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The House Mill Since 1776

Gallery

The mill in pictures

The building inside and out, and a few glimpses of Three Mills through the years.

The House Mill and Clock Mill across the tidal basin, with daffodils on the grassy green in spring.
Marathon · CC BY-SA 2.0
The long brick frontage on a sunny day, with visitors walking past and café tables outside.
Robert Lamb · CC BY-SA 2.0
The timber-clad rear of the House Mill above the tidal river at low water.
Jim Osley · CC BY-SA 2.0
The House Mill under scaffolding during restoration work.
N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0
Looking down through a hatch to one of the mill's water-wheel pits.
David Hallam-Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
Surviving iron milling machinery inside the tide mill.
Chris Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0
The long brick frontage of the House Mill with white shutters and blue tie-plates.
© The Gentle Author
The House Mill reflected in the river below its frontage.
The House Mill and Clock Mill seen across the water under a blue sky.
The Miller's House blue front door in its brick frontage.
The timber milling floor lined with great wooden grain tuns.
The dim interior of the mill with iron and timber grinding machinery.
Grain sacks and chutes against a brick wall, lit by warm light.
© The Gentle Author
An old workbench with leather gloves and tools in low light.
© The Gentle Author
Close-up of a wooden grain tun bound with iron inside the mill.
© The Gentle Author
View through an old window to the Clock Mill towers opposite.
© The Gentle Author
The café counter with espresso machine, chalkboard menu and fruit.
A 19th-century watercolour of Three Mills seen from the river.
A historic photograph of the mill from the canal, chimney smoking.
A historic print of Three Mills with a horse and cart and boats.
A 1930s photograph of the mills seen across the water.
A sepia photograph of a horse-drawn J & W Nicholson distillery cart.
A wooden crate stencilled Three Mills Bonded Warehouses Ltd, Bromley-by-Bow.
The mill courtyard with a Victorian-style lamp post.

Photographs credited to a photographer with a “CC BY-SA 2.0” link come from Geograph and are reused under the Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 licence. Images credited to The Gentle Author and Tony Morrison were carried over from the Trust's previous website — please confirm reuse rights before publishing (see the notes for the Trust).