 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm standing by the Mill Pond at never orderly mill in Cheshire. It's a National Trust mill So this is the mill pond and here's the mill itself So what I'm going to do I'm going to take you for a quick little tour around the mill so you can see Inside now I've already taken a video of it going so if it's not going when we're in there Then I'll put that in afterwards. So the mill itself The mill pond rather is just here. That's the the sluice there. We can see where the water goes in The area there that's there's no roof on that bit where those people standing That's where the drying floor would have been and we'll go underneath that in a minute. So let's go into the mill Inside it's an overshot Around and there's another water wheel, which you'll see in a minute further down So it's a very unusual milling that the two water will work together So originally the flower would have been taken up on a pulley through that trap door, up to the mill trap door, up to the lot And it would come down this chute and onto this mill strip But now what they do is they put it just in here and They use you can see the flower. They use this millstone here And so that the pulley they use now is this one just here you can see there's a trap door So it's a smaller on a smaller scale, but they can still Produce flower here. What we'll do now we'll go downstairs and have a further look at the workings Come into here now this mill like many others. It's been orders a lot in its life So where we're standing, this is the original height of the floor. Have a look see that door That's why it's such a large step. That's why there's a fireplace there They've had to dig out the floor When they put the more modern machinery now if you have a look you can see all this machinery And it is all working because I saw it going and I do have a video Of it working. You never know they might even switch it all my way Because I've just taken a group in upstairs. It's really quite fascinating All these cogs and everything you can see Those cogs are wooden, which will be much easier to replace Than say a metal cog broke and also there's less risk of fire The other thing I think to mention upstairs is they did sometimes when the water run a bit low The mill could be driven from a steam engine outside So it's mainly a water mill, but it was also partly steamer Just go through the shop So we've now just come down Underneath the mill so you can see the rest of the machinery Now the lower water wheel is just there The other water wheel is behind that wall. Yes, it's quite hard It's not really many places you can see it and then the water eventually Flows out down that stream It's right the way down there Here you get a ready good view of all of the machinery. It's really quite fascinating It was great seeing it going. Like I said, I have got a video, so I'll link that in Get through here now. This is as I briefly mentioned when we were upstairs There was some people standing on what was the drying floor. Well, this is where you lit the fire I'll just show you a bit in a second That's what the big water wheel you can see it here. This is the only place you can actually see it I'm hoping they're gonna Turn it on in a minute, but um Well, well, they'll let the water through and start turning but now I'm gonna take you through here into the kiln So this is where they lit a fire all around the edge of the tunnel where the wood was dried and then The drying would have taken place above So what I'm gonna do is quite small in here So I'll put my hard hat on. This is the first time Henry's adventures has featured Hard hat and we're gonna go into these little tunnels So this is where you just lit the fire and then this is the tunnel which Goes all round where they would have stored the wood. So it's really it's quite exciting but quite small very small So we're just going out back of the fireplace. See how tiny this one is See How big I am it doesn't I only just fit through here Through this one Through this final arch And we're back to where we started So we've gone in the tunnel where they would have dried the wood now back out take my hat off Take my hat off to the National Trust of Wales. We're restoring this mill and we'll go out Here Finish the video by going out the front so you can see the front of the building First We're now out the front of the mill very sunny And there you are you can now see the mill building we were inside It's quite unusual quite big on this side when you see it from behind you can see it's quite small So when we went through the tunnel that was in that brick area there and There would have been a roof on that area where there's the fence that would have been the drying floor so Yeah from never out of the mill near Alderley Edge. I Hope you enjoyed this video, but For finish I'm gonna take you back inside because I think Everything all the equipment is turned All the pulleys everything in action A lot of machinery, a lot of noise, we'll go down to the other bit now and I'll show you that Coming into here You can see all of the equipment turning you can see the water wheel down below us Down there so as I said, it's a really unique water mill in the back of the mills both turning one set of Right Sonating face so Inside the working water mill and never out of it. They're really sorry. I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching Just with the water wheel stops turning Goodbye