Register with a State Classification. It is located in Turner Court off Sproat Street at Portarlington on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Melways map reference 239 E2.
Visitors are most welcome.
F irst settlers in the Port Phillip District needed grain for the staples of life, and found the Bellarine Peninsula suitable for grain growing. The first flour mill was built at Drysdale, but the difficulty of land transport made Portarlington's water access attractive, and its handsome stone, steam flour mill, was built in 1857. It was a substantial sandstone building and equipment was steam powered. Andrew McWilliams, a Geelong municipal engineer, designed the building, which was built by T.H Widdicombe, a local identity, from stone quarried on site, and beams from a large stand of blue gum at Swan Bay, now extinct. Within a year the completed mill was open for business, and a short jetty built to facilitate loading of the small traders which carried the flour to Melbourne and to Tasmania.