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Coppice Mill, Stone,

At one time there were ten mills in the Moddershall Valley which provided material for the pottery industry. This is Coppice Mill on Longton Road, also known as Shardlow's Mill. In the eighteenth ...

Corn Mill, Burton-upon-Trent

The Corn Mill, Newton Road, Burton-upon-Trent.

Corn mill, Mayfield

A postcard view of the mill race and Frank Wright's corn mill on the River Dove at Mayfield, looking south from Hanging Bridge. The mill was demolished in 1922 and the worker's cottages to its right ...

Corn Mill, Rocester

The mill is a multi-storey building with under shot water wheel. The weir is at front in the centre, as is the sluice gate. The road bridge runs from left to right over the river. Two small boys are sitting ...

Corn Mill, Stafford Gaol

The corn mill was built in the 1860s to grind corn for the prisoners' bread. The mill was powered by a treadwheel which was worked by prisoners; this was situated at the rear of the mill, in the building ...

Coton Mill, Gnosall

This steam corn mill is claimed to be the source of self-raising flour. The mill is situated on the Shropshire Union Canal at Newport Road Bridge, Coton, was built by one of the Wilder family in 1833. ...

Dains Mill, Upper Hulme

Thomas Hine loading corn at Dains Mill, Upper Hulme. The water powered mill at Dains Mill dates back to around 1600. Four generations of the Hines family worked the mill from 1802. For a while, the ...

Dairy workers, Fole Dairy, near Uttoxeter

preparation of condensed milk in the old mill building at Fole Dairy. Fole dairy occupied the site of Fole Mill, originally built in 1771 for Henry Copestake. The Dairy opened in the 1920s and was ...

Deepmore Mill, Shareshill

Deepmore Mill stands on the Saredon Brook and was in existence in 1775. By 1829 it was owned by the Monckton family and was working as a corn and blade mill. The mill continued in use until about 1900 ...

Dovedale - landscape: sepia wash drawing

'View in Dovedale from the Derbyshire side of the River,' showing a mill and a low waterfall in the foreground, with houses and a large rounded hill beyond. Artist: 'T. P. W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood.]

Doveridge Mill, near Uttoxeter

A postcard view of Doveridge Mill, on the Derbyshire side of the River Dove. On the left there is a man standing by the mill wheel, and centre right a man and a child. This postcard was published by ...

E.B. & W.R. Chapman's Sheepskin Works, Tutbury

E.B. & W.R. Chapman's Sheepskin Works, at the Old Mill, Tutbury. The corn mill in Tutbury was converted to use as a tannery in 1913-14 by E.B. Chapman. His son Walter expaned the business to produce ...

Edial: sepia wash drawing

Showing what appears to be a ruined barn near a stream. Anonymous, [Henry Curzon Allport.]

Ellastone Mill

Essington Windmill

This photograph taken in the 1920s is almost certainly Essington Windmill, Staffordshire's only post-mill All that remains today is the base and central post. It believed to have been built by Henry ...

Essington Windmill

Originally built in 1681 by Henry Vernon, it was rebuilt with a brick roundhouse in the late 18th century. It worked with four common sails and two pairs of stones until the 1880s. It deteriorated badly ...

Essington Windmill

View of the ruined windmill at Essington. Originally built in 1681 by Henry Vernon, it was rebuilt with a brick roundhouse in the late 18th century. It worked with four common sails and two pairs of ...

Etruria works: water colour painting

Showing a view of a large factory by a canal. The factory is a well-balanced building of many sections with a domed block at each end. There is a bridge to the left, then a kiln and offices, with a ...