Links to main activities at the bone mill since work started Latest
26/1/15 Article in EDP about HLF grant to restore bone mill
26/3/15 First volunteer work party
30/4/15 Dennis discovered elevator
8/6/15 Brickwork contractors started this week
10/6/15 Schedule of day school workshops announced
27/6/15 Skull found, two new steel sections fitted to water wheel
8/7/15 Water wheel turned with chains by steelwork contractors
26/7/15 Bone mill stand at Narborough Fair
30/8/15 Riverside wall rebuilt
10/9/15 First HOD visits, last sections of steel fitted on wheel
18/9/15 Fertilizer report from NRM labs from powder sample
26/9/15 EDP article about bone mill HLF grant
3/10/15 Water Wheel turned by raising river level
29/10/15 Tesco staff first day of helping, covering site for winter
14/11/15 Gate frame taken to site and fitted
21/11/15 BBQ and finishing gate frame, Gator truck bought
24/11/15 Lynn News article about Adam Taylor
26/11/15 Site covered with Geotex fabric for winter
10/12/15 Clearing out railway wagon for visitor centre
12/12/15 Railway wagon moved to Maltings for refurbishment
16/12/15 Scaffolding removed from around water wheel
7/1/16 Dennis stripped & refurbished elevator over Christmas
12/2/16 Radio carbon dating results show age of skull
13/3/16 Norfolk & Friends Photographic Group visit
19/3/16 Culvert uncovered
26/3/16 Railway Wagon taken to mill
2/4/16 Fred rebuilt end wall
21/4/16 Two Historic photos show chimney, covered brick floors with soil and grass seed
23/4/16 Wagon opening ceremony BBQ, Grindstones put beside river, elevator, table & bridge fitted
25/4/16 Lynn News article about Wagon Opening
30/4/16 EDP article about skull & railway wagon
5/5/16 Dennis made skull display box
2/7/16 Rebuilding bypass channel walls
14/11/16 Skull Isotope analysis results back
26/1/17 Pumped out cistern and took photos inside
2/3/17 Upstream floor now fully uncovered
21/4/17 Breckland society visit, aerial views taken with drone
27/4/17 Tony Mugridge reported on our historic bricks
1/5/17 Docking History Society Fair display
15/6/17 Experiment turning wheel with pump
17/6/17 BBQ Great Get Together, canoe races
22/6/17 Curved pit in machinery area discovered
3/8/17 Frank cleaned mitre gates staunch floor in river
17/8/17 to 31/8/17 Water feed pipe installed for turning the water wheel
9/9/17 Water wheel first turned with pump at Heritage Open Days
5/10/17 Wall built to hide water feed pipe, trench wall on river side bricked up
19/10/17 Soil filled in over water pipe, upper staunch cleaned to expose lock stones
16/11/17 Site covered, glass viewing panel fitted, soil behind wall, tunnel near blacksmiths uncovered, trench wall finished
30/11/17 Tesco Bags of Help have awarded us £4,000 to build visitor centre
7/4/18 Little Mill visitor centre started, Suffolk Norfolk Life article
14/4/18 Model of bone mill made by David Turner
28/4/18 Little Mill visitor centre moved to site
20/9/18 Saladin box from maltings put outside mill, new footpath sign made
18/4/19 Viewing walkway taken to site and assembled
6/5/19 Feature explanation boards made by Dennis
23/5/19 Donation box made by Graham, Lynn News article about mills weekend
19/9/20 Socially Distanced Heritage Open Days held to comply with Covid regulations
8/02/21 First pictures taken of bone mill in the snow
12/6/21 Bone mill had a stall at Narborough Community Centre Open Day
20/8/21 NCF Grant obtained for Wildflower Meadow
19/11/21 Breckland Green Community Grant received
1/1/22 Historic 1917 picture of Airmen swimming in river from lock
21/4/22 New Shed taken to site and assembled
14/5/22 Nest box cameras show activity
11/6/22 Start of earthworks for wildflower meadow
25/6/22 Earthworks completed for wildflower meadow
3/9/22 Upstream Brick Floor covered with soil for Cornfield Flower area
1/10/22 Wildflower Meadow seed sown
23/10/22 Shipping Container removed from site
2/11/22 Solar Panels fitted to visitor centre
22/12/22 Green Grant Completed, Barn Owl seen in next field
2/1/23 Riverside Wall Collapsed
12/1/23 Started making small Greenhouse
20/5/23 Wildflower meadow starts to flower
1/6/23 Blacksmith's area covered over
10/6/23 Fallen wall debris cleared from river
16/7/23 Bone mill had a stand at Narborough Fair
21/9/23 Hay Cut and Re-Seeding of Wildflower Meadow
4/1/24 River floods track and brick floor
9/5/24 Bone mill volunteers awarded Unsung Hero certificates
8/8/24 Greenhouse converted to timber store
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