Three Mills & Stratford
London. Thu 2 Mar 2017
North from Twelvetrees Crescent a private bridge leads into the gasworks
site
Lea Navigation at left and the tidal River Lea (Bow Creek) at right
Three Mills seen under the railway bridges
Two channels of the tidal river merge here
Three Mills - a tide mill dating from 1776 (though on the site of
earlier tide mills mentioned in the Domesday Book)
on the Three Mills Wall River. The largest tide mill in the UK and
the largest surviving in Europe
if not the world.
Part of the site was Nicholson's Brewery, and behind the building
on the right is Three Mills TV studio
High water above the mill - and a risk of flooding
a huge area by Sugar Mill Lane is currently being redeveloped
Another sculpture on Short Wall by by Alec Peever in Three Mills Green
is a memorial to Distillery workers killed in 1901.
Unveiled on the centenary it was moved to this position recently. Three
men died going to the aid of a fourth who had been overcome by the lack
of oxygen at the bottom of a well they were investigating.
A dam keeps the water back from the channel where boats are moored
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