A virtual tour of Stracey Arms Drainage Mill

Join us on a (virtual) guided tour of Stracey Arms Drainage Mill. This tour was created as part of the 2020 Heritage Open Days events. Using archive photographs, we tour the mill, examine the machinery and explain its function.
Stracey Arms Drainage Mill - located between Acle and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk - was closed to the public during 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions and ongoing restoration work as part of The Mill and the Marsh Folk project.
This virtual guide was created using photographs taken before the restoration work began, when the cap, stocks, brakewheel, etc., were all still in position. The tour is an opportunity to see inside the mill and discover how it worked to move water off the Halvergate Marshes.
The Mill and the Marsh Folk project is generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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[@timothyjones4950]

How is it that such an interesting film, about such an interesting subject has so few views and likes?? Since I was a child I've hoped to one day see one of these magnificent monuments to mankind's endeavours to drain the land working as they were intended too. Good video. Did this one always use the turbine pump rather than scoop wheel?

[@NorfolkWindmillsTrust]

We're glad you enjoyed the film. We believe the turbine was installed when the mill was built in 1883. However, we also know that there was a previous mill on the site before this and that probably used a scoopwheel.

[@timothyjones4950]

@@NorfolkWindmillsTrust thank you for your reply. Interesting to note the iron machinery, and yet they still used wood at Horsey some years later. (It has woodworm I notice. ) although I understand the iron works connection. Also in the description of the tower it says it's built on piles, are they wooden?? And how deep do they go?? I have noticed quite a few of the towers leaning these days.Sorry for all the questions. I'm just interested. There's something lovely about old mechanical functional buildings like that. Especially when powered by wind, as it offsets the maintenance cost to some extent when compared to a steam pump today as a heritage apparatus. Best regards, Tim.

[@gwyneddboom2579]

That’s a very nice video! I can’t help but wonder if it can still function like it once did... it’s very interesting for me to see a British windmill from the inside, as I’m a miller-in-training in the Netherlands.

[@NorfolkWindmillsTrust]

Many thanks. The mill is currently being restored as part of 'The Mill and the Marsh Folk' project. It is hoped that it will eventually be restored to full-working order. An electric pump now does the job but it would be wonderful to see the mill working again. We hope to add other videos about Norfolk windmills in the near future. Our email address is: [e-mail] if you would like to get in contact.