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This typical Lincolnshire brick tower mill is powered by five patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail. It was built in 1813, and worked by wind until 1964.

This fine old building houses a large water-mill, which like most of Norfolk's water-mills has a hidden undershot wheel.

At this time, Nether Alderley water mill was still the estate mill for the Stanley estate.

The furthermost crosses a ruined leat, a channel carrying water to a nearby mill.

The black-painted post mill with four patent sails is turned to the wind manually by a tailpole. Located near to a golf course, it was built in about 1765 and ceased work in about 1870.

To add to this, rickets and tuberculosis were endemic amongst mill workers and smallpox was rife.

The majority of Nailsworth's buildings are less than 250 years old, built for the workers who had a hard life in the local mills.

The corn mill became a fulling mill in 1636 and remains of old stone fulling tanks can still be seen.

We are looking inland from boats belonging to crab and lobster fishermen William Williams and his eldest son Bob Orchard Williams towards mill buildings and the Cove Hotel (far left).

Mills can be seen in the valley on the left, but the rural beauty of Whitworth is evident in this scene which was taken from Hopwood Barn Farm, sometimes known as Upwood Barn.

The village was laid out from 1790 by mill owner Samuel Greg to house his mill workers, and was one of a number built in east Cheshire by industrialists.

Built in the early 18th century, this post mill stopped grinding corn in 1897, and deteriorated badly after this photograph was taken.

The Old Mill C1955 The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

This is taken from Old Kirton Road, looking towards the capped top of the mill, now Mill Close.

St Osyth once had thriving lime-kilns and maltings, as well as wharves and a tide-mill. There was already a corn-mill here in 1413.

Our photographic tour starts some four or five miles from the traditional source of the Thames in this delightful Cotswold stone village, through which the young river flows as little more than a vigorous

This is a wonderful view of the old mill at Shiplake. The top gate of the lock is closed, and the unusual three sluices can be seen as a rowing skiff leaves the chamber.

This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred. The photograph shows the mill in full working order.

The rear of the mill is behind the trees on the left; note the two sluice gates, one of which is in the open position.

Until it was destroyed by fire in 1963, Horstead Mill processed locally-grown corn into flour and animal feed, which was then transported downstream by wherry.

The boat-shaped cap is characteristic of Norfolk mills. The mill was built in 1859, replacing an earlier one that had been destroyed by fire.

This early cotton mill in the valley of the River Wye was the scene, if the propaganda is to be believed, of some of the worst horrors of the exploitation of child labour in the 19th century.

The present building was constructed in the 18th century, but on the site of a mill listed in the Domesday survey of 1086.

In the background we can see John Webb's Mill - it was named after the owner of the land on which it was built. It dates from 1804, but was derelict by the 1950s.