Mill Green Water Mill

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A visit made on 1st August 2025 after a U3A Trip to the Horniman was cancelled as the leader had Covid. The various posters enlarge

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Area map

The Mill

Mill Leat flows on

Mill Stones

Horizontal to vertical motion

Grain Transfer pipe

Undershot Mill Water Wheel

Mill Leat

Note Wheelwrights iron work

Filling a sack with flour "Dove Farm"

Model of the Mill

How it works

Explaining the "Empty" alarm

"Sticks and String". The stick acts as a spring to the "Empty" alarm bell which rings when the buried belt is freed by the grain having been used up

Connection to the buried belt

Drive belt that activates the sack lift pulley

The belt loose and not working

Explaining how the mill stone acts as a centrifuge

Floor Window to steel cogs plus spider webs

Spare Mill Stone

Worn steps

Stopped Clock

 Turned legs

Spiders Web

Types of Grain

Hatch from top floor

On the outside door

Farm Machinery dotted around

Mangle?

Millers House

Owl

Coffee under a grape covered Gazebo

 

The River Lee running parallel

Cones

Root washer and shredder

Grinding Mill

Gravel spreader

Bug Hotel

Hedgehog House

Museum Shop selling Flour etc

Door to the Cafe where coffee comes in a Cafetiere

Rear view of the Cafe

Sewage Farm Plough

The Barn now a Community Centre

Mill Green Lodge

The phonebox is still working but not maintained!

Mill Visitor/Resident?

Waterside Cottages