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This was an article in the January 16th 2026 Newsletter DRESSING THE STONES. One of the reasons we need to lift and separate the stones is to allow the grinding faces to be dressed. This means putting the grooves into the face of the stone, because as the stones rotate against themselves a very small […]

This article appeared in the Newsletter 8th January 2026 LIFTING THE STONES. There are times when we need to lift the runner stone off the bed stone. This can be to check for wear on the stones and their grinding faces, (known as the dressing), and also in some cases to look at the hole […]

This article appeared in the Newsletter 1st January 2026. CLEANING THE STONES. With the mill not operating over Christmas we take the opportunity to strip the mill stone apparatus down and give it all a good clean and check them over for any problems that may affect milling in the future. To get to the […]

Taken from the 31st October 2025 Newsletter We have had another look in the head race especially the control gate which hasn’t been closing properly. After cleaning some silt out of the mechanism it now shuts better.  The wall of the mill beside the headrace has obviously leaked from historical times, with a drain being […]

This article was in the Newsletter 9th October 2026 PORRIDGE OATS October 10th is International Porridge Day. Most people think that porridge is made from oats, but, porridge can be made from a wide range of other grains. But we are going to look at oats. What are porridge oats? Well this is where the […]

Taken from the Newsletter 2nd October 2025 THE MILL IN THE PAST Wouldn’t it be nice to see what the mill looked like back in time! Unfortunately there appears to be very few pictures of the mill known. In fact to date I have only found three pictures that show part of the mill and […]

From the Newsletter 23rd August 2025 THE WATER POWER As mentioned above the dry weather has allowed us to look at some parts of the mill which are sometimes not always accessible. One of these is the tunnel that takes the headrace to the waterwheel. The headrace under normal circumstances has water standing in it […]

UPDATE ON MILL  Taken from the Newsletter 1st August 2025 Well the new bearing appears to be working without problems, so it was decided to replace the shaft on the middle and upper floors so the sack hoist could be re-instated.  This sounds a simple and easy process and we sort of set aside a […]

NEW BEARING IN Taken from the Newsletter 28th July 2025 The call came from Complete Engineering Services on Tuesday evening that they had completed the new bearing. It was collected early Wednesday and after a few trials and tribulations we eventually succeeded to get it back in place. The clearances to allow us to replace […]