Withywindle Mill
The layout was an entry for the Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society internal competition, for 2007, to build a pizza layout! All entries were displayed at ExpoNG in October 2007.
Withywindle Mill is a run down and decrepid Fulling Mill. Fulling involved two processes - scouring and milling (thickening). These are followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, as can be seen to the right of the mill, and held onto those frames by tenterhooks. It is from this process that we derive the phrase being on tenterhooks as meaning to be held in suspense. The area where the tenters were erected was known as a tenterground.
Originally, this was literally pounding the cloth with the fuller's feet (whence the description of them as 'walkers'), or with his hands or a club. However, from the medieval period, it was often carried out in a water mill.
