I first spotted this a couple of years ago whilst driving along the A6, but dismissed it as it just looked like a small cottage. More recently I was walking in the area with my girlfriend and spotted it again. Only I realised it wasn't 'just a small cottage' but a water mill.
A couple of hundred yards up the path before the mill, there's a sigh pointing to "Bone Crushing Mill"
From some seraching i've done i've found reference to two uses as a Bone Crushing Mill and a Bobbin/Saw/Wood Turning Mill, both mention the Mill being worked by the Frost family. I'll post some info taken from the links I've found. I would put it in my own words, but there's not masses of info and putting it into my own words would probably just end up complicating things
The first, about it being a bone crushing mill gives a bit of a insight to "Rag and Bone Men" as I'd heard of them but never really know where the bone part came into it.
The mill itself,
Taken from here.
Onto the bobbin mill info..
Taken from here.
After looking on the Arkwright Society's website, they've got it down as a bobbin mill. That's probably down to being associated with bobbin making is a better than being associated with bone crushing. The section for the mill on their site is "coming soon", but it doesn't look like much renovation has actually been done to the water wheels them selves.
Sluice gate mechanism
Bit hard to tell which is the wheel with perforated buckets now...
There's a smaller water wheel in the remains of small brick building
Leading to it..
The building/wheel is smack bang next to the river.
Can see the river in the background of this shot..
Rest of the pics are here and here.
Off to bedski's, will have a look at he thread tomorrow when it's a more reasonable hour to see if i've made any mistakes
A couple of hundred yards up the path before the mill, there's a sigh pointing to "Bone Crushing Mill"
From some seraching i've done i've found reference to two uses as a Bone Crushing Mill and a Bobbin/Saw/Wood Turning Mill, both mention the Mill being worked by the Frost family. I'll post some info taken from the links I've found. I would put it in my own words, but there's not masses of info and putting it into my own words would probably just end up complicating things
The first, about it being a bone crushing mill gives a bit of a insight to "Rag and Bone Men" as I'd heard of them but never really know where the bone part came into it.
The mill itself,
Taken from here.
Onto the bobbin mill info..
Taken from here.
After looking on the Arkwright Society's website, they've got it down as a bobbin mill. That's probably down to being associated with bobbin making is a better than being associated with bone crushing. The section for the mill on their site is "coming soon", but it doesn't look like much renovation has actually been done to the water wheels them selves.
Sluice gate mechanism
Bit hard to tell which is the wheel with perforated buckets now...
There's a smaller water wheel in the remains of small brick building
Leading to it..
The building/wheel is smack bang next to the river.
Can see the river in the background of this shot..
Rest of the pics are here and here.
Off to bedski's, will have a look at he thread tomorrow when it's a more reasonable hour to see if i've made any mistakes
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