by
Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK
My attention was attracted recently to a well-illustrated article on the Don Mills of Mexborough, a town near Doncaster in Yorkshire. The item from The Miller (December 2nd, 1912) relates to the time when the mills were owned and worked by Frederick White. They were conveniently situated on the bank of Sheffield and South Yorkshire Canal, allowing the easy import of foreign grain from the port at Hull and fuel direct from the Yorkshire coal pits.
The late James White, father of the owner, had worked the mills for many years and when the roller system superseded stones in the early 1880s he erected an entirely new building to install the new process. This was completed in 1884 and he retired some years later, handing over the business to his son.
Frederick built a new screen room around 1904 as well as a warehouse adjoining
the old stone mill. He then replaced the old roller plant with an entirely new
plansifter mill on the Ageka system. Finding this satisfactory he turned his
attention to the wheat cleaning and conditioning plant, and around 1911 gave
the order for a complete new outfit to German contractors AGK, Amme, Giesecke
and Konegen, (AGK) of 59 Mark Lane, London and Braunschweig, also known as
Brunswick. The firm described themselves
as the biggest milling construction engineers on the Continent with their works
occupying 96,000 square metres (more than one million square feet).
The hoppered bottoms of the dirty wheat bins were on the ground floor of the silo house. Each bin had four outlets, enabling the wheat to be drawn evenly from all parts of the bin and each spout converged to a wheat mixer. These mixers allowed any percentage of wheat, from 5-100 percent to be drawn through each mixer by simply adjusting a series of slides marked with the percentage of wheat which it controlled.
Read more HERE.
My attention was attracted recently to a well-illustrated article on the Don Mills of Mexborough, a town near Doncaster in Yorkshire. The item from The Miller (December 2nd, 1912) relates to the time when the mills were owned and worked by Frederick White. They were conveniently situated on the bank of Sheffield and South Yorkshire Canal, allowing the easy import of foreign grain from the port at Hull and fuel direct from the Yorkshire coal pits.
The late James White, father of the owner, had worked the mills for many years and when the roller system superseded stones in the early 1880s he erected an entirely new building to install the new process. This was completed in 1884 and he retired some years later, handing over the business to his son.
The hoppered bottoms of the dirty wheat bins were on the ground floor of the silo house. Each bin had four outlets, enabling the wheat to be drawn evenly from all parts of the bin and each spout converged to a wheat mixer. These mixers allowed any percentage of wheat, from 5-100 percent to be drawn through each mixer by simply adjusting a series of slides marked with the percentage of wheat which it controlled.
Read more HERE.
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