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Dist:0.2km<br/>The remains of the old North Woodside Flint Mill, Garriochmill Road, on the banks of the River Kelvin. It is one of Glasgow's Scheduled Ancient Monuments, the first reference to it being on a map in 1650 when it was shown as a barley mill. At the time of the Napoleonic Wars, at the start of the 19th century, it was used to grind gunpowder. In 1846 it was bought by Robert Cochran, of Verreville Flint Crystal Glass and Pottery Works in Finnieston, who demolished the old barley mill and built the North Woodside Flint Mill, which processed flint and Cornish stone used by Verreville. The mill closed about 1955 and much of it was demolished around 1964. The large square-shaped feature on the left of the site is the remains of the old kiln, close by to the right of which are several large round stones - old grinding stones made from Ballachulish stone.
©Richard Keltie
Dist:0.2km<br/>With Kelvin Stevenson Memorial Church in the background.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Path beside the river near the Belmont Bridge.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>The ruins of North Woodside flint millcan be seen across the river. The footbridge is part of the Kelvin Walkway.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.2km<br/>On Belmont Street in the west end of Glasgow.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Crosses the River Kelvin in the west end of Glasgow.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The remains of the mill by the River Kelvin in the west end of Glasgow. Kelvin Stevenson Memorial Church is visible in the background.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.2km<br/>Flint was roasted and pulverised here to provide a powder that was used to strengthen ceramics and also to provide a lighter colour. Flints are usually associated with the Cretaceous chalks of England and would have been imported from the south - they are very rare in Scotland. The mill closed in 1959.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>The remains of the mill by the River Kelvin in the west end of Glasgow.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>What appears to be the remains of an old road bridge, just east of the bridge at Queen Margaret Drive [[[888074]]].
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>By the River Kelvin in the west end of Glasgow.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>By the River Kelvin. The Kelvin Walkway is to the right. The lade provided water to the ruined North Woodside flint mill.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>With the old North Woodside flint mill lade in the foreground.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.3km<br/>By the River Kelvin in the west end of Glasgow.
©Thomas Nugent

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