Whiting mill

Thwaite Mills on the outskirts of Leeds started as a fulling mill, was later rebuilt as a seed mill, then became a flint grinding mill supplying local potteries with materials. The business later diversified into producing whiting (ground chalk) and then progressed to the manufacture of putty. The final production was in 1977 when the adjacent wier on the River Aire collapsed and made the waterwheels driving the plant unworkable. Since then the weir has been rebuilt and the mills are run as a museum by Leeds City Council. In this view is a Broadbent jaw crusher which fed chalk to the adjacent grinding mill. One of the two waterwheels can just be seen behind the crusher.