Flour Power

Down on the Avon by the Hereford Street bridge stands a wooden replica water wheel mounted on stone supports on Mill Island.

This was once the site of a flourmill, built by Daniel Inwood in 1859, and a bronze plaque sits in garden plot on the river bank looking onto wheel.

From May 1894 to Sept. 1895 it was used as a men's shelter, known as the Avon Refuge, run by the Baptist pastor Willam Birch. On 17 June 1897 the island was conveyed by Lane to the Christchurch City Council, with the building was dismantled and sold two months later.