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The road is that from Ballacraine to Kirk Michael - the mill is a short distance north west of Laurel Bank. The river, running NW-SE bottom rh corner is the Peel river which also powers the several mills around Ballig Bridge |
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Mentioned in Mona's Herald 20th July 1870 describing a visit to Glen Helen
Another half-mile [from Ballig Bridge] brings us to the flour mill of Mr Wm. Quine, the whirring of whose busy mill wheel we have been hearing for some time. ... While we are within Mr Quine's premises we may as well inform our readers that this gentleman is one of the most sensible and enterprising men in this part of the Island. He is one of the proprietors of Glen Helen, and upon him has fallen the work of planting and laying ont the grounds ; and that he is well fitted for such a task the beautiful result which so many thousands journey a dozen miles to see every year sufficiently proves.
Wm Quine also owned Cregg Mill on the Silverburn and was shortly to sell Glen Helen pleasure grounds.
David Jones, in his 1964 report on possible preservation of mills remarked about this mill that it may be rejected for preservation, "because although much of the old plant is intact and in use, so much modern plant has been added that it could not possibly be presented to visitors as an example of an old mill unless these modern additions were removed. This could hardly be done without losing the goodwill of the present miller, whose work they are, Since Glen Helen Mill is otherwise unremarkable this means that its one special advantage, that of being the last watermill on the Island to be still using its waterwheel for regular commercial work, cannot be utilised".
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Any comments, errors or omissions gratefully received The
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