By Bernie Bell.

We were talking with a neighbour who told us a bit of local history we’d never known before.

There’s a place along the road from where we live, called Breck Farm which has a fine set of old farm buildings – in fact, it’s presently for sale.

These buildings used to include an historic 19th-century threshing mill, often cited as one of the oldest surviving examples of its kind in the world, which was dismantled and transferred to the National Museum of Rural Life in  East Kilbride.

If you click on ‘Tools Gallery’ – there’s a picture of the mechanism : National Museum of Rural Life.

There are more images on the ‘Trove Scotland’ site, Breck Of Rendall, Threshing Mill

I’ve previously written about the old mills of Orkney

Orkney Mills

and now I can add this one – kind-of in absentia.

It also adds to the history of this little corner of Rendall

Walking Out From The House – Again……..