Photograph of Durngate Mill, Durngate Place, Winchester
Taken about 1870
There were three or four mills at Winchester as early as A.D. 959, and there has been one at Durngate since at least the thirteenth century. Mill buildings did not tend to last more than 200 years because they were generally built on water-logged foundations, and the vibration of the machinery also took its toll. This building dates from the late eighteenth century and grinding continued here until 1946; it was demolished in 1967.
In this Victorian image several men and boys stand on the road in front of the mill while one boy peers into the water of the head race.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album of his work.
