Old Photograph Mains Fall Mill Eaglesham Scotland

Old photograph of Mains Fall Mill by Eaglesham near Glasgow, Scotland. The original Mill dates to before 1574. In 1782, the Mill building was two storeys high and contained an engine for drying pease. Water was originally supplied from a dam which was situated at the confluence of the Ardoch and Enoch Burns. In 1820, Dunwan Dam was constructed to supply Eaglesham cotton mills. Water was diverted from its normal course however effectively controlled the flow of water down the Polnoon Burn to Millhall. Shortly afterwards a new corn mill was contructed at the Orry in Eaglesham replacing Millhall Mill as the Parish corn mill. Millhall Mill was used as a cotton mill, ropeworks and flock mill until the closure of the wool flock business sometime between 1901 and 1914. A grain mill was re-established between 1922 and 1930 by grain merchant, James B. Hyslop. Brown & Hislop, millers and grain merchants, purchased the mill, land and The Mill House in 1935. Later Bowie and Aram Limited purchased the mill, land and The Mill House continuing the milling and grain operations.



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