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A Miller's Workshop has been reconstructed in the Garner
exhibition area. Many of the items on display have been
transferred from the mill workshop and would have been used by the
past millers of New Hall Mill while others have been donated by
visitors.
Millers had to be adept at many skills besides milling, in
order to keep the mill running, and the millers at New Hall Mill
were no exception. When the waterwheel shaft broke, the miller
simply 'set-to' and repaired it himself, and it is still working
many years later.
In these pictures, a 'stone nut' with wooden
teeth set in a cast iron frame rests in the middle of the
workbench. Against the left wall are a hand-cranked pillar drill
and a board with wrenches. Various tools are scattered around the
workbench while above, hanging from the roof, is a belt strainer,
used when fitting new belts, and a roll of leather belting. On the
right wall, saws hang from a rack; another rests in the wooden
frame below, set up ready for sharpening. Elsewhere are wooden
planes, drill braces and bits, a paraffin blowlamp, soldering
irons and G-clamps.
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