A Victorian building (1867 date stone) on the site of an earlier one which was still producing flour into the 1990s.
I’d looked at this a couple times over the last few years without success - now the locals appear to have got in judging by the empty drink bottles.
Pictures are a mixture of phone and camera.
Water was diverted from the River Monnow by a weir, which collapsed in 2001, down a leat with an overflow just before the wheel.
Remains of the iron-framed wooden paddle wheel - the wooden pole with the chain round it was for controlling the sluice from within the mill.
The wheel drove a standard set of gears powering two pairs of stones on the floor above.
The gears are behind the wooden partition at the back of this room.
Everything on the ground floor is covered in mud, common in mills built directly on banks of rivers - Skenfrith is particularly prone to flooding.
This thing is an oil-cake breaker for animal feed.
One half of the first floor has the older water-powered grinding stones, with the runner stones removed and a takeoff for machinery upstairs.
The ubiquitous Bamford grinder.
The other half of this floor contains the more recent electrically-driven setup.
A grain cleaning machine by Lainchbury and Sons - the old photo comes from a website about the history of this company.
What I assume is a more recent horizontal stone grinder, no label that I noticed.
On the floor nearby is what looks like a spindle drive and another Barron-type composite stone propped up against the wall.
Some product.
Moving up the building there isn’t much more to see apart from the sack hoist, and plenty of bats, in the attic.
I’d looked at this a couple times over the last few years without success - now the locals appear to have got in judging by the empty drink bottles.
Pictures are a mixture of phone and camera.
Water was diverted from the River Monnow by a weir, which collapsed in 2001, down a leat with an overflow just before the wheel.
Remains of the iron-framed wooden paddle wheel - the wooden pole with the chain round it was for controlling the sluice from within the mill.
The wheel drove a standard set of gears powering two pairs of stones on the floor above.
The gears are behind the wooden partition at the back of this room.
Everything on the ground floor is covered in mud, common in mills built directly on banks of rivers - Skenfrith is particularly prone to flooding.
This thing is an oil-cake breaker for animal feed.
One half of the first floor has the older water-powered grinding stones, with the runner stones removed and a takeoff for machinery upstairs.
The ubiquitous Bamford grinder.
The other half of this floor contains the more recent electrically-driven setup.
A grain cleaning machine by Lainchbury and Sons - the old photo comes from a website about the history of this company.
What I assume is a more recent horizontal stone grinder, no label that I noticed.
On the floor nearby is what looks like a spindle drive and another Barron-type composite stone propped up against the wall.
Some product.
Moving up the building there isn’t much more to see apart from the sack hoist, and plenty of bats, in the attic.
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