Brook Street Valley, Nelson, New Zealand 🌍


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Brook Street Valley: Horizontal mill:

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, Issue III, 15 February 1845

A flour mill is on the point of completion in the town, in a brick building; the wheel horizontal, on the plan of Baxter and Stirratt's patent, turned by water supplied by a lead (tunnelled 44 yards, open 110, and raised on wooden posts 242 yards) from the stream in Brook Street Valley; it will work one pair of stones; fall 19 feet.



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