Brockton Mill - gearing
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Brockton Mill - gearing by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Brockton Mill - gearing
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 13 May 2012
Although the mill lacks a wheel and pond, it does retain this fine hurst framing with a great spur wheel drive to three sets of stones. One stone nut is seen here and is jacked out of engagement. The pit wheel, wallower and great spur wheel can be seen. This is the only real view of the ground floor mechanism that can be achieved. The pit wheel and wallower are metal teeth to metal teeth but the great spur wheels and stone nuts are , surprisingly, wooden teeth to wooden teeth.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.466766
Longitude
-2.994136