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Steam mill
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Address :- Millers Yard, Mill Road, Barningham, Suffolk
Grid Ref :- TL 96979 76898
Co-ordinates :- Lat 52.354742 , Long 0.891019
Local Authority :- West Suffolk Council
Pre 1974 County :- Suffolk
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No - 1031173,
Description and History of Site:-
Aldred's.
Former steam mill converted to electrical operation.
Claude Aldridge, Suffolk Mills Group Newsletter 34, November 1985: 1-4:
'The 'new mill' at Barningham was built in 1826 at what had been a malting. Until that time the milling had been done on two old windmills which stood on the opposite side of the road. The new mill had a condensing factory beam engine driving five pairs of stones, four for making flour and one pair of grist stones. Fisons had it until 1868 when they sold out to Walter Lingwood, who moved from Bardwell watermill. In 1895 he put in a Robinson 2½ sack roller plant and packed up stone milling. The beam engine drove this roller plant until 1931 when it was taken out and crated up by a millwright from Garboldisham - Stanley Nunn I think his name was - and sent to a museum in America.
'In 1894 the 'Miller’s Gazette and Corn Trades Journal' described Barningham Roller Flour Mills as having '... 2 break rolls and 3 smooth rolls … the rolls being placed on a slightly raised platform on the ground floor and the purifying and dressing machinery ... on the floor above. The system is one of 4 breaks and 6 reductions, two 7"x 18" double roller mills performing the breaks and 3 6”x 18” mills the reductions. The five pairs of stones existing in the mill are left untouched...’
'When I went there in 1948 they'd been walking round these five pairs of stones for over 50 years and I hauled the lot out. She had a big spurwheel and she drove equal gears onto a shaft which went underneath these five pairs of stones; the spur gear was about 30" diameter and about 6" wide and the shaft was 5” diameter. I had it cut out with acetylene cutters. It had big - I suppose about 5f t. - bevels which drove the stones. When they put the roller plant in they raised the bottom floor and made what they called a hurst floor - like they used to in a lot of roller mills - and excavated down about a yard further so they got about five or six feet between the actual floor and the bottom to put the elevator pits in to take the spouts down. They put a lineshaft in there and drove it off a 7ft. diameter pulley on this old steam shaft, driving onto an 18" or 2ft. split pulley with a 7" belt. I dismantled all this when I went there and sold 7 tons of scrap iron from it. Some of the millstones went away to a firm in London to break up and make into emery grit for emery composition stones.'
Further Reading and References:-
Falconer, Keith. 'Guide to England's Industrial Heritage'. Batsford, 1980
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/mediaImages/millsarchive_3132/906/906228.pdf
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Grid Ref :- TL 96979 76898
Co-ordinates :- Lat 52.354742 , Long 0.891019
Local Authority :- West Suffolk Council
Pre 1974 County :- Suffolk
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No - 1031173,
Aldred's.
Former steam mill converted to electrical operation.
Claude Aldridge, Suffolk Mills Group Newsletter 34, November 1985: 1-4:
'The 'new mill' at Barningham was built in 1826 at what had been a malting. Until that time the milling had been done on two old windmills which stood on the opposite side of the road. The new mill had a condensing factory beam engine driving five pairs of stones, four for making flour and one pair of grist stones. Fisons had it until 1868 when they sold out to Walter Lingwood, who moved from Bardwell watermill. In 1895 he put in a Robinson 2½ sack roller plant and packed up stone milling. The beam engine drove this roller plant until 1931 when it was taken out and crated up by a millwright from Garboldisham - Stanley Nunn I think his name was - and sent to a museum in America.
'In 1894 the 'Miller’s Gazette and Corn Trades Journal' described Barningham Roller Flour Mills as having '... 2 break rolls and 3 smooth rolls … the rolls being placed on a slightly raised platform on the ground floor and the purifying and dressing machinery ... on the floor above. The system is one of 4 breaks and 6 reductions, two 7"x 18" double roller mills performing the breaks and 3 6”x 18” mills the reductions. The five pairs of stones existing in the mill are left untouched...’
'When I went there in 1948 they'd been walking round these five pairs of stones for over 50 years and I hauled the lot out. She had a big spurwheel and she drove equal gears onto a shaft which went underneath these five pairs of stones; the spur gear was about 30" diameter and about 6" wide and the shaft was 5” diameter. I had it cut out with acetylene cutters. It had big - I suppose about 5f t. - bevels which drove the stones. When they put the roller plant in they raised the bottom floor and made what they called a hurst floor - like they used to in a lot of roller mills - and excavated down about a yard further so they got about five or six feet between the actual floor and the bottom to put the elevator pits in to take the spouts down. They put a lineshaft in there and drove it off a 7ft. diameter pulley on this old steam shaft, driving onto an 18" or 2ft. split pulley with a 7" belt. I dismantled all this when I went there and sold 7 tons of scrap iron from it. Some of the millstones went away to a firm in London to break up and make into emery grit for emery composition stones.'
Falconer, Keith. 'Guide to England's Industrial Heritage'. Batsford, 1980
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/mediaImages/millsarchive_3132/906/906228.pdf
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