Moving Parts

Although this engine generated less output than a modern ride-on mower, its life story reveals part of the agricultural, industrial and mining history of Rockley. The engine was installed in the western end of J.C. Stanger’s newly built flour mill in Rockley which started operation in 1862. This engine was powered by steam generated by […]

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A Place of Peace and Companionship

The peaceful setting depicted here is painted in oils directly onto the east wall of the old Rockley Mill. The artist, Edmund Ernest Edgar (c.1872–1965), completed the mural in October 1932 in readiness for the first meeting of the Rockley Branch of Toc H, a Christian social organisation and movement. Although the first Toc H […]

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