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"Brilliant book. Very informative"
"Provides a good
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Traditional Corn
Milling Watermills
by Nigel S. Harris
with drawings by John Brandrick*
This booklet is the introduction every watermill novice needs. It
aims to explain how watermills used for stoneground flour milling
worked. Using numerous drawings and photographs, it guides the
reader through the various elements that go to make up a working
watermill, including a brief discussion on the layout of a typical
mill building. Having explained how the machinery in the mill
operated it then describes how wheat is ground into meal and how
that meal is processed further to make white
flour.
This 40 page A5 booklet consists of extracts from the more comprehensive and detailed 211 page A4 hardcover book by the same author entitled: "Watermills and Stoneground Flour Milling" ISBN 9780955150128
Link to: The authors Amazon web page
Link to: The authors Bibliography of Work
The authors other
websites:
Watermills and Stoneground Flour Milling
Gomshall Mill the Harris Millers
& their Shere
Connection
CONTENT: What is corn? Horizontal waterwheel driven mills. Vertical waterwheel driven mills. Post-mediaeval developments. The line shaft. The use of iron. Spur gear drive (two-step).
16 High Quality Line Drawings
CONTENT continued: Mill buildings. Underdrift and overdrift drive. Vertical waterwheel types. Water turbine drive. The millstones. The milling action. Inside a typical mill.
CONTENT continued: Sack hoist. The milling process. The stone furniture and tentering. Flour dressing. Death of the rural mill. Figure acknowledgements. Further reading.
Below are some example pages from the booklet
