Description:A postcard view of the mill pool created on the River Sow to drive Walk Mill. Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which was used for fulling or 'walking' cloth, hence the name. The mill was restored in the 1970s and the three-storey wheelhouse retains much of its machinery, including a waterwheel and two grinding pans. The mill once used four pairs of grinding stones, but only two remain.
Walk Mill was designated a Conservation Area by Staffordshire County Council on 10 June 1993, as a means of preserving and enhancing the special architectural and historic interest that has been retained and enriched through its development over the centuries.
This postcard was franked in Eccleshall on 4 September 1963 and sent to an address in Southwick, Sussex.