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Woodbridge Tide Mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England is a rare example of a tide mill whose water wheel still turns.
The mill has been preserved and is open to the public, its machinery reflects the skills and achievements of the early Industrial Revolution. The mill is a three storey building constructed from wood. Externally it is clad in white Suffolk boarding and has a Gambrel roof. The reservoir constructed for demonstration purposes is roughly half an acre in extent, the original 7-acre (28,000 m2) one is now a marina. It is a Grade I listed building.
The first recording of a tide mill on this site was in 1170; it is unknown how many mills have stood here. The mill, which was operated by the local Augustinian priory in the Middle Ages, was acquired by Henry VIII at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.
By the outbreak of World War II the mill was one of the few still operating. In 1957 it closed as the last commercially operating tide mill in Britain. In 1968 the derelict mill was purchased by Mrs Jean Gardner and a restoration programme was launched. It was opened to the public five years later in 1973.
The church in Dedham can be seen on the horizon. It also appears in some of John Constable's paintings. I took this at about 6:00 AM one gorgeous morning in late June. One of the most perfect walks I've ever taken, with a wonderful breakfast of kedgeree and stone ground porridge waiting for me back at the room.
The Stour forms the boundary between Suffolk and Essex here.
~*What if I had a thing on the side, made you cry,
Would the rules change up or would they still apply
If I played you like a toy? Sometimes, I wish I could act like a boy.*~ ;]]
Plucks Gutter is a small hamlet in Kent, where the Little Stour and Great Stour rivers meet. During the Middle Ages, the two rivers met the Wantsum Channel at Stourmouth, but the combined rivers now (called the River Stour downstream from Plucks Gutter) flow onward to the sea via Sandwich to Pegwell Bay near Ramsgate, leaving Plucks Gutter some six miles in a straight line and ten by river from the English Channel.
This was navigable by large vessels to Canterbury until the 1600s, but a series of events caused the two mile wide channel here to silt up, and this is what is left
The hamlet is named after a Dutch Drainage Engineer called Ploeg, whose grave can be seen in All Saints Church, West Stourmouth. Ploeg being the Dutch for a plough, the hamlet almost certainly takes its origins from the Dutch Protestant tradition of draining marshland by creating a ploughed ditch. No doubt, the Dutchman was named after his craft.
History
Just a mile upstream from the Dog and Duck Inn[1] Plucks Gutter is 'Blood Point', the scene of King Alfred's famous defeat of a Viking invasion force and often taken to be the Royal Navy's first successful engagement of an enemy. In 1821-23, a notorious North Kent Gang of smugglers made use of Pluck's Gutter. One account from a Revenue Customs Officer recalls how they travelled some fourteen miles, on foot, through Trenleypark Wood to Stodmarsh, Then via Grove Corner to Pluck's Gutter where they crossed the river by the ferry and onward northeast to Mount Pleasant near Acol then up to Marsh Bay – the former name for what is modern-day Westgate-on-Sea
you never know who shows up to RnB Live Hollywood, we were graced with an interview by The Magic Man himself, one of the greatest players to wear the Purple and Gold of the Los Angeles Lakers, #32 himself, Irving "Magic" Johnson.
Mid tide, looking downstream from Chatham Dockyard. The Queens Stairs are where Admiral Nelson joined his ship, about 200 metres downstream id number 2 drydock where HMS Victory was built, and floated out. She was never launched, as the Medway is too narrow here for large vessels to be launched, else they end on the mud opposite at Whitewall Creek
This is looking east, but as I have no record of time or date, it could have been early in the day as this was copied from a slide