One from a backlog of little water-powered corn mills.
This example was still in use in 1940 for grinding animal food, which is how most of these local mills ended their days.
It’s quite complete, although there’s no flour purifying machinery left.
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Approaching past the mill pond at first I though I was too late and it had been converted into a house.
In fact one end has just been rebuilt in rendered breeze blocks - not very sympathetic perhaps but it does the job.
Overshot wheel - the water came in along a wooden channel (now gone) above on the right.
New bit.
Old bit - note the two spouts coming down from the stones above.
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A standard but compact and mostly iron mechanism with pit, wallower, great spur wheels and a takeoff.
Above are two pairs of stones - the ‘furniture’ is a bit jumbled but mostly there.
This pegboard is the mill’s ‘throttle’, for adjusting the flow of water over the wheel outside.
Looking down on the wheel, the metal scraps on the left are the remains of the sluice the pegboard was controlling.
Sack hoist mechanism up in the rafters.
Graffiti, some from the 1800s.
Final view on the way out.
This example was still in use in 1940 for grinding animal food, which is how most of these local mills ended their days.
It’s quite complete, although there’s no flour purifying machinery left.
Approaching past the mill pond at first I though I was too late and it had been converted into a house.
In fact one end has just been rebuilt in rendered breeze blocks - not very sympathetic perhaps but it does the job.
Overshot wheel - the water came in along a wooden channel (now gone) above on the right.
New bit.
Old bit - note the two spouts coming down from the stones above.
A standard but compact and mostly iron mechanism with pit, wallower, great spur wheels and a takeoff.
Above are two pairs of stones - the ‘furniture’ is a bit jumbled but mostly there.
This pegboard is the mill’s ‘throttle’, for adjusting the flow of water over the wheel outside.
Looking down on the wheel, the metal scraps on the left are the remains of the sluice the pegboard was controlling.
Sack hoist mechanism up in the rafters.
Graffiti, some from the 1800s.
Final view on the way out.
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