Gauze Farm, Bo'ness

Maker
Unknown
Production date
Circa 1910
 Description
View looking west down a country road to the farm buildings. One building has a ventilator on the roof, one is whitewashed and a third is round with a conical flat-sided roof.
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Maker
Production date
Circa 1910
Subject place
Gauze Farm/Gauze Rd/Bo'ness town centre/Bo'ness area
Subject notes
The whitewashed building may have been a dairy. The round building is a threshing mill. Called a horse-gang, the horses walked round turning a shaft to which they were yoked. The shaft turned overhead gearing which transferred the motion into a horizontal shaft leading to the barn. The shaft turned machinery which threshed the corn, separating the grain from the straw. In larger farms, steam-power with its attendant boiler house and chimney replaced horses. From the 1930s onwards, the combine harvester did the threshing.
Accession number
P13268

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