
Women twisting yarn into thread at J & P Coats, Paisley

Portrait of a Clown
A portrait of a laughing clown, in his full costume, at Bertram Mills Circus

Homestead Steel Strike
HOMESTEAD STEEL STRIKE Workers at the Carnegie Steel Company mills at Homestead, Pennsylvania, in armed battle against the Pinkerton men hired to protect the plant

Water Mill, Holstein
An old water mill in Holstein, Northern Germany

Surrey Water Mill
Two girls beside a water mill in Surrey, England

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