North Woodside Flint Mill

Beautifully composed b/w image.
Thank you for thje info and link.

I appreciate your kind comment, Jaap. Thank you, Joe

It seems quite sad to see these parts of the mill that once worked so hard, discarded. Your b&w treatment seems very apt giving a sombre mood to this fine shot. Cheers, Rosa.

Thanks, Rosa. I have seen archaelogists doing digs at the mill. Cheers, Joe

A fave song of mine too, Joe.
Please excuse my total ignonance but what is a flint mill?

It's a mill used to grind flint, Andy.

A good explanation is available here.

Cheers,

Joe

Thank you, Joe and I could have kicked myself because I knew perfectly well, just forgot.

I also know that the expression 'bone-grinding', as in 'a bone-grindingly dull day' for instance, derives from the excrutiating noise made when bone (and I presume flint and/or a mixture of the two) is ground in a mill! I also understood that bone was often ground to produce fertiliser.
Or is it 'milled in a mill'?
No (thinking as I go here), you mill soft-ish stuff such as grain and cotton but you grind harder stuff like coffee beans and, of course(!) flint!
Someone will correct me if I've got it wrong, I hope! :o)

It was a grain mill in 1765, Andy, and was also used to grind gunpowder during the Napoleonic Wars. The mill was converted, to grind flints by the owner of a Glasgow pottery.

Splendid edition in b/w !
Cheers
Fabio