Mills in Hinderwell Parish

Two group members recently attended a two day WEA Special Day School on Mills and their Development.  The course covered topics such as the nature of grain and how man overcame the problem of extracting its nutritional components, the start of arable farming, the development of querns, harnessing water power and development of water mills, overcoming the problems associated with windmills, the role of the millwright, and the impact of the roller mill.  The second day was spent visiting Bilsdale Mill where a complete restoration is planned, and the working Tocketts Mill at Guisborough.

Royal George Mill, Hinderwell
Built by Isacc Moon in 1820, also miller at Dalehouse Water Mill.
Seven storeys high, powered by four sails, later by steam engine in 1870.
Machinery dismantled in 1915, stone removed from site in 1960's.

 

Dalehouse Water Mill
Two millstones were powered by water carried across a wooden aqueduct (race)
from Newton and Roxby becks.  Used as a flour mill and for grinding meal.
Ceased working in 1927.

Horse drinking from Dalehouse Mill race.

Foreshore Walk, Staithes

As part of this term's project on Oceans, Seton School pupils, accompanied by John Buglass, Kevin Cale and group members, enjoyed an informative walk along the foreshore at Staithes in search of relics relating to the fishing and ironstone industries, and as well as looking at marine life, fossils and the geology of the cliffs.

Fossils from millions of years ago

Man-made feature - a Hully - used for storing live bait for the next day's fishing

Pupils stand in the post holes of the old Staithes Dock, to show it's length and direction

Exploring an old ironstone mining location