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A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation. The brick tower is tarred black for extra weather protection.

Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.

The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.

Situated on the river Sence to the south of the town, the mill was first recorded around the mid 12th century, and by the early 17th century a windmill had also been built a little to its north.

Pullman's Westbrook Mill produced soft, chamois type leathers; Gay & Co in Ockford Road worked on small skins such as rabbit; and Rea and Fisher's by the railway, the heavier hides.

In 1950 the wool industry was still important to Yorkshire, where 1,123 woollen and worsted mills employed around 150,000.

In 1950 the wool industry was still important to Yorkshire, where 1,123 woollen and worsted mills employed around 150,000.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

A few yards south of the paper mill, the trackway crosses the River Rib through a gently flowing ford.

Now long-disused, this is one of many 19th-century pump mills built to lift water from the drained marshes. The mill has now lost its sails, but not its inverted boat-style cap.

Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.

Now long-disused, this is one of many 19th-century pump mills built to lift water from the drained marshes. The mill has now lost its sails, but not its inverted boat-style cap.

A decade after this photograph was taken, the picturesque weatherboarded mill on the River Cray was burnt down.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Windmill Hill is near Herstmonceux.

The village of Quernmore is three miles south-east of Lancaster. Quernmore Park Hall lies just over a mile north of the village.

The brooks then powered a fulling mill, which Barker Bros extended for bleaching, dyeing and finishing.

A small hollow post wind pump for land drainage, the mill had shuttered sails and was turned to the wind by twin tail vanes. The shutters in the sails were set manually, one sail at a time.

In 1950 the wool industry was still important to Yorkshire, where 1,123 woollen and worsted mills employed around 150,000.

For centuries a strong tide has swept up Wootton Creek to work the ancient mill - one of the very few tidally- powered mills in the world.

This was the former water mill. Smartened up, with its brickwork painted, the mill is now a house.

Windmill Hill is near Herstmonceux. It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole.

Around 1855, Charles Veasey built a steam-powered mill manufacturing linseed oil and cattle cake.

On reaching the Old Mill, the footpath across the fields from Lyme becomes a double-hedged dirt track through a carpet of wild garlic into Uplyme village. 17th-century buildings and the wooden paddles