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The mill originally produced high quality writing paper and paper for artists (including Turner<ref>[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-grenoble-bridge-r1146533] Tate website: J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours</ref> and Constable), as well as for bank-notes issued by provincial banks. By 1834 it was producing gutta percha. Paper-making was subsequently removed to Wookey Hole. The overshot 56 ft waterwheel was fed from a reservoir by large pipe supported on columns, two of which remain to north of building at the east end, approx 5m high, forming piers at the entrance to adjacent cottages. The site became a furniture factory in the later 19th, operated by John Whitaker. The surviving structures are Grade II listed. <ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1395200?section=official-list-entry] Historic England: DE MONTALT WORKS (SOUTH RANGE), SUMMER LANE </ref> | The mill originally produced high quality writing paper and paper for artists (including Turner<ref>[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-grenoble-bridge-r1146533] Tate website: J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours</ref> and Constable), as well as for bank-notes issued by provincial banks. By 1834 it was producing gutta percha. Paper-making was subsequently removed to Wookey Hole. The overshot 56 ft waterwheel was fed from a reservoir by large pipe supported on columns, two of which remain to north of building at the east end, approx 5m high, forming piers at the entrance to adjacent cottages. The site became a furniture factory in the later 19th, operated by John Whitaker. The surviving structures are Grade II listed. <ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1395200?section=official-list-entry] Historic England: DE MONTALT WORKS (SOUTH RANGE), SUMMER LANE </ref> | ||
1860 Advert: 'BATH WASHING COMPANY, DE MONTALT MILL, COMBE DOWN, Bath. <br>PURE WASHING — NO CHEMICALS - NO WRINGING — NO SCRUBBING. <br>THE MANAGING COMMITTEE beg to announce that the premises formerly used as a Paper Mill, COMBE DOWN, have been recently fitted up for the purpose of WASHING And FINISHING, on the most approved principle, articles of every description, for personal or domestic use. The arrangements are the most perfect that scientific skill, guided by practical experience, can produce. The Managers are persons practically acquainted with their duties, and the business will be conducted with punctuality and attention. There is an abundant supply of those indispensable requisites for restoring the health-promoting quality of Linen — <br>PURE Soft Water for Cleansing, and Pure Air for Drying. <br>The Water, which issues from springs on the Premises, has been long celebrated for its softness and purity ; it requires no chemical, and but the slightest mechanical aid to produce the most perfect cleansing without injury to the finest fabrics, thus preventing the destructive effects of caustic chemicals which greatly exceed the ordinary wear. The importance to health of having things dried in a pure and wholesome atmosphere cannot be too highly estimated : the appliances are such as enable the Managers to accomplish this at all seasons, and in every state of weather. Articles of every description, from the finest Lace or Cambric, to the largest Carpet—Blankets, Quilts, and Curtains, of every description — are washed and finished equal to new. ......'<ref>Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 23 February 1860</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 08:20, 27 May 2022
Montalt or de Montalt Paper Mill, Combe Down, near Bath, Somerset.
Prprietors: Bally, Ellen and Steart. George Steart died in 1837.
The mill, built in 1805, was originally powered by a waterwheel, said at the time to be the largest in England, being 56 ft diameter, and having a 36 ft gear wheel.[1]
1808 Boulton and Watt installed a 10 HP beam engine. 19¾" cylinder, 30" stroke, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod. The engine was of an usual arrangement referred to as "wiggle waggle". The inner end of the beam was connected directly to the piston rod, and the outer end was mounted on the engine framing. The connecting rod was connected to the beam between the beam's centre and inner end, and worked the crank shaft which was mounted in the centre of the base frame.[2]
The mill originally produced high quality writing paper and paper for artists (including Turner[3] and Constable), as well as for bank-notes issued by provincial banks. By 1834 it was producing gutta percha. Paper-making was subsequently removed to Wookey Hole. The overshot 56 ft waterwheel was fed from a reservoir by large pipe supported on columns, two of which remain to north of building at the east end, approx 5m high, forming piers at the entrance to adjacent cottages. The site became a furniture factory in the later 19th, operated by John Whitaker. The surviving structures are Grade II listed. [4]
1860 Advert: 'BATH WASHING COMPANY, DE MONTALT MILL, COMBE DOWN, Bath.
PURE WASHING — NO CHEMICALS - NO WRINGING — NO SCRUBBING.
THE MANAGING COMMITTEE beg to announce that the premises formerly used as a Paper Mill, COMBE DOWN, have been recently fitted up for the purpose of WASHING And FINISHING, on the most approved principle, articles of every description, for personal or domestic use. The arrangements are the most perfect that scientific skill, guided by practical experience, can produce. The Managers are persons practically acquainted with their duties, and the business will be conducted with punctuality and attention. There is an abundant supply of those indispensable requisites for restoring the health-promoting quality of Linen —
PURE Soft Water for Cleansing, and Pure Air for Drying.
The Water, which issues from springs on the Premises, has been long celebrated for its softness and purity ; it requires no chemical, and but the slightest mechanical aid to produce the most perfect cleansing without injury to the finest fabrics, thus preventing the destructive effects of caustic chemicals which greatly exceed the ordinary wear. The importance to health of having things dried in a pure and wholesome atmosphere cannot be too highly estimated : the appliances are such as enable the Managers to accomplish this at all seasons, and in every state of weather. Articles of every description, from the finest Lace or Cambric, to the largest Carpet—Blankets, Quilts, and Curtains, of every description — are washed and finished equal to new. ......'[5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Boulton & Watt Steam Engines in Bristol and Bath, by Mike Bone. BIAS JOURNAL No 28 1995
- ↑ [2] University of Birmingham: MS 3147 - Boulton and Watt Collection: Bally Ellen & Steart, near Bath, 1808
- ↑ [3] Tate website: J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours
- ↑ [4] Historic England: DE MONTALT WORKS (SOUTH RANGE), SUMMER LANE
- ↑ Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 23 February 1860