Please be advised: this website contains the names, images and voices of people who are now deceased.

Collections WA has a responsibility to preserve and make accessible the history and culture of Western Australia in all its various forms. The intention of Collections WA is to support research, and to reveal actions of the past that have impacted upon communities, families, and individuals.

In doing so, Collections WA acknowledges the need to respond sensitively and appropriately in cases when accessing this material may be confronting to Aboriginal visitors and clients.

Please also note: Some historical materials within this portal may include language or opinions that today are considered inappropriate or even offensive. Collections WA does not endorse this language and apologises for any distress caused.

Continue

Continue showing cultural advice

Stop showing cultural advice

Collections WA brings together collections from libraries, galleries, museums, archives, historical societies, cultural organisations, community groups and other collecting organisations across Western Australia.

Shire of Toodyay > Records

INSTALLING MILLING MACHINERY IN CONNOR'S MILL 1994; BRAN SIEVE

« Prev Item Next Item »

1994

Subcollections

Buildings / Structures

Overview

Milling machinery; bran sieve used for filtering the bran from the grain being hoisted up on chain into Connor's Mill.
Photograph taken from first floor looking down to ground floor as sieve is hoisted through the doors and up to first floor.
Head shot of Peter Chiffings in the background.

Historical information

A late Victorian-era working flour mill display opened in Connor’s Mill with milling equipment donated by Weston Milling after their Northam mill had been modernised
The machines were moved, restored and installed by volunteer labour.
A pulley system connected to an electric motor on the ground floor and the historic milling machinery on the first floor allowed them to be displayed while operating.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2016.7

Item type

Material

Width

15 cm

Height or length

10 cm

Themes

Inscriptions and markings

yellow sticker on back states date: 1994 & Peter Chiffings.

Year

1994

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Geotag

-31.550330894935, 116.46531711172

Open in Google Maps

Nearest geotagged records:

View all geotagged records...

Shire of Toodyay

Shire of Toodyay

Organisation Details
View Collection
Item Feedback

Other items from Shire of Toodyay

Installing milling machinery 1994

Media Reuse | View Full Size | Item Feedback

Scan this QR code to open this page on your phone ->

Full size unavailable (you're already seeing this image in its highest resolution available on Collections WA)

Loading...