History and Technology of Watermills - Jesmond Dene Old Mill
History and Technology of Watermills. ... Rural water mills began to close down to be replaced by the large, industrial, port-based steam-powered mill and by the end of the 19th Century almost all rural watermills had ceased commercial production. ... The Galloway Hydro Electric scheme, commissioned in the mid 1930s, was the first large-scale ...