Casgliadau Arlein

Travelling cider scratter and press last used in the 1950's at Lodge farm now a golf club. Donated in memory of Mr William Naber Crump.

Combined scratter mill and press consisting of an upright cider mill and a two screw press - mounted on a low, four wheeled trolley; mill consists of a wooden frame with a pair of cast-iron ridged and toothed rollers to cut up the apples and beneath is a pair of stone rollers to crush them; wooden trough collected crushed apples before being transferred to the press at the rear of the trolley; press comprises two cast-iron, threaded pillows with a cross wooden beam, screwed down by means of two metal collars; groove in base of press to collect juice, then drained via wooden spout into collecting tins; mill powered in the 1950's by small two and a half horse power engine; four ornate cast-iron wheels on trolley.