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Victoria Flour Mill - derelict water wheel
Image ref
DCDD000401
Credit
Geraldine Holland, Photographer
photographer
Holland, Geraldine
ImageDate
1998
Location
Mill Street
Town
Bakewell
About this image
The wheel would have been submerged into the flow of water diverted from the River Wye via a millstream. The sluices on the left would regulate the flow of water and the wheels movement would then turn machinery within the mill to grind corn into flour.
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