It's time for another little update on whats going on down at Longfords Mill. Since the last update, the only visually major item of note is the destruction of the old red brick loom sheds located on the west side of the complex. The loom sheds were built when the machinery in the old original building was basically too heavy and caused so much vibration that it could not be used on anything other than the ground floor. There was also a certain element of fire risk with the wooden floors slowly becoming saturated with oils. As mentioned in previous atricles, the sheds were built onto a concrete platform supported on concrete piles, around 18feet long due to the soft nature of the ground. More work is also being carried out on the buildings and land opposite The Weighbridge pub. The photographs show the remains of the loom sheds, some sandbags in the stream that runs alongside the old sheds, while the last two were taken from the large earth dam that straddles the valley. Of the second two, the first shows part of the mill complex, the pipe in the bottom left is the one that feeds water to the electricity generating water turbine. All the rough ground in front of the main building was previously a concrete platform with numerous single story brick buildings, while the final photograph shows the small structure that controls the water into the turbine pipe. As it was an unusually warm and sunny day for the time of year, as the evening was drawing in a thick layer of mist was floating above the water in the lake. The photograph shows the mist spilling over the dam and flowing down the side.

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