The Old Spinning Mill'(page 2) written by Miss Isobel Steele about Balnamore Mill, Balnamore, February 1959.

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Transcript of The Old Spinning Mill by Isabel Steele on the occasion of the mill closing, Feburary 1959 (page 2) (cont'd from previous page) Then a little boy with wooden truck Would take the yarn away To the very busy reelers Who worked hard to make things pay We still can think quite clearly Of the place where the yarn was dried Of Sam Boyd and Harry McKeever Who many a bundle tied Danny McAuley drove the mill lorry Which took the work away We can see again olf Mr Smyth As he gave us each our pay But these are memories of the past No more we hear the horn That called us to out place of work At eight o'clock each morn No more on winter evenings Are the windows filled with light Nor do we hear the turbin As it hummed throughout the night The old mill wheel is silent now Twill turn again no more What have we left? "sweet memories" Of those happy days of yore.