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Edinburgh at Work Chancelot Mill Flour Mill at Western Harbour, Leith 1993 |
(See Recollections 1 below)
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken December 8, 1993
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Chancelot Mill |
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History Chancelot Mill was once a prominent landmark at Bonnington with a tower and large clock faces. Around 1970, the mill moved to Western Harbour, Leith, now part of the Edinburgh Waterfront development area. |
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1993 On my visit to the mill, in 1993, I walked through several floors of the mill without seeing any workers. I believe that the whole operation was controlled by computer - and on some occasions it was controlled remotely by computer from the workers' homes! On this floor, flour, at various stages of being sifted, was passing up the white pipes and down the yellow pipes. There were small inspection hatches in the pipes to allow samples to be taken without interrupting the process. |
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Recollections 1. Daren Race |
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I originally captioned this photo "Ovens at the Mill". However, I must thank Daren Race for correcting me. Daren wrote: |
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Around 1990 "I worked at Chancelot Mill in the late 1980s and up until 1991. Those are not ovens, they are grinders. They grind the wheat into various qualities of flour. The rollers are steel and inside are big magnets to remove any particulates from the flour. More Photos? Did you take any more photos? The sifters were particularly interesting but not sure you’d have been let in there because it’s quite dangerous." Daren Race, 22 Oct 2019 |
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More Photos? Reply Unfortunately, I only managed to visit Chancelot Mills once in the 1990s, and I never got to see or photograph the sifters. Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: 1 November 2019 |