The Art of the Wooden Tooth
Awakening a Sleeping Giant at Heron Corn Mill
Near Far Heron
Follow along as millwrights Stuart and Steve take on exciting, interesting, confounding, and important heritage mill projects across Northern England!
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The Evolution of the Millwright: From Wooden Gears to Hydro Turbines
If you walk along the River Bela today, you’ll hear two distinct sounds: the rhythmic clatter of 18th-century machinery inside the Mill and the steady, low hum of our 100kW Kaplan hydroelectric turbine.
The Millwright's Dilemma: Pricing a Priceless Craft
The True Cost of Heritage
Two belting lads
Belt tightening at the Heron Corn Mill
Gayle Mill, Hawes
At times a cotton mill, flax mill, wool mill and saw mill, now a great heritage site
Kirk Mill
A community asset dating back to the industrial revolution
Warwick Bridge Mill
Cracking t’oats, Gromit.
Looking after the launder
It needs fettlin'!
Maintenance
The wheels on the bus go round and round...