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A watermill has been grinding corn here since Saxon times. In the 1920's it converted to steam.   

It has recently been renovated as a council tourist attraction and, when it’s working, visitors can watch the machinery and buy the flour. 

As you would expect of an attraction owned by Bedfordshire County Council it is filled with improving activities such as folk, and arts and crafts festivals, and conservation days.  Various commercially unsuccessful artists who have banded together into rackets such as Bedford Arts Forum, Artists Network Bedfordshire, and Bedford Art Society, to name but three, base themselves there.  In return for putting on a few exhibitions and churning out the odd newsletter the council subsidises their rent and gives them grants. 

Of course admission is free, so the mill is mostly closed!  The opening hours in 2005 were Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 1 to 5pm, from April to October.

The takings from visitors buying the flour and the arts and crafts nowhere near cover the costs, so those poor old council taxpayers, who mostly never go near it, have to pay instead.  

However, all is not lost.  It is a fabulous site and with a bit of common sense could surely be made self supporting.  It’s good to learn that the council is trying to get a commercial partner.  

Bromham Mill, Bridge End,
Bromham, Bedford, MK43 8LP
Tel. 01234 824330

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