Today Rowena and I explored 4 mill sites.
Two are now houses, one is a garage where I take my car for its MOT, the lift being positioned right where the mill wheel would have been -a brick shadow high up on the wall blocks where the head race once tumbled through the wall onto the wheel. The fourth site took us back to the past, a silent and still wheel with wooden buckets like sieves surrounded by the equipment associated with milling and on upper floors rusting bicycles and children's ride in toy cars from the 50's onwards. Nearby glass milk bottles in their metal carrying basket, butter churns, dishes for preserving eggs in Isinglass, milk kits and milking equipment all wait on the floor, put on oneside as they were no longer needed in and around the 3 floors of well worn and oiled quiet cogs.
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