2009
• Cap and fan stage completed and lifted onto mill (including
time capsule in the ball finial)
• Toilet installed inside the mill
• Grain bins designed and built by Richie Green
• “New” set of millstones installed
• Stones furniture constructed and installed by millwrights
• Railings round the mill
• Whitewashed interior walls
• Shutter construction started by mill volunteers
• Handrails installed on ladders
New railings
around the mill
New ladders
and handrails
Grain
bins under construction
New brakewheel
reinstalled inside the new cap
Cedar
cladding on cap, prior to painting
Cap being
prepared for lifting back on to the tower
2008
• Lower section of
lime render taken off and re-applied by council
• New floorboards laid on Stones floor
• New ladders constructed from the Ground floor
• Millstones lifted
• Ground floor machinery (hurst frame, tentering gear and kibbler)
all restored or replaced
• New shears ready, cap construction continues
2007
• Structural repairs to first floor beams
• Removal acro prop supports for Stones floor (all 32 of them!)
• 'York Stone' floor laid on ground floor
• Restoration of ground floor machinery and ironwork (ongoing
to November 2007)
• New curb ring craned in
• Scaffolding and Heras fencing removed
• Lime rendering of outer walls completed
• Ground floor window shutters installed
2006
• Scaffolding erected
• External black paint and render removed
• Bricked up windows & door opened up
• Three phase electricity supply installed
• New oak doors and windows installed
• Most of the external renovation completed & new lime
render starting to be applied
• Cap, brakewheel, iron cross and shears removed
Dismantling
the old cap
Our millwrights
at work
An example of the poor state of the tower brickwork
