Unfortunately, few images exist of the interior of the mill when it was still operating. Most of the photographs on this page have been taken in order to create a record of the mill as it is in the twenty-first century. Although no longer a working mill, most of the machinery, apart from the water wheel, is intact.
If you have any other photographs of Topcliffe Mill, please email us or add a comment to this page.
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Ground floor, 1930s
Cambridgeshire Collection
The ground floor of the mill in 1939
Cambridgeshire Collection I.20
The ground floor, 1939
Cambridgeshire Collection, I.21
The ground floor, 1939
Cambridgeshire Collection, I.22
Ground floor, 2007
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: the miller's desk, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: sack, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: mangle, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: branding iron with initials MB (Maud Bowen??), December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: chute with leather cover, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: H G Peters' initials carved in beam, with the dates 1887-1897. Herbert Peters' family operated the mill during this period; there is a photograph of them on the other Topcliffe Mill picture gallery on this site. December 2013.
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: H G Peters' initials are also carved in one of the wooden pillars, December 2013.
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Ground floor: vertical shaft showing pit wheel and wallower, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: the vertical shaft and spur wheel
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: there are three pairs of stones, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: the great spur wheel, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: one of the pairs of mill stones with hopper and sack above, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
The sack above the mill stones bears the name, "J Adcock". James Adcock held the lease of the mill from 1875 and it remained leased to the Adcock family until the 1940s. December 2013.
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: wooden housing for boulter or flour dresser, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: work bench, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: rotary wire machine or flour grader, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Oat Roller, First (stone) floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: smutter for cleaning grain, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: moving beam. The wedge (attached by string) can be removed to allow the two cogs to engage. December 2013.
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: shaft above boulter, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
First floor: leather belt above boulter, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Second floor: grain bins, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Third floor: the attic floor, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Third floor: looking down into the bins, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Third floor: looking down into the bins, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
Third floor: the lucam, December 2013
Photograph by Kathryn Betts
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