Old Mill
Stone tower windmill from the colony's earliest years, its timber gearing still intact inside.
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This guide to the Old Mill on South Perth's Mill Point follows engineer William Shenton, who raised a stone tower windmill here in eighteen thirty-five to feed the young Swan River Colony. It traces the tuart-timber gearing built inside it, the sails that turned above the river, and the decades of hotels, dance halls and neglect the building passed through afterward. Stand at the base of the tower to see the stonework that has outlasted every use it was put to.
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