Richard Goodman using a bill to dress the millstone
A bell held back by a strap weighed down by the grain in the hopper. This one is from Redbournbury Mill
Main driving wheel mounted on the upright shaft, transmitting stones via the stone nuts
Horizontal gear wheel mounted above the great spur wheel and often used to drive auxiliary machinery including the sack hoist
The pit wheel is driven by the waterwheel and is usually on the inside of the building and has similar diameter to the waterwheel.
A device for dressing flour, employing a cylinder of cloth or latterly of silk when in a flour mill and a wire mesh when in a grist mill
The turned wooden handle for use with a Bill.
The mechanism for making fine adjustments to the gap between millstones.
Adjusting device altering angle of shoe to regulate flow of grain from the hopper
Timber framework that supports the stones and encloses the main gearing
Hard steel tool like a double edged wedge used for dressing millstones
An open wooden funnel-like container holding grain prior to its discharge to the stones via the shoe
Wooden framework which supports hopper over stones
Tapering wooden trough taking grain from the hopper
Spindle which strikes shoe to distribute grain into eye of stones. Sometimes known as "Dandelion" or Chatterer"
The gap between millstones can be adjusted to give control over the fineness of the grain. When the stones meet they literally grind to a halt
The damsel is a spindle that strikes the shoe to make grain drop into the eye of the millstones. There's a strap that runs across the hopper and is held down by the weight of the grain. When the grain runs out, the strap springs up and causes a bell to ring each time the damsel strikes the shoe. The ringing bell is called a 'damsel in distress' and the miller would have a bell with a different ring on each hopper so that he knew which grain had run out.